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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!van-bc!vanbc.wimsey.com!cynic.portal.ca!curt From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: What sound cards and file formats does NetBSD/i386 support? Date: 24 Aug 1995 02:45:25 GMT Organization: Internet Portal Services, Ltd. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <41gp45$koo@wolfe.wimsey.com> References: <41gn1b$bin@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca In article <41gn1b$bin@agate.berkeley.edu>, Ben Cottrell <benco@ucsee.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >Failing that, can I get *any* 16 bit, 44.1 KHz, stereo cards to work >with NetBSD/i386? I've had no luck getting anything, even a basic 8-bit SoundBlaster, to work on NetBSD 1.0/i386. I hear that things are much improved in -current, however. One thing to watch out for is the great number of cards that have software-configurable I/O ports, interrupts, etc., and need to be configured every time the system comes up cold (from either cycling the power or a hard reset). If the driver isn't capable of configuring the card, you'll have to boot DOS first, use the program that came with the card to do the configuration, and then soft-boot (with ctrl-alt-del) into NetBSD. The ProSonic and the Turtle Beach Montecarlo are two examples of cards like this. cjs -- Curt Sampson curt@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.