*BSD News Article 49319


Return to BSD News archive

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.