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From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can someone help me get my soundblaster going
Date: 17 Jan 1996 00:31:45 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD box
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In article <30FB74F6.41C67EA6@indy.net>, von  <von@indy.net> wrote:
>i'm running freebsd 2.0.5 and i cant find anything to get my 
>soundblaster working can someone please help

The kernel provided by the installation doesn't have support for sound
built in. See section 5 of the handbook for details on how to build your
own customised kernel. There's some useful info on how to configure the
Sound Blaster support in section 5.3.9, for example what to do if your
card is not on IRQ7.

>for somereason my mouse works under x-windows but i cant select alot 
>of the menu choices -- in xman for example-- but it works fine for
>things like netscape.

This is a well-known problem with the version of X that came with 2.0.5 
- the answer is, believe it or not, to turn off NumLock! (2.1.0 comes 
with a later version of X in which this is fixed).

James

(PS sorry for not mailing you - the other end of my PPP link seems to be
having some problems with mail at the moment).
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