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#! rnews 1617 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!col.hp.com!csn!gw1.att.com!cnn.Princeton.EDU!usenet From: Lewis Chen <chenl@lasorda.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sound card support question... Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 19:43:23 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3109752B.41C67EA6@lasorda.princeton.edu> References: <DLFvot.MA3@network.com> <4e8vtd$2u3@parody.tecc.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: drysdale.princeton.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) James Raynard wrote: > >Does FreeBSD 2.1 support the SoundBlaster AWE32 value edition > >sound card? I checked the FAQ at www.freebsd.org and it lists > >"Sound Blaster". Does this include the AWE32 also? Thanks. > > Yes, I have one of these and can confirm it works. Here are the relevant > bits of my kernel config file:- > > # Controls all sound devices > controller snd0 > device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 conflicts drq 1 vector sbintr > device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 5 > device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330 > > James I have the same card and I used the above configuration. Everything works fine, except that the kernel wouldn't recognize the midi device. Does anybody have any idea why this happened? The midi works fine when I boot up in window 95, so there is nothing wrong with the card.