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From: Pozin Shimon <pozin@math.tau.ac.il>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 won't play and ATAPI support
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 19:31:43 +0200
Organization: Tel Aviv University
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You "caught" my question. I wanted to ask it yesterday, but from the
other end :-)
Actually, when I recompiled the kernel, I could not understand WHY
average user
have to recompile the kernel in order to connect a sound card? O'k, now
I 
understand *why*, I think.

BTW I have another question in the same direction. ATAPI support is not
included in the GENERAL kernel. It means that you have to recompile your
kernel in order to see the ATAPI CDROM, but if you have FreeBSD on
CDROM,
you cannot read it because GENERAL kernel does not support it :-)
How can you exit this situation?

Regards,

Shimon Pozin
mailto:pozin@math.tau.ac.il



Conrad Sabatier wrote:
> 
> In article <590d8d$sm2@news.ziplink.net>,
> Steve Bernacki <steve@zip1.zipnet.net> wrote:
> >I searched around some more and found a suggestion to add several other
> >devices to my kernel.  I added the following:
> >
> >controller      snd0
> >device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 7 conflicts drq 1 vector sbintr
> >device          sbxvi0  at isa? drq 5
> >device          sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330
> ># Yamaha OPL-2/OPL-3 FM - for SB, SB Pro, SB16, PAS
> >device opl0     at isa? port 0x388
> >
> >Recompiled and rebooted.  Now, cat'ing a .au file to /dev/audio begins to
> >play the sound (1.5 seconds or so) but then the card goes quiet and the
> >cat just site there until I control-c out of it.
> 
> I have exactly the same problem.  Tried and tried to work it out a while
> back and finally gave up.  :-(
> 
> I think it's largely the El Crappo Cheapo sound card that came with my
> system.  Too cheap to upgrade, though.  :-)
> 
> If you do find out anything, please let me know!
> 
> --
> Conrad Sabatier                  |
> conrads@neosoft.com              |  Eschew obfuscation.
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