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From: "L. Scott Emmons" <scotte@center.uscs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster32 and FreeBSD
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 09:48:52 -0800
Organization: CableData R&D Center, El Dorado Hills, CA, USA
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To: Brian Park <bpark@ece.uci.edu>
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Brian Park wrote:
>
> I have been told by FreeBSD staff that SoundBlaster32 is not supported.
> DOes any one know otherwise, or have heard of any upcoming drivers for
> it? I am getting really bored of no sound coming out of my speakers.
> Please e-mail me if you have any info on this.
It depends on how you define "supported" :-) I guess the PNP stuff isn't
ready yet, but I did discover a kludgy way around this. What I do is boot
first into DOS and run the "ctpnp" DOS program, which will configure the
card (this program is on the SB32 install disks). Then, I run the
"fbsdboot" program, which allows you to boot FreeBSD from DOS.
The card will look just like a normal SB16 to FreeBSD. I.e., you
won't get the extra features that the card has, but it will work. Of
course, you also need to build a kernel with the SB16 support, and set
all the addresses and what-not to exactly what the "ctpnp" program sets
everything to.
Hope this helps, Good luck!
-Scott
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L. Scott Emmons | CableData R&D Center - El Dorado Hills, CA, USA
Sr. Software Engineer | Systems Group, Systems Development Dept
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