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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!news From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,neosoft.users.freebsd Subject: PnP sound -- a better way (was Re: Cool! Soundcard finally works!) Date: 9 Feb 1997 17:15:13 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 38 Message-ID: <5dl0n1$rpv@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <5de7qf$glf@uuneo.neosoft.com> <5debnn$if6@uuneo.neosoft.com> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.167.230 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35250 In article <5debnn$if6@uuneo.neosoft.com>, conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes: > In article <5de7qf$glf@uuneo.neosoft.com>, > conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes: [ a lot of stuff about using fbsdboot from DOS ] Well, just was reading some docs from the OSS/Free site, and found a *much* better way to approach the problem of initializing Plug-and-Play soundcards. Most of the newer Pentium machines (mine included) have a BIOS setup option to configure PnP hardware either automatically or manually. Went into my setup, changed from Auto to Manual, told the system that IRQ 5 was "in use" by an ISA card, rebooted the machine, and voila! The BSD boot probe found my sound card! Oh, I also changed my kernel config. The default IRQ for the Soundblaster is 7, whereas mine (an SB-compatible) works on IRQ 5, DMA 1 (I determined this information from DOS/Windows). Also added: options "SBC_IRQ=5" as per the handbook instructions. At last! Now I can boot directly into FreeBSD and have sound. Together with the patch for the ATAPI CD-ROM posted here recently, it's all finally come together. If you'd like to read up on this yourself, get the file ossfree38-beta4-linux21x.tar.gz from the OSS/Free site (ftp://ftp.4front-tech.com/ossfree), unpack it, and take a look at the Readme.cards file. -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads