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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Of Mice And Multimedia
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 17:18:25 -0500
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc.
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I've been running up against a rather intriguing set of problems in trying
to get a Soundblaster AWE 64 to work under FreeBSD (2.2.1).  Much to my
chagrin, I didn't realize the card was PnP when I bought it (I still have
time to return it, and am *this close* to doing so).

To be as concise as possible, it seems the only way to get FreeBSD to
recognize it is to compile a kernel with all the sound-related IRQs, DMAs,
etc. configured to the card's default settings:

options		SBC_IRQ=5  

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
device opl0     at isa? port 0x388

Only problem is, when I do this, my PS/2-style mouse no longer works under
X.  If I use the sound defaults in LINT, the card isn't recognized.

I've gone over and over this and can't figure out where the conflict is
arising between the soundcard and mouse.  Arggh!

I've also noticed that "cat /dev/sndstat" shows bogus IRQ and port for the
sbxvi0, sbmidi0 and opl0 devices (65535 and <some huge number> --
obviously, -1 in 16 and 32 bits, respectively).  Should I explicitly
declare this stuff in the config or not?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.  I'd really *much* rather get this
thing working than have to return it and get something else.  It's a
fabulous card, really.

By the way, no luck at all with OSS, either.

Damn Plug-and-Play!  I *hate* it!

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Conrad Sabatier		http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads