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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!news-relay.us.dell.com!gater3.sematech.org!news2.amd.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!dolphin.neosoft.com!nobody From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Interactive "probe" utility? (BSD *or* DOS) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:33:53 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <ht1ri5.gb1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.167.69 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:39009 Still fiddling with trying to get my Soundblaster AWE 64 to work under FreeBSD 2.2.1. I've run into one basic problem (mentioned earlier, but here goes again): If I disable PnP in my BIOS, the card is found but my mouse (PS/2 on motherboard) stops working. If I enable PnP, the mouse works, but the card isn't found. Arggh. Catch-22. Oh, as an aside, it seems that it's an absolute *must* to have PnP enabled, even under FreeBSD. I've discovered that this was the cause of those "chattering xterms/syscons" I posted about a while back (or at least it *seems* to be; only happens when PnP is disabled). Wondering if anyone knows of a utility that would let me snoop around and try to determine which IRQs, etc. are being assigned to what by my PnP BIOS. I've tried copying the settings Windows 95 assigns, but apparently Win95 is doing some fancy-schmancy interaction with the BIOS, and this doesn't work under FreeBSD. Even a DOS utility would be welcomed. Thanks. -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads