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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD + SB AWE-64
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 10:09:32 -0500
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc.  
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In article <5m0c3u$ei5$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
Niels Endres  <nendres@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>  Has anybody sucessfully got the AWE-64 Midi working properly under FreeBSD?
>I've have the isapnp driver installed, supposedly configuring the card to
>all correct io/irq/drq's.  I can get the sb0 part of the config to detect
>the card correctly, however my awe0 line just returns with Awe-32 not
>detected.

Yes, I *think* (not sure, haven't plowed through the code) it's looking
for some "signature" bytes to identify the AWE32.  No doubt, the signature
of the AWE64 differs.

>  Anyone have any suggestions?

Wish I did.  Hey, you're doing better than me; I still haven't gotten my
AWE64 recognized at all.  :-)
-- 
Conrad Sabatier
http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads