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From: behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 32 PnP in FreeBSD
Date: 3 Jun 1997 21:03:08 GMT
Organization: Grand Valley State University
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Chris Brunner (cjb@efn.org) wrote:

: I have am using a Sound Blaster 32 PnP in FreeBSD ver. 2.2.1and it doesn't 
: play midis.  I can play mods and stuff (s3mod), but midis are noiseless.  
: The program (playmidi) will start, and even display the graphic 'notes' for the song, 
: but no sound comes out.

: I believe there is a problem with the PnP (yuk!) initialation.  The 
: non-PnP OS initialation program is a DOS binary, so I have no way to 
: initialize the card in FreeBSD.

: Has anyone ever dealt with this kind of thing before?  I'd appreciate any 
: information anyone can give me.

First of all, if you can hear mods but not midis, I doubt it's a PnP
issue.  PRobably some other odd config issue.  (I use a GUS myself, so I
can't help you too much with the SB.)  However, if the card follows
standard PnP stuff, you can use the PnP kernel patch from the xperimnt-al
stuff in most current FreeBSD dists.

--
  Matt Behrens
  Zigg Computer Services
  zigg@iserv.net
  http://www.iserv.net/~zigg/