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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sound card not detected
Date: 23 Jun 1997 11:43:53 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5ofmiu$92i@nuscc.nus.sg>,
kartik@mirage.irdu.nus.sg (Kartik Narayan) writes:
>: You may have better luck with:
>
>: device sb0 at isa? port 0x240 conflicts irq 5 conflicts drq 1 vector sbintr
> ^^^^^
>: device sbxvi0 at isa? port 0x240 conflicts irq 5 conflicts drq 5 vector sbintr
>: device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330
>
> don't you mean 0x220 in my case?
Yep - sorry. It's 0x240 on my laptop.
>: You have no io-address for your sbxvi0, and you must tell both that the
>: io-address conflicts as well as the IRQ. I'm a bit surprised that
>: config allowed your settings.
>
> actually, I have 2 machines with the same exact h/w configuration. Funnily
> enough, one of them recognizes the sound card perfectly and the other
> doesn't! Both are using the *same* kernel config (I ftp-ed it from the
> working machine to the other). That makes the problem even worse. It's
> not the sound card, and it's not the kernel config, so what else could be
> wrong ?
>
> Someone emailed me about booting the PC into DOS/Win95 mode and then
> soft-resetting it to BSD. I haven't tried that as yet. Might work...
If this works, it's because the card isn't hardware compatible with
a sb. Unfortunate.
> --KN
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Kartik Narayan
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Department of Electrical Engineering, NUS
>
> Address : E 401, Sheares Hall, NUS, Singapore 119260
> Email : kartik@irdu.nus.sg
> URL : http://googoo.ipv6.irdu.nus.sg/~kartik
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !