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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!206.154.70.8!news.webspan.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news.nl.innet.net!INnl.net!feed1.news.innet.be!INbe.net!stns.news.pipex.net!warm.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.utell.co.uk!usenet 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. Lines: 44 Message-ID: <5olnhp$b2l@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> References: <5odkc9$sal@nuscc.nus.sg> <5oe0tn$d69@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <5ofmiu$92i@nuscc.nus.sg> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: shift.utell.net 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:43345 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 !