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Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 11:52:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@rrnet.com>
Subject: Re: sound blaster driver
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On Wed, 31 May 1995, Eric L. Hernes wrote:

oops, looks like that message got chopped.
heres the rest of it..

> 
> I'm having a bit of a problem with a sound-blaster card that i have here.
> It's an ancient 8-bit model.  The card is recognized at bootup, but when
> I cat somefile.au >/dev/audion, the first chunk of the sound file plays and
> then just hangs, 'til i hit ^c.
> 
> This thing has behaved this way since 2.0R (but it worked under linux, yuck).
> It hasn't really been a problem until now, as I am really close to having
> convinced all of the linux users here to use FreeBSD for a production
> sound/graphics platform. And we have thousands of these cards which we
> will need to use.
> 
> The card is configured for dma1, irq7. 
> 
> config line looks like this:
> device sb0      at isa? port 0x220 irq 7 conflicts drq 1 vector sbintr
> 
> probe looks like this...
> 

the probe really looks like this