From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Feb 18 09:27:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA16756 for multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:27:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from sujal.prognet.com (sujal.prognet.com [204.255.154.231]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA16746 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:27:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (smpatel@localhost) by sujal.prognet.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA19277; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:26:04 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: sujal.prognet.com: smpatel owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:26:04 -0800 (PST) From: Sujal Patel To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Aaron Clark , multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 32-Bit Soundcard Intialization In-Reply-To: <27663.856218156@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > This appears to be a PnP initialization issue, and it's been noted by > a number of people - one guy can't get the card to initialize unless > he enables "ICU" configuration in his BIOS, another can't do it at all > unless he does exactly what you did on your professor's machine. On most motherboards, "ICU Enabled" means that the settings for the PnP cards are hardcoded by the BIOS's ICU program (usually some pretty menu driven dos program). With ICU disabled, the BIOS does it's best to configure the card. In older motherboards like many ASUS brand pentium boards, the PnP configuration code is goofed up. This means that disabling the ICU will cause the PnP code in the BIOS to run, thus confusing the PnP card (and usually making it unconfigurable by my PnP support code). You should try to flash in the latest version of your motherboard's BIOS (especially if it's an Asus motherboard). Sujal