From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 6 16:04:05 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA24764 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 6 May 1995 16:04:05 -0700 Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA24758 for ; Sat, 6 May 1995 16:04:04 -0700 Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R2.01/dg-rtp-v02) id AA14539; Sat, 6 May 1995 19:03:26 -0400 Received: (rivers@localhost) by ponds.UUCP (8.6.9/8.6.5) id SAA27331 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Sat, 6 May 1995 18:08:24 -0400 Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 18:08:24 -0400 From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199505062208.SAA27331@ponds.UUCP> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Interesting sound card problems (in FreeBSD 2.0R.) Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I recently purchased an ISP-16 sound card from MediaMagic Inc. This card claims SoundBlaster Pro compatibility, and comes with some nice Windows bundled software. Anyway, after struggling to get things configured in my kernel, wondering why the sound wasn't working - I think I hit on the issue. If I run (under DOS) the MediaMagic supplied initialition program (ISPINIT.EXE), then boot FreeBSD; things appear to work. The probe (usually) finds a SoundBlaster Pro. If, however, I turn off the machine; turn it back on and boot FreeBSD, the probe finds a SoundBlaster 2.1; and nothing works. (cat'ing a .au file to /dev/audio simply sits there until I hit cntrl-c.) So, I'm guessing there's something in the probe which should initialize the card before determining exactly what it is... Does anyone have any ideas? - Thanks - - Dave Rivers -