Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 15:23:32 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Aaron Clark (John Clark) <jclark1@mdc.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org, smpatel@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 32-Bit Soundcard Intialization Message-ID: <199702172323.PAA29718@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Feb 1997 14:22:36 PST." <27663.856218156@time.cdrom.com>
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Just post on the multimedia mailing with problems related to sound, video, etc... The PnP initialization for your card should be a non-issue whether you set ICU or not in your BIOS. In fact, the PnP initialization was written to "manually" initialize PnP devices that is without assistance from the BIOS. Amancio >From The Desk Of "Jordan K. Hubbard" : > > I am a graduate student taking a class in network system administration > > and we are using freebsd as our os. My prof. has a 32-bit soundblaster > > soundcard that is not being properly initialized by freebsd. If the pc is > > brought up in dos and then warm booted into freebsd, the card work > > fine. > > > > I am interested in modify or rewriting the driver for this card, but don't > > know where to start. Any information that anybody could provide would > > greatly appreciated. > > 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. > > I asked both of them to do what I'm going to recommend to you - talk > to Sujal Patel <smpatel@FreeBSD.org> as the PnP meister and figure > out what bit is missing. It does appear that the PnP code just isn't > waking the AWE32PnP cards up, even when all of the pnpinfo stuff is > properly enabled, and I'm not sure what the solution is. > > If you're interested in working with those other two SB32 owners, both > of whom I'm sure would be happy to help you test and tweak things, you > can reach them as chein@cisco.com and overholt@cisco.com (both test > engineers for cisco :-). > > Jordan >
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