From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 13 00:05:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA24485 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:05:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA24466 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:05:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA10466; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:05:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Eduardo Viruena Silva cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OPTI Sound Card. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: > > Hello there! > > May somebody tell me how the freebsd's kernel make detection of > sound cards ? > > Almost a year ago I sent a question about initialization of OPTI > sound card because it only works fine when it is initialized > starting MS-DOS drivers and then rebooting the machine. > > Now, I modified some of the kernel source files for making the same > initialization that MS-DOS makes, and the correction worked. > > I would like to know how can I make these modifications be put in standard > places. Unfortunately, the sound driver is in the process of being rewritten. You should contact multimedia@freebsd.org and ask if the OPTI sound cards are initialized properly, and if not, then see if you can get onto the driver team and modify your patches to fit. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major