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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:05:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OPTI Sound Card.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971013000409.9609d-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971012143905.4878A-100000@michelle.esfm.ipn.mx>

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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





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