Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:45:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Johan Kruger <jk@nanoteq.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI Sound support - Ensoniq ( creative ?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807201545240.16885-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35AF0FA2.B2374BFA@nanoteq.co.za>
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On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Johan Kruger wrote: > I have an Ensoniq PCI sound card, on the box it say's it's from > Creative but i dont know if that is entirely correct. In win95 it can > work as a normal PCI Ensoniq device, or an Legacy device, which > emulate SB Pro 2, as most of the cards nowadays do. Can you tell me if > it's possible to get a driver for this card in FreeBSD, i can't > configure it as a SB Pro 2, since the card must be put in this mode > with a driver, and even then, it resets it's configuration as an SB > Pro2 to a PCI device, every time the sytem restarts, so i cant put it > in SB Pro mode, and then boot FreeBSD to let it work. No driver currently exists. However, it is possible to start DOS, run the driver, then jump to FreeBSD mode using the fbsdboot.exe program on the CD or ftp site. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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