Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 20:36:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert J. Rutter" <rjr@sparks.empath.on.ca> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will a SB 16 PnP work with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199606260036.UAA27797@sparks.empath.on.ca>
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I had the misfortune to purchase a PnP SB16 and this is what I experienced: 1. It worked with Win95 after I fiddled with the AHA1542 I/O address in order to resolve conflicts. The PnP settings were only configurable through the SB16's buggy and almost useless PnP software. 2. Reconfiguring the SB16, confused Win95 so badly that I had to uninstall, reinstall and reconfigure the SB16 driver manually. 3. The SB16 PnP comes up with everything turned off. This means that the SB16 PnP will not work unless it is initialized by a PnP bios or an O/S that recognizes and initializes it. 4. The PnP SB16 will not be recognized by FreeBSD 2.1 unless it is initialized by a PnP bios or O/S after a cold start. 5. This was confirmed after being put on hold for 1/2 hour (at my expense) by Soundblastard support. 6. After wasting many hours and days of my time with PnP stupidities I took the card back to where I bought it and swapped it for an older SB16 with jumpers. 7. After changing one jumper and setting the IRQ with software I had the NON-PnP SB16 up and running with both Win95 and FreeBSD in less than an hour each. Moral of this story... Just say NO to PnP. |I'm in the process of buying an new computer system to run FreeBSD |for work/programming and Win95/DOS for games :-) Now, I know that |the SoundBlaster 16 is pretty much a standard for games and that |FreeBSD knows how to talk to it. However, what about the new PnP |varieties? Does the PnP interfere with it's use from FreeBSD? |These things use software to set things like IRQ's, right? Does |this need to be done each time the system is powered on? Or do |the settings get stored non-volitily (sp?), and would only have |to be set once? And what about the SB 16 Vibra/OEM versions? |Are they just as good? Better? To be avoided? Any help here |would be useful...
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