Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 23:27:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, ludwigp@bigfoot.com Cc: conrads@neosoft.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jfarmer@goldsword.com Subject: Re: Advice on audio strategy needed Message-ID: <199706270327.XAA27235@sabre.goldsword.com>
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On Thu, 26 Jun 1997 11:11:47 -0700 Ludwig Pummer said: >At 10:29 AM 6/26/97 -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: >>Most likely he has an Intel motherboard which you can indeed disable the >>CS4232C. At any rate Sujal Patel's PnP stuff should be able also to disable >>the CS4232c however the BIOS will still reserve the CS4232c's IRQs >>which translates to wasting IRQ during the BIOS init. > >Sounds like he has the Intel Atlantis (Advanced/AS), which has the CS4232C >soundcard-on-a-chip, and an ATI mach64 video card (video card is optional) >built into the motherboard. From Intel's Atlantis FAQ >(http://developer.intel.com/design/motherbd/as/as_inst.HTM): >----- [FAQ info deleted (but it's in my files...] > >Obviously, not very friendly to non-Micro$oft systems. >--Ludwig Pummer Why am I not surprised ? :^< But it fits in with what we've always known, if a board will work with Windoze, then it's "good enough." Can you tell, I spend more time worrying about equipment that will work well under FreeBSD (& similar os's) than Win95 :^/ Sigh. Now I have the other problem. Client has 20 workstations to be upgraded from Win 3.1 & 386/486 to P-class & Win95. Now I have to find out which mainboards are solid under Win95 & don't cost an arm & a leg... Their mailserver/router will be a FreeBSD box, I know what to use there! :^> John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John T. Farmer Proprietor, GoldSword Systems jfarmer@goldsword.com Public Internet Access in East Tennessee dial-in (423)470-9953 for info, e-mail to info@goldsword.com Network Design, Internet Services & Servers, Consulting
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