Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:47:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Abit KA7 and sound blaster imcompatibility Message-ID: <200008221747.KAA44881@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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My aging, trustworthy, EISA AMD-586 system is being upgraded to modern standards. So, I've acquired an Abit KA7 motherboard, a 650MHz Athlon processor, 128 pc133 sdram, adaptec 2940 scsi, and *no* ide anything. Now, the fun begins. The new system needs MS Windows (for the wife and kids ;) and sound would be nice. So, I move my GUS PnP Pro from the EISA system to then new system. Installation of win98 SE went smoothly until the GUS wasn't recognize. Gravis doesn't support the GUS anymore, so I screwed under win98. The GUS is detected, probed, and works under FBSD3.3. Well, the GUS is an old ISA card, so I decided to upgrade to a SB 16 PCI, which is good enough for now. It turns out the ABIT KA7 and all sound cards that use the A3D chip are incompatible. (See http://www.casema.net/~howland/ka7faq/ka7faq.htm) The suggested work around is to enable the memory hole at 15-16MB in the system BIOS. With the memory hole enabled, Win98 SE finds the SB 16 PCI card, and the system works as expected. Now, the problem is that with the memory hole enabled in the BIOS, the system panics when I try to run FBSD3.3. OUCH! The questions: (1) Can FBSD deal with the memory hole? (2) What sound card is compatible with the KA7 motherboard, will function under FBSD (and Win98 SE)? PS: If it matters, I plan to jump to FBSD-current over a 4 day period. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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