On Mon, 13 Feb 1995 12:47:36 +1030 (CST) 
 blymn@awadi.com.AU (Brett Lymn) wrote:

 >         I have wacked a SoundBlaster Pro sound card into the old Siren
 > (NetBSD 1.0, no patches, 486DX/25 machine) and configured the kernel
 > to support it.  I chose interrupt 7 and DMA channel 3 for the card and
 > setup the jumpers accordingly.  When the siren boots it gets up to
 > probing sb0 and tells me that "DMA Channel 3 is invalid for this card"
 > or words to that effect.  I ignored the message and made a /dev/audio
 > device and tried to cat to it to which the response was "Device Busy"

options SBPRO

This will get the correct irq/drq checking macros.  See the end of 
/sys/arch/i386/isa/sbreg.h for details...

 > no real surprise there.  The card _does_ work with DOOM (hey, I was
 > only using it to test the card.  Honest! ;-) so I believe that the
 > jumpers are correct.  Any suggestions/patches?  I know there have been
 > some patches for sound cards....
 > 
 > -- 
 > Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
 > ===============================================================================
 > "Also, it takes a lot longer to get up North ..... The slow way"
 >         - "Clever Trevor" Ian Drury 
 > 

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