Excerpts from internet.computing.netbsd.netbsd-help: 2-Oct-95 Again,
SoundBlaster 16 by Brad Colbert@aac.accurat 
>    Do the SoundBlaster drivers work at all in NetBSD 1.0?  Are there any
>    programs out there that I can try, such as r-play?

They work for me with a SoundBlaster 8 (or whatever the original 8-bit
mono card is called).  Only thing I've really used it for is playing
au files, which you can copy directly to /dev/audio.  Works fine for me
with web browsing, etc.

alex