Subject: Re: Soundcards
To: George Sollish <gsollish@ivik.autogear.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/06/2000 18:17:19
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, George Sollish wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
>
> > There is a fledgeling hardware database at
> > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/hw.cgi
> >
> > We really want people to add their soundcards and other hardware
> > (or if already present add a comment indicating how happy they are
> > with them).
> >
> > David/absolute
>
> David,
>
> I checked out the database and I'll certainly check in some hardware I've
> had luck with. Regarding the AOpen AW37 card, I believe the problem I'm
> having is due to a port mismatch between the card, which the dos setup
> reports as being on 0x530, and the 1.4.2 kernel probe which is
> searching 0x534. How do I build a kernel that will have our PnP find the
> right address?
Is the card pnp compatible and is there a pnp attachment in the
config file? Otherwise you could tweak the config file to look
for the isa attachment at 0x530? Is it an ISA or PCI card?
David/absolute