On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 07:40:13AM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> 	Hello Folks.  I'm trying to get an old sound blaster 16 working on my NetBSD
> I386 box.  My problem is that I can't get the driver to program the card to
> use the correct interrupt.  The card appears to have software programmable

The driver doesn't know how to do that. Documentation isn't reliably available
for those types of functions, and while there are lots of SB compatible cards,
each one might do that setup function differently.

 > interrupt channels, but the sb driver appears not to know how to set them.

Use the setup disk that comes with the card (or downloadble from Creative, I
guess) to set the card up. 

If you had something newer than 1.2G, I'd say prefferably pick PnP.
I don't remember ever seeing a jumperless SB that didn't support PnP mode.
NetBSD 1.2G though, was before good PnP support - I think it was available
as patches at that time. So, go for IO220/IRQ5.

> I'm using an older machine with NetBSD 1.2G and sb version 1.54, and I
> can't use a newer version of NetBSD because they don't work on this
> hardware.

Newer versions of NetBSD don't work on that hardware? Do you mean the
install floppy doesn't work, or something else? I can't think of anything
that's been de-supported on i386.

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