[9fans] audio and sb16 setup

[9fans] audio and sb16 setup

[anothy]

i've got an ISA SB16 PnP. i can make it work if i
boot to DOS and run CTCM, creative's PnP
configuration utility, to set the port, IRQ, and DMA,
and tell my BIOS i'm running a PnP OS, and give
plan9.ini the correct line to match what i told CTCM.
obviously, i'd rather not have to do that. but any
combination i've tried of things in plan9.ini
(including just type=sb16) and BIOS settings don't
seem to help. what's the recomended setup? and is
there any way to tell what resources (irq, port, etc.)
are being used by this card?
-α.

Re: [9fans] audio and sb16 setup

[Russ Cox]

if you set port=0x240 (or 220, 260, etc.)
the driver should be able to handle the
rest of the configuration itself.

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/~rsc/tsb.c
is a soundblaster prober you can use
to try to figure out the port.

it prints lots of hex numbers.
if they're mostly 0xff, that's
the wrong port.

make sure that in your bios, pnp os
is _disabled_.  that will make the
bios auto-config the pnp devices for you.

russ

Re: [9fans] audio and sb16 setup

[anothy]

oh, and i should probably include the error, too, huh?
	#A: soundblaster not responding/wrong version
to anything like 'ls '#A'' or 'cat volume'.
-α.