Re: [9fans] SB16

[Carlos Eduardo Lenz <lenz@inf.ufsc.br>]

It says in the bios setup it can emulate a sb16 (compaq 1200series)! So
it's not true?

Anyway, what are the major&minor about? My guess was that they are values
set somewhere by a real sb16 (for detection).

Carlos E Lenz
lenz@inf.ufsc.br

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 plan9@sigint.cs.purdue.edu wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:57:14AM +0900, okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote:
> >> From: Carlos Eduardo Lenz <lenz@inf.ufsc.br>
> >>
> >> My laptop allows to enable SB16 compatibility for the VIA soundcard in
> >> the bios.
> >> I enabled it in plan9.ini, with the dma,irq, etc set in the bios.
> >> But it gives the error msg:
> >> #A: model 0x03 0x02: not SB16 compatible (or something similar).
> >>
> >> Found that devsound.c tests for major=0x03 and minor=0x01.
> >> So I need to know if I can just add another test that fits my config or
> >> my card isn't really supported?
> >
> > Is that really sb16 compatible, not 'sbpro'?
>
> It's probably sbpro; I've never seen a card that emulated an sb16.
>
> You can't just bung in different major/minor numbers; the sbpro is only
> 8-bit, so you have to scale down the 16-bit samples first.
>
> There's an sbpro driver for 2nd Edition on Charles Forsyth's Plan 9 software
> page.  It may be a SMOP to port it to 3rd Edition.
>
> http://www.caldo.demon.co.uk/plan9/soft/index.html
>