Sound Blaster Live DD5.1

[Scott Long]

Emil A Eklund wrote:
> I believe the soundblasters in dell machines are special in some kind, I
> have a dell as well and the SB Live that came with it works fine under
> windows, but does not work at all under FreeBSD, however I had an old
> Live (exact same spec as the one that came with the machine) and it
> works just fine, I have no idea what's different about the dell ones.
> 
> /Emil A Eklund
> 
> On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 17:41, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> 
>>I have recently purchased a Dell Dimension 8250 which contains a Creative
>>Labs SoundBlaster Live! DD 5.1 card.  My previous SoundBlaster Live! card
>>was detected in FreeBSD 4.7, but this one is not detected in this machine
>>using FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE (cvsup to it).  No pcm devices show during boot.
>>Is there a way to give the kernel a hint?  There is no way to shut of PNP in
>>the BIOS, as Dell as not added this option.
>>
>>Windows XP is showing:
>>
>>I/O Range: DC40-DC5F
>>IRQ: 18
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Tom Veldhouse
>>

Dell has a bad habit of using unique PCI-ID's for hardware that it buys
from others.  Can both of you do 'pciconf -lv' and post the output?  It
might very well be as easy as just adding the Dell IDs to the driver.

Scott