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  From: Benjamin Close <linux@senet.com.au>
  To  : Daniel Callan <dcallan@dataline.net.au>
  Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 18:00:21 +0930 (CST)

Re: Cmi 8330 Onboard Sound card

On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Daniel Callan wrote:

> Good news and bad news ;-)
> I don't have the onboard version, but I do have the CMI8330 sound
> card working under linux (just). However, it is an ugly beast of
> a Plug and Pray sound card, and due to its brainless PnP chipset
> I have to boot the machine with a MSDOS bootdisk with the DOS drivers
> for the card loaded onto it, then CTRL+ALT+DEL without the disk
> into Linux. This initialises the CMI8330 (until poweroff) into
> knowing its recources so that the standard SB16 modules can find
> the device when they probe for it on kernel startup.

Just a suggestion, not sure if it will work. Depending on your bios you
may have an option undersomething like "chipset features" called "PNP os".

I have found with my PNP sb16 that turning this off makes it work fine in
dos and other os' without drivers but causes havic with dos when on. It
may work for you as well.

Cheers,
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* Benjamin Close
* Benjsc@senet.com.au
* Web Page: http://users.senet.com.au/~benjsc

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