sound etc,

[Rick Yip]

Hi!   I have bought the official version of FreeBSD 3.2 and tried to get the sound to work but it doesn't.  I tried 4Front's software but that doesn't work either.  I get messages that I can't configure /dev/dsp: device is busy all of the time.  Somtimes I can't "allocate 32768 M " problems.  After reading a how-to on AWE (I have a SoundBlaster AWE64 PnP) sound cards http://members.home.net/conrads/awepnp-freebsd.html, it still doesn't work.  Then, 4Front said I should try FreeBSD 3.3 but it still doesn't work.  I do get an error when I tried using awe0 at 0x620: device is not found when the computer boots.  I wonder if that is hanging the computer.   Also, your boot cdrom (3.3) doesn't boot.  3.2 does though.  I don't know if you are aware of it.  In addition, everytime I reboot, my master boot record gets erase to know which partition is made active.  I have to boot into dos and fdisk to make the mbr active.  These problems I didn't have with 3.2.   Thanks in advance,   Rick