In message <390E7278.B1F5E8F2@augustsson.net>, Lennart Augustsson writes:
>That's kinda right.  You sound chip is probably compatible with old 8-bit
>SB (instead of SB16), and NetBSD doesn't know how to drive it in native mode.

>What does dmesg say?  What sound chip is it?

It's a NeoMagic 256AV.  I found a workaround - I used 'wss* at pnpbios...'
and now it works fine.  I'm pretty sure I was using the 'sb' mode before,
though.

-s