From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 22 23:04:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C5216A401 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:04:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl (smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl [213.51.146.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FAF613C45D for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:04:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.146.188] (port=56457 helo=smtp3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl) by smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JSgwL-0007jX-Qv for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:04:25 +0100 Received: from cp1228410-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([84.27.217.164]:53562 helo=desktop.homenet) by smtp3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JSgwL-00058I-D5 for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:04:25 +0100 Received: by desktop.homenet (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:03:35 +0100 From: "Danny Pansters" To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:03:35 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <47BEF597.9070503@icyb.net.ua> <20080222180012.aeda99e5.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20080222180012.aeda99e5.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> X-Face: (Zs+'ncTcchkOX|~t6{?Iii=O!G#WEK!+OD0|-F=i%1pvP5V_Sz4PaJC8o)=?utf-8?q?MiSnH/JMJFy=0A=09oBN-My?=, v":S7, (=?utf-8?q?mmkPm=27U=7BMgT+eM=2EBd=5Cp/P!dr=5DhOTXqpse21O!=25Ct=60SE=2EOodq?= =?utf-8?q?=5Dry=5E=23kU=5E=0A=09-?=GT.[8D}i$6P>=" =?utf-8?q?=23=0A=09*J+4d=7E?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802230003.35429.danny@ricin.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Subject: Re: sbc: isa plug-n-play X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:04:27 -0000 On Friday 22 February 2008 18:00:12 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:17:27 +0200 > > Andriy Gapon wrote: > > Everything works great. But recently I had an itch to go trough BIOS > > settings. I spotted one named "Plug-n-Play OS" and it was set to > > The BIOS setting "Plug and Play OS" usually means that the OS will do > its own little dance to set up any devices, so the bios just leaves > them alone. > > > After that no joy, the soundcard stopped to work. It was detected as > > before, there is no difference in dmesg whatsoever, but it did not > > Are you sure that it was detected _exactly_ as before? With the same > irq(s), dma channels and so on? > > > So I disabled the option again and everything is fine. > > Practical conclusion: don't do it. > > Question of curiosity: what is it that BIOS can do with this card that > > our driver can not ? Stuff for windows. > > Well, the bios (and acpi on systems that have it) set up devices by > assigning them irqs, io, memory and whatnot, if I undertstand this > correctly. > > My understanding is that FreeBSD uses this information to attach drivers > to the devices. If the devices are not set up correctly, FreeBSD either > might not find them or it can't use them correctly. Dan