From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 14:06:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA15098 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:06:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA15010 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:06:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24734; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:05:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:05:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Matt Braithwaite cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What can I do about ``No Plug-n-Play devices were found''? In-Reply-To: <86u315huxy.fsf@zildjian.hq.alink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15 Oct 1998, Matt Braithwaite wrote: > Among plug and play problems, this seems to be a rare one. I get the > above message both at boot and from pnpinfo. Well, gee, I bet it's trying to tell you something -- that there are no PnP devices in the system. > The specific device I'm trying to get working is my sound chip, which > has been variously described as an ESS 1918 or ESS Maestro 2. > However, the BIOS suggests that various other devices (serial, > parallel, IR port) are PNP as well, so I'm really surprised that > pnpinfo can't find a single thing. Do I need to do the `pnp x y os > enable' dance before pppinfo will see a device, or should it work > regardless? Are you sure the chip is enabled in the BIOS? If you have to set resources for it it's not PnP. > The sound chip in question is also PCI, it seems. At boot it is > described as follows: > > pci0:4: vendor=0x125d, device=0x1978, class=multimedia (audio) int a > irq 5 [no driver assigned] Oops, game over; PCI soundcards are not supported. > OSS/FreeBSD loading, address = f4da7020 You're running OSS: why are you doing this? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message