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Date:      Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:05:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Matt Braithwaite <mab@alink.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What can I do about ``No Plug-n-Play devices were found''?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810161404100.28399-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <86u315huxy.fsf@zildjian.hq.alink.net>

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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                               
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