From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 15:12:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA28972 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:12:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alink.net (br.alink.net [207.135.127.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA28931 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:12:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mab@zildjian.hq.alink.net) Received: from zildjian.hq.alink.net (lc.alink.net [207.135.127.87]) by alink.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25739; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:11:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mab@localhost) by zildjian.hq.alink.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02024; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:11:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mab) From: Matt Braithwaite Reply-To: mab@alink.net X-Attribution: mab To: rick hamell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What can I do about ``No Plug-n-Play devices were found''? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 16 Oct 1998 15:11:54 -0700 In-Reply-To: rick hamell's message of "Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:18:51 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: <86g1coma1h.fsf@zildjian.hq.alink.net> Lines: 38 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "rh" == rick hamell writes: rh> I think you're confused as to what PNP is actually rh> used for. PNP will only detect ISA cards in your system. Huh. Okay, that's a good thing to know. rh> Your sound card is a PCI device and therefore 'automatically' rh> installed as far as PNP is concerned, ditto with your serial rh> ports, lpt1, ect. You mean, my serial port is a PCI device? Foo. One of the things that's not clear to me about PnP is whether there's some kind of PnP `agent' that the OS communicates with. When I compiled pnpinfo with -DDEBUG it seemed that it was probing for devices at a bunch of addresses, which would seem to be unnecessary if there were one entity that the OS could communicate with to receive an enumeration of all PnP devices in the system. rh> With the laptop you'll probally want to be using the PCMCIA rh> drivers, and just loud Luigi's sound code in, and it should rh> all work fine. I am running the PCMCIA drivers, though I'm unclear what that has to do with this. Anyway, I did try Luigi's driver (and the VoxWare driver, and OSS for fun) but without any luck. Doug White says that PCI sound cards are simply unsupported; if this is true maybe I should just give up for a while. OSS says they're planning for a beta Maestro 2 driver in December; but I'd hoped that the alleged `SoundBlaster compatibility' would be good for something in the meantime. Sigh. -- ``Memory management is more important than end users, followed by the scheduler, device drivers and the update daemon. The end user ranks at the bottom somewhere, just beneath the screen saver.'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message