Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 07:37:45 -0400 From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: umiacs.umd.edu!smpatel@dg-rtp.dg.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: pnpinfo (was Re: sound question) Message-ID: <199604091137.HAA04680@lakes>
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Sujal - > > > So, to get my sound card working; I have a little DOS floppy I > > boot from, that runs the sound card's setup program. Then, I do > > a warm boot (CNTL-ALT-DEL) to boot up FreeBSD. At that point, > > FreeBSD recognizes the sound card as a "normal" sound-blaster Pro, and > > everything works fine. > > > > I think some people are working on getting Plug-and-Play into > > FreeBSD... is that true? > > Yes... There is work being done, but I'm holding out until I can get > everything working the way Plug-and-Play was intended (i.e. fully > automatic). > > In the meantime, some VERY preliminary (working) support can be found on > ftp://xi.dorm.umd.edu/pub/pnp/* These patches are for -current, though > they should be easily adaptable to 2.1R. > > > Sujal > I grabbed your patches, read the README (by the way, you may want to put your e-mail address at the bottom of that README), and jumped up-and-down with joy to see that this was coming together. So, I untarr'd pnpinfo.tar.gz and ran pnpinfo. Here's what I got: lakes# ./pnpinfo Checking for Plug-n-Play devices... No Plug-n-Play devices were found lakes# although, I have a MediaVision Plug-N-Play sound card in the machine. (it's a non-PnP bios, 486-66 VLB machine, FreeBSD 2.1-R) Where should I start looking to see why this isn't recognized? The documentation that comes with the card is quite miserable (although, it does use an OPTi chip set - I did wrangle some documentation from them, but it's not exactly readable...) - Dave Rivers -
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