Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:31:46 -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.4.03.9810191028570.28969-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <86hfx4mach.fsf@zildjian.hq.alink.net>
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On 16 Oct 1998, Matt Braithwaite wrote: > DW> Well, gee, I bet it's trying to tell you something -- that > DW> there are no PnP devices in the system. > > A natural suspicion; my only reason for believing otherwise is that > for several devices whose IRQs can be manually configured in the BIOS > (IR port, serial port, parallel port), the BIOS's help screen and the > system manual say that the BIOS will describe these devices as > ``Configured by PNP OS'' if those devices are configured by Windoze > 9[58]. Otherwise, that option does not appear in the BIOS setup. > That's my only reason for suspecting that there should be some PNP > devices detected. Is there an 'auto' option for the port selection? I haven't found a single motherboard so far that puts up the serial ports for PnP configuration. All of them are static or semi-static (moves the port around if it thinks it' in use) > DW> Are you sure the chip is enabled in the BIOS? If you have to > DW> set resources for it it's not PnP. > > The BIOS mentions the sound card not even once. Hm... > >> pci0:4: vendor=0x125d, device=0x1978, class=multimedia (audio) > >> int a irq 5 [no driver assigned] > > DW> Oops, game over; PCI soundcards are not supported. > > I had hoped that SoundBlaster compatibility implied that the chip > would be usable by drivers that were only aware of ISA cards, but > maybe I'm just confused. I think that mapping is provided by the driver, not by the hardware. The SB compat is Windows-specific thing I bet. > >> OSS/FreeBSD loading, address = f4da7020 > > DW> You're running OSS: why are you doing this? > > Umm, is that bad? I'd tried OSS (in addition to both sound drivers > that come with FreeBSD) mostly because it was yet another thing thing > that might work. I guess; OSS has it's own configuration mechanism and running both could cause odd conflicts. 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
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