From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 19 10:32:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26904 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:32:19 -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 KAA26887 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:32:16 -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 KAA05570; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:31:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:31:46 -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: <86hfx4mach.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 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