Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 01:10:31 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Helge Oldach <helge.oldach@atosorigin.com> Cc: mat@cnd.mcgill.ca Subject: Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel? Message-ID: <200403060110.31909.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200403051308.OAA11478@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com> References: <200403051308.OAA11478@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com>
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 23:38, Helge Oldach wrote: > >I don't think I've ever seen a motherboard/BIOS where you HAD to > >compile it in the kernel.. > > I have a number of Compaq DeskPro EN K450 here. Rather decent machines > for FreeBSD desktops, and for sure not uncommon hardware. But > unfortunately the stupid Compaq BIOS doesn't have a knob to turn off > PnP, so I have to rely on PNPBIOS to deal with what the Compaq BIOS had > detected. > > With PNPBIOS: > > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) > Installed devices: > pcm0: <ESS 1869 DSP> at io 0x220 irq 5 drq 1:0 bufsz 4096 (1p/1r/0v > channels duplex) > > Without PNPBIOS: no pcm0. Ahh, I see.. Sorry I didn't realise you meant the PNPBIOS in the kernel.. duh :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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