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Subject: #$%@#$!@# PnP devices...
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Aaaarrrrghhhhhh!  Thoroughly frustrated...

I have a Micron P-100 with:

	BusLogic BT946C SCSI controller
		Conner 10805 1.08G drive
		Plextor PX43-CS CD-ROM
	Supra 28.8 PnP modem
	Diamond Stealth 64 2001 2Meg EDO DRAM video ctlr
	PS/2 mouse
	MAG 17FGX monitor
	SMC 8432T ethernet ctlr (DEC 21041 equiv)
	Soundblaster

I have the disk partitioned with ~400M for Win95 and ~600M for FreeBSD.

Problem #1
	The supra modem has *no* jumpers to set addrs or irqs.
	Under win95 it shows up at 0x2f8 and irq 3, but FreeBSD
	configured with sio1 at 0x2f8 and irq 3 doesn't see it.
	I also tried 0x2e8 at irq 3 and didn't get anything there.

	I have the two com ports on the motherboard set with A to
	com1 at 3f8 @ irq 4, and B disabled.  com1 shows up fine
	on sio0.

Questions:

	1. Once win95 sets a PnP addr & port, are they semi-permanent,
	or do they disappear on a soft reboot?  What about a hard reboot?

	2. How the heck do I find out what the default addrs for the
	dang modem are?  It came with *zero* doc, just a bunch of 
	advertising bs for AOL, etc.

Problem #2

	The BIOS has a setting for PnP OS's and non-PnP OS's.
	The BIOS also has a setting for large disk addressing mode
	which is either DOS or other.

	This seems to imply that when switching from win95 to freebsd
	I should change both of these settings.  However, when I do that,
	freebsd can't find the boot block or the scsi ctlr seems to hang.
	If I just boot into win95, then exit, and boot into freebsd
	without changing the settings, it *seems* to come up ok.  But
	I don't get any real warm fuzzies about this...  

	Is anyone running a similar system, and if so can you shed some
	light on this?

Problem #3

	What XF86Config options and server should I use?  I tried the 
	svga server and got what looked like a character-based attempt 
	to paint graphics. So then I backed off to a simpler server
	and ended up with only 640x480 graphics, and after a few mouse
	movements the whole thing froze up.

	In order to get the mouse to work, I had to comment out
	all the code in psmprobe, as suggested by Brett Bourbin.
	But I'm wondering if that isn't just going around some other 
	problem which is causing the subsequent hang.

Looking and hoping for a bazillion flashes of light...

Gary Aitken		garya@dreamchaser.org