Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 14:06:27 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org> Cc: mat@cnd.mcgill.ca Subject: Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel? Message-ID: <20040305220627.7F9BE5D07@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Mar 2004 20:08:35 %2B0100." <20040305200835.45b89cbc.tijl@ulyssis.org>
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> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 20:08:35 +0100 > From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:58:26 +0100 (MET), Helge Oldach wrote: > > > So yes: some machines require a kernel with PNPBIOS even when sound > > modules can be kldload'ed. I presume these are typically boxen without > > knob to disable the PnP BIOS. > > > > Still I wonder whether sound on -CURRENT will do on such a box... > > I have an old toshiba which also needs PNPBIOS in 4-STABLE and > when I tried 5-CURRENT sound just worked. Of course that doesn't say > anything about your setup... That is almost certainly because of ACPI. It handles peripheral devices quite differently from the former mode and, if it works at all on a given system, should eliminate this Plug-n-Play mess when 5 goes STABLE!
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