Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 23:19:35 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, steph8@flash.net (Stephan Nagy), stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound Question Message-ID: <199803110719.XAA21978@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Mar 1998 23:12:17 PST." <26236.889600337@time.cdrom.com>
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> > yes but in the docs it says that PnP cards are assigned the next > > available unit numbers, so you get pcm1 ... i don't see where is the > > problem. Don't you like the name ? :) > > It does confuse a lot of folks though, especially since they now have > to MAKEDEV snd1 rather than the documented snd0 in order to get it to > work. Why isn't 0 used as the first unit for some people? On my > system it certainly is: > > pcm0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15 on isa Because this is the way that PCI and PnP overrides of ISA devices currently works. 8( At the time that the PCI/ISA probe runs, it has now way of knowing whether the static configuration values that are possessed by the ISA instance actually correspond to anything. So it can't up and take it away. In your case, you just have an ordinary ISA soundcard, not a PnP one. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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