Date: 16 Oct 1998 15:11:54 -0700 From: Matt Braithwaite <mab@alink.net> To: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What can I do about ``No Plug-n-Play devices were found''? Message-ID: <86g1coma1h.fsf@zildjian.hq.alink.net> In-Reply-To: rick hamell's message of "Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:18:51 -0700 (PDT)" References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.981016091637.4345A-100000@dsinw.com>
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>>>>> "rh" == rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> writes:
rh> I think you're confused as to what PNP is actually
rh> used for. PNP will only detect ISA cards in your system.
Huh. Okay, that's a good thing to know.
rh> Your sound card is a PCI device and therefore 'automatically'
rh> installed as far as PNP is concerned, ditto with your serial
rh> ports, lpt1, ect.
You mean, my serial port is a PCI device? Foo.
One of the things that's not clear to me about PnP is whether there's
some kind of PnP `agent' that the OS communicates with. When I
compiled pnpinfo with -DDEBUG it seemed that it was probing for
devices at a bunch of addresses, which would seem to be unnecessary if
there were one entity that the OS could communicate with to receive an
enumeration of all PnP devices in the system.
rh> With the laptop you'll probally want to be using the PCMCIA
rh> drivers, and just loud Luigi's sound code in, and it should
rh> all work fine.
I am running the PCMCIA drivers, though I'm unclear what that has to
do with this.
Anyway, I did try Luigi's driver (and the VoxWare driver, and OSS for
fun) but without any luck. Doug White says that PCI sound cards are
simply unsupported; if this is true maybe I should just give up for a
while. OSS says they're planning for a beta Maestro 2 driver in
December; but I'd hoped that the alleged `SoundBlaster compatibility'
would be good for something in the meantime. Sigh.
--
``Memory management is more important than end users, followed by the
scheduler, device drivers and the update daemon. The end user ranks
at the bottom somewhere, just beneath the screen saver.''
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