Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 04:23:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: the_reman@hotmail.com (Chris Day) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? Message-ID: <199805050223.EAA07418@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <19980505012801.22826.qmail@hotmail.com> from "Chris Day" at May 5, 98 11:27:41 am
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> >> I've just bought an ISA-PnP soundcard, but my old Asus 486SP3G BIOS' > doesn't > > > >boot with -c and use the manual pnp configuration instruction > > There are however some cards which will refuse to admit to being there > when you do a PnP probe and can only be configured by proprietary ports if this happens they are not ISA-PnP compliant. In the case of the OPTi931, the PnP configuration works fine in my experience (unless the card you have has the 'disable PnP' pin hardwired on, but that's another story The fact that the card wants its own initialization, like any other card in the world, does not mean it is not PnP, it only means it is not 100% SB or WSS clone and so does not work well if initialized as a SB or WSS. > So my advice is, make sure that when you buy a card make sure you can > test it first and return it if it won't work. Just coz it says "Plug > and Play" doesn't mean it's PnP. correct. cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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