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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 16 PnP
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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 10:13:39 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <19970729213045.26986@scsn.net> from "Donald J. Maddox" at Jul 29, 97 09:30:45 pm
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> > I was wondering, am I the only person who just looked under Windows
> > 95 (tm) which resources the PnP Soundblaster 16 used and configured
> > his kernel likewise? With just an PnP SB16 and a non-PnP Teles ISDN
> > card, this works fine.
> 
>     No, you're not the only one, but this can work *only* if you have
> a PnP BIOS that puts everything where it should be at boottime.  Not
> everyone is so lucky.

I have to echo this.  Windows 95 has PnP code for dealing with such
machines using OS software.  The monolithic name for it it "card
services".

Note that on non-PnP BIOS machines, PnP cards are not necessarily
initially disabled...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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