Daniel O'Connor: >On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 19:06, Helge Oldach wrote: >> The issue with kldloading is that you still need PNPBIOS for many >> on-board sound devices. Which means that you need to compile your own >> kernel anyway, or don�t you? > >I don't think I've ever seen a motherboard/BIOS where you HAD to >compile it in the kernel..
I have a number of Compaq DeskPro EN K450 here. Rather decent machines for FreeBSD desktops, and for sure not uncommon hardware. But unfortunately the stupid Compaq BIOS doesn't have a knob to turn off PnP, so I have to rely on PNPBIOS to deal with what the Compaq BIOS had detected. With PNPBIOS: FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: pcm0: <ESS 1869 DSP> at io 0x220 irq 5 drq 1:0 bufsz 4096 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex) Without PNPBIOS: no pcm0. Latest BIOS revision, of course. >I don't see why kldload'ing is different to static compilation WRT >calling the BIOS.. It's not. But without PNPBIOS either won't work on these boxes. Helge _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
