On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 23:38, Helge Oldach wrote: > >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.
Ahh, I see.. Sorry I didn't realise you meant the PNPBIOS in the kernel.. duh :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
