Re: Sound card troubles

From: Bruce Mackay <brucem128_at_comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:05:44 -0400
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:27:52 -0700 (PDT)
Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Bruce Mackay wrote:
> 
> > 	Yeah the only thing I can change in this stupid BIOS is the time.
> > PnP cannot be turned off through the BIOS apparently.  What do you mean
> > by wiping the device configuration?  Maybe I'll try doing that anyway
> > and see what happens.
> 
> Is this some dell POS?  You might check for a BIOS update.
> 
> Most BIOSen with PnP support have an option to clear the device config and
> force a PCI/PnP resource reconfiguration on next boot.
> 
<snip>

	Laugh,  it's actually a toshiba POS.  I wish I had realised that the BIOS was so feeble.  One of the reasons I'm checking out FreeBSD is so that I can tinker with different stuff.  Oh well...

	Is this something that FreeBSD team has considered or is considering supporting PnP enforced BIOSes systems? Or am I SOL?

Bruce
Received on Mon Sep 22 2003 - 13:04:11 UTC

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