Re: SB16 Pnp - help...
On Fri, Oct 31, 1997 at 12:57:05AM -0500, Will Lowe wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> > That's not my experience. I have a PnP BIOS, but how do you know what
> > settings it has allocated the sound card to tell the sound driver?
> > Especially when all the other OSs will do their own resource management
> > on the card, eg Win95 and even Creative's DOS software includes
> > the Intel plug and play manager. If you knew what IO and IRQ it had
> > been allocated then it might work, but if you add any more cards
> > it may well change.
>
> Oops, sorry:
>
> I meant to imply that one doesn't need isapnptools to set up the card, if
> one knows what the settings will be. As I pointed out in an earlier mail,
> the simplest way to do this is to boot to windows or dos and steal the
> settings from there. If you already know the settings, you don't need
> isapnptools, you can just compile them into the kernel.
Hmmm. My understanding was that 95 would set things up however
it saw fit, rather than whatever the BIOS has given the card. This is
possibly better because generally speaking 95 knows what hardware
you have better than the BIOS (ie due to legacy ISA cards); although
you can allocate IRQs for PNP devices in the BIOS.
thanks,
Hamish
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