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Re: plug and play BIOS and Linux

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bas Vermeulen)
Sun Nov 24 06:30:54 1996

Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 03:56:44 +0100 (MET)
From: Bas Vermeulen <t516756@tip.nl>
Reply-To: Bas Vermeulen <Bas.Vermeulen@tip.nl>
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Yes... You can let the bios handle your PnP hardware. As long as you don't
add cards, the setup will be the same. :)

Bas Vermeulen

On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, drink wrote:

> I've got a plug and play BIOS.  My understanding is that it assigns
> resources to plug and play devices so that I don't need a plug and play
> OS, am I right?  Does this mean I can actually use my plug and play SB16
> card in Linux?  I'd hate to recompile my kernel, configure sound support
> and then spend days trying to debug it just to find out I'm wrong. 
> Thanks.
> Craig
> 
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