I have a Toshiba Dynabook Satellite 1800 SA10AP/4 laptop (Japan only model I think), and I have installed FreeBSD 4.9 on it. I was recompiling the kernel to enable sound (by adding options pcm), and it kept failing on startup with an error. (I'll try to find what the error was and put it up here soon) Anyway the solution was to go into the bios and turn off plug and play only the bios in Toshiba doesn't call is plug and play, it calls it device configuration.
To get into bios hold down the esc key while the machine boots, and when prompted press the F1 key. Press Page Down to get to the second page of options and select All Devices instead of Selected by OS. Press end to save and exit, and it should boot fine with sound.
I'll try to come back and rewrite this a little later, but I thought I'd better get this info up right away before I forget, and so it will be available for people with the same problem.
Posted by ultrabob at March 9, 2004 09:10 PM