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Date:      Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:06:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Ada <acheng@barrow.uwaterloo.ca>
To:        K.J.Bosschaart@wtb.tue.nl
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Do I have to upgrade from 3.1 -> 3.2 for SB PCI 128 to work?
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.96.991022090422.6694B-100000@barrow.uwaterloo.ca>
In-Reply-To: <19991022145909.A463@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>

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On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Karel Joop Bosschaart wrote:

> 
> On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 07:56:34AM -0400, Ada wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 	I have been trying to config a friend's sound card with no success
> > thus far.  The sound card she has is a SB PCI 128.  She is currently
> > running 3.1 on a Pent II with 64 megs of RAM.  
> > Originally we tried the following two lines on her GENERIC file 
> > 
> > device pcm0 at isa? port ? tty irq ? drq ? flags 0x0
> > device pca0 at isa? port "IO_TIMER1" tty
> > 
> > which upon reboot results in 
> > pcm0 not found 
> > pca0 on motherboard
> > pca0: PC speaker audio driver
> > 
> > Upon advice from another bsd-questions subscriber (who has the sound card
> > working under 3.2) we replace the 2 lines above with the following 
> > controller pnp0
> > controller pci0
> > device pcm0
> > device pca0 at isa? port "IO_TIMER1" tty
> > 
> Should be OK. Are you sure you want the PC speaker (pca) when having an 
> SB PCI 128 ;-) ? 
> 
> > But the sound card is still not recognize.  The dmesg is attached at the
> > end. So does she need to upgrade to 3.2 or 3.3 in order for her sound card
> > to work? (We don't have 3.2 available but we do have 3.3 avaiable)
> 
> I had the PCI128 working since 3.1. However, it might be that I
> applied some patches at that time since they weren't included in the
> base distribution yet (the site where I got it isn't there anymore). 
> Check /usr/src/sys/pci for es1370.c and es1370_reg.h. (my versions
> are from 1999/08/29).
> 
> > Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc.
> > Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
> > 	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> > FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #3: Thu Oct 21 14:25:03 EDT 1999
> >     liarseneau@TopGun:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
>                                              ^^^^^^^
> Are you sure this is the custom kernel you built? It isn't a bad
Yes, this is the custom kernel.
> idea to rename it to avoid any confusion (and keep the GENERIC
> for reference).
> 
> > Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> > CPU: Pentium III (451.02-MHz 686-class CPU)
> >   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x673  Stepping=3
> >   Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,<b24>,<b25>>
> > real memory  = 134217728 (131072K bytes)
> > avail memory = 127062016 (124084K bytes)
> 
> That's 128MB, but you mentioned that the machine is running 64MB??
Ah, I might have remember the specs wrong (seems like it is a Pent 3 too) 
I will try to look at the /usr/src/sys/pci directory.
Thanks
Ada
> Hmmm, I don't see any trace of an SB PCI 128 in this dmesg :-(.
> Are you really sure about the correct kernel version?
> It should list something like
> 
> es1: <AudioPCI ES1370> rev 0x01 int a irq 5 on pci0.10.0
> pcm1: using I/O space register mapping at 0xb800
> 
> and
> 
> pcm0 not found
> 
> (for some reason this is normal). 
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Karel.
> 

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 Ada Cheng                       http://www.grad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~acheng   
 Department of Applied Mathematics      acheng@barrow.uwaterloo.ca
 University of Waterloo
 Waterloo, Ont.
 N2L 3G1
 Canada
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