From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Sep 6 15:43:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8189137B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:43:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal1.es.net [198.128.3.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F014443E3B for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:43:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal1.es.net (Postal Node 1) with ESMTP id GQF37091; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 15:43:41 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D945D06; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:43:40 -0700 (PDT) To: "Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" Cc: FreeBSD Mobile Subject: Re: can't assign resources -- Sound problem? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Sep 2002 18:29:52 CDT." <3D793A70.90203@acm.org> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 15:43:40 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20020906224340.C3D945D06@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 18:29:52 -0500 > From: "Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > >>Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 18:05:19 -0500 > >>From: "Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" > >>Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > >> > >>Hello all, > >> I am running 4.x stable and getting some weird errors on boot. I've > >>been getting them for a while (since 4.1 or 4.2) I first noticed them > >>when I got the sound to work, but they may have been coming up > >>beforethen, and I decided, finally, to look into them. I think it may > >>have something to do with the sound since it is detected in the middle > >>of the errors, but I'm not sure. Information follows: > >> > >>The laptop is a Compal TS30T which is the same as a Dell Inspiron 3500 > >>or an HP OmniBook 4150. It has 160MB of RAM. > >> > >>flash:data# uname -a > >>FreeBSD data.mraught.homeip.net 4.7-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE > >>#0: Tue Sep 3 06:22:06 EST 2002 > >>root@data.mraught.homeip.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DATA i386 > >> > >>and the relevant part of the dmesg: > >> > >>... > >>ppc0: parallel port not found. > >>unknown: can't assign resources > >>unknown: can't assign resources > >>unknown: can't assign resources > >>pcm0: at port 0x530-0x537,0x388-0x38b,0x220-0x22f irq 9 drq 0,1 > >>on isa0 > >>unknown: can't assign resources > >>unknown: can't assign resources > >>unknown: can't assign resources > >>IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing. > >>... > >> > >> > >>I can post the whole dmesg if anyone is interested or thinks it matters. > >>The only other things I can think of that may make a difference is a > >>Linksys wireless card and X is still 3.x since I have cvsup'ed since > >>before 4.x was the included standard. (and since 3.x caused me some > >>problems I'm sure 4.x would too. But I sure love Blackbox) > >> > >> > > > >The first simply tells you that the parallel port was not found. This > >may be because it does not exist, because the port is not enabled in > >BIOS, or because the device is not in the config. (I doubt the > >latter.) > > > >The unknown PNP devices are "normal" if you have "options PNPBIOS" in > >your kernel. I prefer not to use that option and have never seen a > >good reason to do so. > > > >The pcm0 message is the sound card with a Crystal Sound 423X chip. > > > >Other than the lack of a parallel port (which you might not need), I > >don't see anything significant here. > > > Cool. Thanks. I just wondered about those PNPBIOS errors, but I guess > they are normal. > > OTOH: If I were to remove PNPBIOS from the kernel is there any way to > still use pcm for my sound? IIRC: I needed PNPBIOS or my sound card > wouldn't work. See LINT. Just configure it manually. Something like: device pcm0 at isa? port 0x530 irq 9 drq 1 flags 0x10 See the man page for how to configure flags. Looks like 0x10 is right for yours. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message