Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:53:40 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Christian Ramseyer <rc@networkz.ch> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Audio on Sunblade 100 Message-ID: <20090817205340.GA75477@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <4A7C6B50.3070503@networkz.ch> References: <4A7C6B50.3070503@networkz.ch>
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On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 07:58:40PM +0200, Christian Ramseyer wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to get sound on a Sunblade 100 with 7.2R. I've added > > device sound > device snd_t4dwave > > to the kernel and recompiled. pciconf shows an attached driver: > > pcm0@pci0:0:8:0: class=0x040100 card=0x545110b9 chip=0x545110b9 > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi/ULi)' > device = 'ALI M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device' > class = multimedia > subclass = audio > > However, there are errors in dmesg: > > pcm0: <Acer Labs M5451> port 0x900-0x9ff mem 0x424000-0x424fff at device > 8.0 on pci0 > pcm0: <Analog Devices AD1881A AC97 Codec> > pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > pcm0: [ITHREAD] > pcm0: chn_init(pcm0:record:dsp0.r0) failed: err = 19 > pcm0: pcm_chn_create(trrchan, -1, 0xfffff80001370800) failed > pcm0: chn_init(pcm0:play:dsp0.p0) failed: err = 19 > pcm0: pcm_chn_create(trpchan, 1, 0xfffff80001370800) failed > > I've also found this message from 2006: > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-sparc64/2006-June/004168.html > > So, am I just doing something wrong or are there problems with 5451 > audio on SPARC? I see that the release notes only list i386 and amd64 as > architectures for the t4dwave driver. > > By the way, thanks a lot for all the work your guys are doing in general > and for the SPARC port in particular. I'm currently trying BSD for the > first time in my life and I like it a lot. It runs surprisingly well on > this outdated platform. > Could you (or any other Blade 100 user) please give the following patch at try? http://people.freebsd.org/~marius/t4dwave_sparc64_32-bit.diff This gets at least the line-out of the M5451 in my Blade 1500 working (I've no idea whether its internal speaker is also connected to the sound chip like for example in a Blade 1000 and thus supposed to also work or just to a PC-style beeper, the firmware at least makes it beep that way...), but which also has a newer revision of this chip. Marius
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