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Date:      Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:29:03 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Cc:        "local.freebsd.stable" <freebsd-stable-local@insignia.com>, "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: A couple of problems going from 4.5 to 4.7
Message-ID:  <3DB028BF.1070305@owt.com>
References:  <3.0.5.32.20021018082814.01430940@mail.sage-one.net>

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Jack L. Stone wrote:
> At 10:11 AM 10.18.2002 +0100, local.freebsd.stable wrote:
> 
>>I did an upgrade from 4.5 to 4.7 on an Asus
>>Terminator Tualatin. Now, dmesg shows me:
>>
>>
>>>pcm0: <SiS 7018> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xea000000-0xea000fff irq 10 at
>>
>>device 1
>>
>>>.4 on pci0
>>>codec timeout writing 0, data 0
>>>codec timeout during read of register 26
>>>codec timeout during read of register 26
>>>codec timeout during read of register 26
>>
>>after a few hundred of these I get:
>>
>>
>>>pcm0: AC97 reset timed out.codec timeout writing 26, data 0
>>>codec timeout during read of register 0
>>>codec timeout during read of register 7c
>>>codec timeout during read of register 7e
>>
>>This goes on for a bit, then:
>>
>>
>>>codec timeout during read of register 26
>>>pcm0: ac97 codec reports dac not ready
>>>codec timeout writing 1c, data 8000
>>>codec timeout writing 1a, data 0
>>
>>This is not a problem since the machine is used as a
>>router/firewall and sound is unimportant, so for a
>>workaround I'll remove pcm from the kernel (I can't
>>recall now why I added it in the first place).
>>
>>I couldn't find anything obvious in /usr/src/UPDATING
>>or the LINT kernel config file.
>>
>>The other problem is that the adsl.sh script which 
>>fires up ppp with the pppoa daemon for DSL access
>>via an Alcatel USB modem fails when run during
>>bootup, but works if run a few minutes later. I'm
>>still investigating this.
>>
>>jim
>>
> 
> 
> I have a ASUS too and on the AC97 (as with any other MBs), I just disabled
> it in the BIOS. If you don't do that and take pcm0 out of the kernel,
> you'll still have to put up with the "unknown card" message (but harmless I
> guess) in dmesg.
> 
> Don't know about the other stuff.
> 

I had to use

# Add sound
device          pcm
options         PNPBIOS

To get AC97 sound on my Gigabyte GA-7VAXP.

Kent

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html


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