Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 07:41:50 -0800 (PST) From: The Utz Family <utz@serv.net> To: Mike Porter <mupi@mknet.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: BSD not finding ESS 1878 sound chip... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.10102140725350.12060-100000@itchy.serv.net> In-Reply-To: <01021309103000.66888@mukappa.home.com>
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Mike Porter wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 <snip> > > I have an older ARM laptop that I have been beating my head against the wall <snip> > pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum this be plenty bad here...... > pnpbios: bad pnpbios checksum? That shouldn't affect the multimedia stuff, > should it? hell yes! your pnp system has fallen over dead! :-) most sound architectures are PnP aware/dependent. > but the real interesting line is the chip1 line.... > > isn't 8086 intel? but what is device 1234? anybody? My best guess is that > the ESS chip is somehow "hiding" behind this chip, and since nothing is > loading for it, pcm never has a chance to see it. well, not having looked at the code, i am going to guess that chip1, 8086 and 1234 are placeholder values that some diligent dev added to their code so that the system wouldnt crash if the probe failed to get started ( with 'starting' coming before 'failing', u would be making progess if you could get it to fail :-) ) my first guess wouold be to toggle the Plug and Play OS settings in the BIOS (meaning that whatever it sez now, make it the other value, yes, no, true, false, etc ) you might also try running 'pnpinfo' but i'll bet it dumps core....or at least fails immediately with words to the effect of 'PnP not intitialized...exiting' oh, and the other thing to check, is the soundcard support even tunred on in the bios, usually bios's have an option to turn onboard sound off. have you heard the sound work in windows? the other thing to do is to go into the bios and manually assign the dma and interrupt for the sound parts. but i wouldnt do that until i tried to sort out the pnp stuff. u might also visit the manufacurers website and see if there is a bios update. best of luck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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