From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 6 00:54:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F17916A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:54:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92.asp.att.net [63.240.76.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A1D43D1D for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:54:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with ESMTP id <20050206005435i92004u2ihe>; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:54:35 +0000 Message-ID: <42056ACA.4070402@nbritton.org> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:54:34 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050202) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fabrice , freebsd-questions References: <20050204201505.A75EDC031@postfix3-2.free.fr> <420404F1.7070802@nbritton.org> <42040BA0.2030308@nbritton.org> <20050205184800.4ACB52BC45D@postfix4-2.free.fr> In-Reply-To: <20050205184800.4ACB52BC45D@postfix4-2.free.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Loading module for sound chip SiS 7102 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 00:54:37 -0000 Fabrice wrote: >On Saturday 05 February 2005 00:56, you wrote: > > >>Nikolas Britton wrote: >> >> >>>Nikolas Britton wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Fabrice wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Hi ! >>>>> >>>>>Debian user just have installed FreeBSD 5.3. >>>>>Seems great ! >>>>> >>>>>But I my sound chip do not properly work. >>>>> >>>>>I tried to : >>>>> >>>>>kldload snd_... >>>>> >>>>>pilots one by one until I found snd_ich pilot that made some sound >>>>>when KDE 3.3 launch >>>>>(and suppress the error about /dev/dsp ) >>>>> >>>>>But the sound works 2 seconds only and becomes then silently stuck ! >>>>> >>>>>After loading pilot : >>>>>kldload snd_ich >>>>> >>>>>the Sis chip seems to be seen. I get the following msg : >>>>> >>>>>pcm0: SiS 7012 port 0xd800-0xd63f, 0xdc00-0xdcff IRQ 11 at dev >>>>>2.7 on PCI 0 >>>>> ICH0: (GIANT_LOCKED) >>>>> >>>>>This SiS sound chip properly works on Debian linux on the same machine. >>>>>But I remember that it was hard to find the right pilot with Linux... >>>>> >>>>>Can you give me any advice, please ? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>Yea, find a better translation service... Put these in >>>>/boot/loader.conf: >>>>sound_load="YES" >>>>snd_driver_load="YES" >>>>hw.snd.maxautovchans=4 >>>> >>>>After that reboot and grep dmesg (dmesg |grep -i foo) for anything >>>>related to sound; snd, pcm, AC97, etc. Then you could check sndstat >>>>and see what it says (cat /dev/sndstat) but it should say about the >>>>same as dmesg (your are doing this to find out which drivers to >>>>load). The next step now would be to test the sound system at the >>>>console, make and install the ports cplay and splay (both are under >>>>/usr/ports/audio) then using cplay* play some mp3s. If you can hear >>>>music then everything's good to go (if you still can't hear music in >>>>X then the problem is with X or your music player, etc.) but if you >>>>still can't hear music then post this question to freebsd questions >>>>mailing list (You could also try changing the IRQ it uses or set >>>>PnP_OS=no in the BIOS, it should be set to this anyways for >>>>FreeBSD!... in general, play with the BIOS settings). >>>> >>>>*cplay's config file, you shouldn't need it but to cover all >>>>bases..., copy and paste it to your home directory, ".cplayrc": >>>> >>>>PLAYERS = [ >>>> FrameOffsetPlayer("ogg123 -q -v -k %d %s", "\.ogg$"), >>>> FrameOffsetPlayer("splay -f -k %d %s", "(^http://|\.mp[123]$)", >>>>38.28), >>>> FrameOffsetPlayer("mpg123 -q -v -k %d %s", >>>>"(^http://|\.mp[123]$)", 38.28), >>>> FrameOffsetPlayer("mpg321 -q -v -k %d %s", >>>>"(^http://|\.mp[123]$)", 38.28), >>>> TimeOffsetPlayer("madplay -v --no-tty-control >>>>--display-time=remaining -s %d %s", "\.mp[123]$"), >>>> NoOffsetPlayer("mikmod -q -p0 %s", >>>>"\.(mod|xm|fm|s3m|med|col|669|it|mtm)$"), >>>> NoOffsetPlayer("xmp -q %s", >>>>"\.(mod|xm|fm|s3m|med|col|669|it|mtm|stm)$"), >>>> NoOffsetPlayer("play %s", "\.(aiff|au|cdr|mp3|ogg|wav)$"), >>>> NoOffsetPlayer("speexdec %s", "\.spx$") >>>> ] >>>> >>>>I wish they'd get email working again (list server was blacklisted), >>>>Nikolas >>>> >>>> >>>Sorry I should have given a bit more info at the start of my reply. >>>Putting those lines in loader.conf will load the sound subsystem >>>(pcm), I don't think it's needed as I think "snd_driver_load" will >>>load it but I'm not sure so... and you'll need it afterwords, all of >>>the sound drivers, and setup up to 4 virtual audio channels as needed, >>>automatically. The part about dmesg etc. should be done last, look in >>>/boot/defaults/loader.conf (starting at line 255) to find the drivers >>>you want to load, remove snd_driver_load from /boot/loader.conf and >>>add the drivers that your card is using there. I think your problem is >>>that you just didn't have any virtual channels setup, KDE would then >>>hog the sound system and then you wouldn't hear anything else, but >>>thats just an educated guess, donno I use cplay even when i'm in X. >>>and only one of the list servers was blacklisted (the main one), your >>>email was one of the few I got today. >>>_______________________________________________ >>>freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list >>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies >>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>>"freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >>> >>Also, here is the FreeBSD handbook in french: >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/fr_FR.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/fr_FR.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia.html >> >>googles translation service sucks, this is what I get when I converted >>it to french and then back into english: >>Moreover, here the handbook of French FreeBSD >> >>:-) >> >> > >Thank you very much for your prompt detailed and accurate answer ! >Sorry for the poor english language... (It's much easer for me to unterstand >what other people write.) > >Unfortunately, when I touched my up to now virgin "/boot/loader.conf" to put >lines like these : >sound_load="YES" >or >snd_driver_load="YES" > >(except hw.snd.maxautovchans=4, I took the lines from >/boot/defaults/loader.conf, as is) > > I don't understand what you meant by this? >according to that you suggest and that can be read in the handbook in >"installing sound" section, > >the system complains : > >loading /boot/loader.conf >Warning: syntax error >snd_ich="YES" > ^ >(Showing the error with "^" like some compilers or interpreters do) > > That should be snd_ich_load="YES" >However it is possible to work manually : >Loading the driver "snd_ich" that detects the SiS chipset : >kldload snd_ich >-> >pcm0: port 0xd800-0xd83f, 0xdc00-0xdcff irq 11 at device 2.7 on >pci 0 >pcm0: [GIANT_LOCKED] >pcm0: > >and setup the number of virtual channels to 4 as you suggest but using the >control : >sysctl hw.snd.maxautovchans=4 >-> >hw.snd.maxautovchans: 0 -> 4 > >After these things here is the "/dev/sndstat" : > >FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) >Installed devices: >pcm0: at io 0xdc00, 0xd800 irq 11 bufsz 16384 kld snd_ich >(1p/1r/1v channels duplex default) > >"dmesg" gives same infos. > >After this a sound is emitted when KDE launches but after about 1 second, the >sound system seems to hang. > >Here are the info that I can collect on my debian Linux system that runs in >the same computer, driving the SiS 7102 correctly : > >D800-D8FF SiS7102 PCI Audio Accelerator >DC00-DCFF SiS7102 PCI Audio Accelerator >XT-PIC SiS7102 on interrupt 11 >PCI 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller SiS7102 PCI Audio Accelerator (rev a0) >Subsystem: C-media Electronics Inc : unknown device 0300 >Flags : bus master, medium devsel. latency 64, IRQ 11 >I/O ports at DC00 [size=256] >I/O ports at D800 [size=64] >Capabilities [48] Power Management version 2 > >FreeBSD 5.3 and debian Woody say very similar things about the SiS 7102 >chipset... > >Otherwise... >I checked the BIOS setup : PnP_OS=no, all right for this. >(But I do not know how I could change SiS7102 interrupt) > > Thats ok, it's just one of those things that nice to play with when hardware isn't working correctly. >I installed splay and cplay and edited a ".cplayrc" file with a >FrameOffsetPlayer "splay") >But no sound even in pure console mode, outside X. > > You edited .cplayrc? what do you mean by this? you should not have to edit the .cplayrc file, plus it's not required that you even have one. I recommend you just delete the .cplayrc and and try playing music again without it. >Thank you again for your interesting explanations. > >Regards. > >Fabrice. > > I'm going to cc this to the freebsd questions list, maybe they can help you more then I could. Regards...