From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 3 22:23:23 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A685C16A418 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 22:23:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DBFC13C458 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 22:23:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l93MNGQT066196 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:23:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daleco.biz Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ezekiel.daleco.biz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 3qP6vSfhntwo for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:23:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz (dsl.daleco.biz [209.125.108.70]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l93MNBWB066186 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:23:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <47041649.8080008@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:23:05 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070418 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Advice on "new" hardware.... (long post) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:23:23 -0000 Hello, Out of necessity, I recently replaced my workstation motherboard (old one was apparently suffering a breakdown in the IDE controller chip). Funds being rather low, I opted for a fairly low priced "combo" deal from a well-known online retailer. I may be regretting that now. I'm having a few ACPI related error messages, some problems with USB, Xorg doesn't look too pretty, and sound isn't running. Booting with ACPI off doesn't seem to help, and makes USB worse. BIOS date is July of this year, and so far I'm not actually sure were to look for any update (appears to be a PcChips board [yeah, I know]) and I wonder if there'd be an update anyway, so soon. The main ACPI problem that is evident is simply the error message: "acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd, ignored (-269.2C)". That can be ignored, but I'm guessing that most of the other problems are probably related to FBSD and this board's ACPI tables not "playing nice" with each other. Any chance at all I'm right? Sound problem is the biggie, and it seems to be here: # cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: pcm0: at io 0xd800, 0xd400 irq 18 bufsz 16384 kld snd_ich (1p/1r/1v channels duplex default) # dmesg | grep pcm pcm0: port 0xd800-0xd8ff,0xd400-0xd47f irq 18 at device 2.7 on pci0 pcm0: AC97 reset timed out. pcm0: pcm0: ac97 codec reports dac not ready pcm0: ac97 link rate calibration timed out after 1868021 us And this is logged by the kernel after "play foo.wav": kernel: pcm0:virtual:0:dsp0.2: play interrupt timeout, channel dead The above are "symptoms" (along with the fact that there's no sound); is it likely that the problem is related to this?: # pciconf -lv | grep -A4 pcm pcm0@pci0:2:7: class=0x040100 card=0x18801019 chip=0x70121039 rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)' device = 'SiS7013 PCI Audio Accelerator' class = multimedia subclass = audio It's not really a 7012, but a 7013 chip. /sys/dev/sound/pci/ich.c indicates that the 7012 "needs special handling" and that the "7012 register isn't like the standard ICH". I'm guessing that either the 7013 *is* more like the standard ICH, or else it's different even than the 7012, because it doesn't seem to wanna play right with pcm(4) when it thinks it's a 7012.... The USB problem so far isn't a biggie; it's worst when I boot without ACPI; then I can't get USB to function at all (use it for the mouse, mainly, and can work around that with a PS/2 mouse, I guess). So, is there any hope for this hardware? I could try HEAD, I guess, but it doesn't appear that any work's been done in ICH on HEAD for 2 months or so (I'm currently running STABLE from yesterday). What about the ACPI? Should I beg over on hackers@? Anybody wanna donate a nice modern mobo set? [, just had to ask]. Thanks for any insight! Kevin Kinsey -- Senate, n.: A body of elderly gentlemen charged with high duties and misdemeanors. -- Ambrose Bierce