Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 22:20:44 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Josh Tolbert <hemi@scoundrelz.net> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound frustration. Message-ID: <20030103222044.A98120@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030103150747.P25893-100000@view.scoundrelz.net>; from hemi@scoundrelz.net on Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 03:12:39PM -0600 References: <15893.61977.617126.551476@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20030103150747.P25893-100000@view.scoundrelz.net>
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On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 03:12:39PM -0600, Josh Tolbert wrote: > > Huh? Its an alpha.. PCI dma is handled separately, by the core-logic > > chipset (21174 pyxis). There are no DMA channels for PCI devices. > > > > However, there are some cards which the SRM fails to setup properly. > > For example, some ATA cards get IO ports which are higher than > > they expect and barf. Perhaps this is what's happening to the > > happless user who started this thread. > > I think this may be the case with the PCI sound cards. Every > single one of them I tried wasn't identified by the manufacturer in SRM, > like every other card in the machine was. The PCI sound cards are just > identified by two sets of numbers, which I guess correspond to vendor ID > and part number. PCI sound cards were never qualified by DEC/CPQ for use in Alphas. The SRM has a hardcoded list of things it knows about. That list is not overly long ;) -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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