Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 18:29:52 -0500 From: "Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" <mraught@acm.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: can't assign resources -- Sound problem? Message-ID: <3D793A70.90203@acm.org> References: <20020906222148.8683F5D03@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote: >>Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 18:05:19 -0500 >>From: "Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" <mraught@acm.org> >>Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG >> >>Hello all, >> I am running 4.x stable and getting some weird errors on boot. I've >>been getting them for a while (since 4.1 or 4.2) I first noticed them >>when I got the sound to work, but they may have been coming up >>beforethen, and I decided, finally, to look into them. I think it may >>have something to do with the sound since it is detected in the middle >>of the errors, but I'm not sure. Information follows: >> >>The laptop is a Compal TS30T which is the same as a Dell Inspiron 3500 >>or an HP OmniBook 4150. It has 160MB of RAM. >> >>flash:data# uname -a >>FreeBSD data.mraught.homeip.net 4.7-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE >>#0: Tue Sep 3 06:22:06 EST 2002 >>root@data.mraught.homeip.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DATA i386 >> >>and the relevant part of the dmesg: >><all normal> >>... >>ppc0: parallel port not found. >>unknown: <PNP0000> can't assign resources >>unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources >>unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources >>pcm0: <CS423x> at port 0x530-0x537,0x388-0x38b,0x220-0x22f irq 9 drq 0,1 >>on isa0 >>unknown: <PNP0f13> can't assign resources >>unknown: <PNP0510> can't assign resources >>unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources >>IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing. >>... >></all normal> >> >>I can post the whole dmesg if anyone is interested or thinks it matters. >>The only other things I can think of that may make a difference is a >>Linksys wireless card and X is still 3.x since I have cvsup'ed since >>before 4.x was the included standard. (and since 3.x caused me some >>problems I'm sure 4.x would too. But I sure love Blackbox) >> >> > >The first simply tells you that the parallel port was not found. This >may be because it does not exist, because the port is not enabled in >BIOS, or because the device is not in the config. (I doubt the >latter.) > >The unknown PNP devices are "normal" if you have "options PNPBIOS" in >your kernel. I prefer not to use that option and have never seen a >good reason to do so. > >The pcm0 message is the sound card with a Crystal Sound 423X chip. > >Other than the lack of a parallel port (which you might not need), I >don't see anything significant here. > >R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer >Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) >Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) >E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > > Cool. Thanks. I just wondered about those PNPBIOS errors, but I guess they are normal. OTOH: If I were to remove PNPBIOS from the kernel is there any way to still use pcm for my sound? IIRC: I needed PNPBIOS or my sound card wouldn't work. thanks for the info, -mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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