Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:54:34 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Fabrice <FabriceMarchant@free.fr>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Loading module for sound chip SiS 7102 Message-ID: <42056ACA.4070402@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <20050205184800.4ACB52BC45D@postfix4-2.free.fr> References: <20050204201505.A75EDC031@postfix3-2.free.fr> <420404F1.7070802@nbritton.org> <42040BA0.2030308@nbritton.org> <20050205184800.4ACB52BC45D@postfix4-2.free.fr>
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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.
>>>_______________________________________________
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>>>"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: <SiS 7012> port 0xd800-0xd83f, 0xdc00-0xdcff irq 11 at device 2.7 on
>pci 0
>pcm0: [GIANT_LOCKED]
>pcm0:<C-Media Electronics CMI9738 AC97 Codec >
>
>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: <SiS 7012> 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...
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