From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 13:07:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9386E16A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:07:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from styx.aic.net (styx.aic.net [195.250.64.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1108B43D55 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:07:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ran@styx.aic.net) Received: from ran by styx.aic.net with local (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1Bp5CK-000OM4-H6; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:07:20 +0500 In-Reply-To: <200407221351.31787.stuq@dstoys.com> To: Stuart Quimby Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:07:20 +0500 (AMST) X-PGP: http://styx.aic.net/pgpkeys/ran.asc X-NCC-RegID: am.nic X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: From: Hrant Dadivanyan cc: FreeBSD Laptoppers Subject: Re: working the bugs out of a Sony GRX650 - interrupts and the sound card X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:07:24 -0000 Hi Stuart, You also should have difficulties with memory stick, second PC card slot and sometimes USB, correct ? AFAIK, Sony GRX and GR series have the same issue with interrupts delivery, when no interrupts are received by driver. vmstat -i should confirm it. I own GR300 and after two years fight found a workaround to get at least sound to work with STABLE - since video and sound share the same irq 9 as almost everything in this Sony design, if you configure kernel and X to use DRI (http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/), it will produce enough interrupts the sound to work well. Two weeks ago I have installed CURRENT and found that everything works pretty well in generic install. Also during these days CURRENT looks much stable with my laptop than STABLE. Thanks to all people working on FreeBSD ! Hope it help you, Hrant > Hi all, > > I'm running 4.9-RELEASE on my lapper and have been trying for over a year to > get the sound card running properly. I'm probably 'medium' level in my OS > skills, so there may be something basic that I'm missing. > > Dmesg reports the following on the card: > pcm0: port 0x18c0-0x18ff,0x1c00-0x1cff irq 9 at device > 31.5 on pci0 > pcm0: > > I have the same behavior I've heard others mention on this list: the sound > works fine as long as I wiggle the mouse - presumably this is generating > enough interrupts to keep the sound steady. > > I've tried both Intel ICH and the generic snd_driver and get identical (bad) > results. > > Anyone have this model and get it running properly? > > Thanks. > > > > -- > > Stuart Quimby > Pres. Design Science Toys, Ltd. > 172 Pleasant Vale Rd. > Tivoli, NY 12583 > 845.756.4221 (fax)4223 > stuq@dstoys.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Hrant Dadivanyan (aka Ran d'Adi) ran(at)amnic.net /* "Feci quod potui, faciant meliora potentes." */ ran(at)styx.aic.net