From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 18 18:07:11 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDFA3106567B for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:07:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigknife-pt.tunnel.tserv9.chi1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f10:75::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C49528FC20 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:07:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 26457B944; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:07:11 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:33:32 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-CBSD-20110714-p17; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201209181233.32205.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:07:11 -0400 (EDT) Cc: "C. G." Subject: Re: ASUS Xonar DX sound card not detected at boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:07:12 -0000 On Monday, September 17, 2012 3:19:31 pm C. G. wrote: > > I'm using PC-BSD 9.0 with FreeBSD 9.0 kernel x86 and at boot, I see a message "Unindentified sound card... please report @ PC-BSD support..." something like that. > > So, I directly expose the problem to the FreeBSD hardware team because it's a FreeBSD lack of driver. > > Here is the output of my "lspci -v" command concerning this sound card : > > > 02:00.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX8112 x1 Lane PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev aa) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 > Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=64 > I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff > Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ > Capabilities: [60] Express PCI/PCI-X Bridge, MSI 00 > > 03:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] > Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Virtuoso 100 (Xonar DX) > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 > I/O ports at d800 > Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 > > > In fact, I think that the "Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]" is already supported on FreeBSD, but this sound card has something special : it's not a native PCI-E sound card, but a native PCI one, so it uses the "PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX8112 x1 Lane PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev aa)" as a bridge to communicate with the motherboard. And THIS component isn't supported! No, that wouldn't matter. Bridges are fairly standard. It would be helpful to get pciconf -l output so we could see the actual device and vendor ID register values. -- John Baldwin