From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 15:42:54 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 9254516A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:42:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from a.outbound.bsdwebsolutions.com (a.outbound.bsdwebsolutions.com [64.72.68.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B2543D58 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:42:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stuq@dstoys.com) Received: (qmail 15579 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2004 15:42:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.bsdwebsolutions.com) (64.72.68.15) by a.outbound.bsdwebsolutions.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 26 Jul 2004 15:42:32 -0000 Received: from [65.167.123.238] (helo=smtp.dstoys.com) by mail.bsdwebsolutions.com with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.34; FreeBSD) id 1Bp7cW-0000Ud-4n for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:42:32 -0400 Received: (qmail 56968 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2004 15:42:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.0.177?) (stuq@172.16.0.177) by smtp.dstoys.com with SMTP; 26 Jul 2004 15:42:31 -0000 From: Stuart Quimby Organization: Design Science Toys Ltd. To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:47:36 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407261147.36418.stuq@dstoys.com> X-BSD-Recvd-From: [65.167.123.238] (helo=smtp.dstoys.com) X-BSD-Recvd-For: X-BSD-Auth-Id: X-BSD-AntiVirus: Yes [Mon Jul 26 11:42:32 2004] X-BSD-MailFrom: [stuq@dstoys.com] 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 15:42:54 -0000 Thanks for the tip! I'll try upgrading to CURRENT. Stuart On Monday 26 July 2004 09:07 am, Hrant Dadivanyan wrote: > 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" -- Stuart Quimby Pres. Design Science Toys, Ltd. 172 Pleasant Vale Rd. Tivoli, NY 12583 845.756.4221 (fax)4223 stuq@dstoys.com