From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 6 15:56:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.jakinternet.co.uk (proxy.jakinternet.co.uk [212.41.43.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D822B37BAAD for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 15:56:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk) Received: from smtp.jakinternet.co.uk (smtp.jakinternet.co.uk [212.41.41.61]) by smtp2.jakinternet.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id CF3B3A776F for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 23:54:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from vilnya.demon.co.uk ([212.41.35.79]) by smtp.jakinternet.co.uk ; Sun, 06 Aug 2000 23:55:42 -0100 Received: from haveblue (haveblue.rings [10.2.4.5]) by vilnya.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B594D9B6; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 23:55:33 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <00b801bffff9$33cb6310$0504020a@haveblue> From: "Cameron Grant" To: "Ollivier Robert" , "FreeBSD Current Users' list" References: <20000806202735.A1224@keltia.freenix.fr> <00ae01bffff4$2959fe50$0504020a@haveblue> <20000807003033.A50498@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: [Neomagic] newpcm problems under current Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 23:53:51 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > According to Cameron Grant: > > this is a known problem. it seems the neomagic driver never worked right, > Well, it used to work :) it used to *appear* to work. > > so when newpcm became dependant on interrupts it ceased functioning. now we > > trap the lack of irqs and disable the channel and emit a warning to the > > console. > I do get lots of interrupt. I patched my kernel in June to generate a printf > for each interrupt and I was seeing lots of them without even running mpg123. is the irq shared? have your printf display the neomagic status - i'll bet it's 0 indicating the irq was not generated by the neomagic. > > access to hardware would make this easier to fix. > > I would be difficult to send you my laptop, I do use it :-) :) -cg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message