Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:14:10 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Christian Ramseyer <rc@networkz.ch> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Audio on Sunblade 100 Message-ID: <20090819161410.GA19351@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <20090818192748.GA6585@alchemy.franken.de> References: <4A7C6B50.3070503@networkz.ch> <20090817205340.GA75477@alchemy.franken.de> <20090817215612.GB75477@alchemy.franken.de> <20090818192748.GA6585@alchemy.franken.de>
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On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:27:48PM +0200, Marius Strobl wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:56:12PM +0200, Marius Strobl wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:53:40PM +0200, Marius Strobl wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 07:58:40PM +0200, Christian Ramseyer wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > I'm trying to get sound on a Sunblade 100 with 7.2R. I've added > > > > > > > > device sound > > > > device snd_t4dwave > > > > > > > > to the kernel and recompiled. pciconf shows an attached driver: > > > > > > > > pcm0@pci0:0:8:0: class=0x040100 card=0x545110b9 chip=0x545110b9 > > > > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > > > > vendor = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi/ULi)' > > > > device = 'ALI M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device' > > > > class = multimedia > > > > subclass = audio > > > > > > > > However, there are errors in dmesg: > > > > > > > > pcm0: <Acer Labs M5451> port 0x900-0x9ff mem 0x424000-0x424fff at device > > > > 8.0 on pci0 > > > > pcm0: <Analog Devices AD1881A AC97 Codec> > > > > pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > > > > pcm0: [ITHREAD] > > > > pcm0: chn_init(pcm0:record:dsp0.r0) failed: err = 19 > > > > pcm0: pcm_chn_create(trrchan, -1, 0xfffff80001370800) failed > > > > pcm0: chn_init(pcm0:play:dsp0.p0) failed: err = 19 > > > > pcm0: pcm_chn_create(trpchan, 1, 0xfffff80001370800) failed > > > > > > > > I've also found this message from 2006: > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-sparc64/2006-June/004168.html > > > > > > > > So, am I just doing something wrong or are there problems with 5451 > > > > audio on SPARC? I see that the release notes only list i386 and amd64 as > > > > architectures for the t4dwave driver. > > > > > > > > By the way, thanks a lot for all the work your guys are doing in general > > > > and for the SPARC port in particular. I'm currently trying BSD for the > > > > first time in my life and I like it a lot. It runs surprisingly well on > > > > this outdated platform. > > > > > > > > > > Could you (or any other Blade 100 user) please give the following > > > patch at try? > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~marius/t4dwave_sparc64_32-bit.diff > > > This gets at least the line-out of the M5451 in my Blade 1500 > > > working (I've no idea whether its internal speaker is also > > > connected to the sound chip like for example in a Blade 1000 > > > and thus supposed to also work or just to a PC-style beeper, > > > the firmware at least makes it beep that way...), but which > > > also has a newer revision of this chip. > > > > > > > Looks like I've spoken to soon; it only works when it happens > > to get certain buffer addresses, otherwise nothing is played > > and the interrupt times out (which according to google isn't > > a sparc64 specific problem). This probably means that some > > bus_dma(9) parameters are incorrect... > > > > Ok, I think I've identified the incorrect bus_dma(9) settings > with the help of Tatsuo YOKOGAWA's ali(4) (which as least for > the alignment requirement also matches the NetBSD autri(4). A > new patch is at: > http://people.freebsd.org/~marius/t4dwave_M5451_32-bit.diff > This version now also basically works with the GENIALstation > 777s, but there seems to be a problem with ac94(4) on that > machine or it's wired strangely as I've to turn on the > "PhoneOut" output in the mixer in order to get sound and its > quality is likewise, though with the Blade 1500 all seems > fine. If someone could test how far this patch gets things > into working with Blade 100 that would be great. > FYI, according to the OpenSolaris source, SPARC machines with AC97-based on-board audio use the AC97 MONO_OUT for the internal speaker, which in FreeBSD is mapped to PhoneOut. Turning the latter on in the Blade 1500 indeed gets its internal speaker going with a decent quality. This also means that in the GENIALstation 777s the "stereo" jack is wired to a mono output, which probably explains the lousy sound quality. Marius
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