From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 2 0:42:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E82237B6D7; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 00:42:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA35151; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:12:19 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:12:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass Cc: Darryl Okahata , Mike Smith , Jay Kuri , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron Message-ID: <20000802171219.L36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000801231512.046c0650@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000801231512.046c0650@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:20:56PM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 1 August 2000 at 23:20:56 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 07:16 PM 8/1/2000, Darryl Okahata wrote: > >> Whatever you have, it's not an Inspiron 7500-clone. The sound on >> the 7500 uses only one IRQ (#5). >> >> You could try using polling mode for the pcic. That should free up >> IRQ 10. Also, go into the BIOS and disable everything that you don't >> use. On my 7500, I've disabled the IR port and the parallel port. >> >> You also haven't provided a (verbose, preferably) dmesg, which is >> pretty much mandatory if you want help for these problems. > > Here's a dmesg. Note that I've forced the pcic to IRQ 9. The default was > 10, and since 5 and 11 are committed (5 to the sound card, 11 to video) > leaving it at 10 would leave no IRQ for ep0. You could have used IRQ 9. I do. > In short, if I did the standard install from floppies, the machine > couldn't allocate an IRQ for the Ethernet card and therefore > couldn't complete the install. I don't understand why it's so > restrictive about the IRQs it will allow to be used for PCMCIA. Hmm. Why are you installing from floppy? > FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jul 27 04:44:16 GMT 2000 > root@usw4.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz > CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (497.84-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x681 Stepping = 1 > Features=0x383f9ff > real memory = 67043328 (65472K bytes) > avail memory = 61087744 (59656K bytes) > Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc040d000. > Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc040d09c. > Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled > md0: Malloc disk > npx0: on motherboard > npx0: INT 16 interface > pcib0: on motherboard > pci0: on pcib0 > pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 > pci1: on pcib1 > pci1: at 0.0 irq 11 > pcic-pci0: at device 4.0 on pci0 > pcic-pci0: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: [ring enable][speaker enable][pwr save][FUNC pci int + CSC serial isa irq] > pcic-pci1: at device 4.1 on pci0 > pcic-pci1: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: [ring enable][speaker enable][pwr save][FUNC pci int + CSC serial isa irq] > isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 > isa0: on isab0 > atapci0: port 0x1050-0x105f at device 7.1 on pci0 > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > uhci0: port 0x1060-0x107f irq 5 at device 7.2 on pci0 > usb0: on uhci0 > usb0: USB revision 1.0 > uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 > uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered > uhub0: port 1 power on failed, IOERROR > uhub0: port 2 power on failed, IOERROR > chip1: port 0x1040-0x104f at device 7.3 on pci0 > chip2: port 0x1400-0x14ff irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci0 > pci0: (vendor=0x11c1, dev=0x0449) at 16.0 irq 5 > fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 > fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold > fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 > atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 > atkbd0: flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 > kbd0 at atkbd0 > psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 > psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 > vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 > sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 > sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> > pcic0: at port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000 irq 9 drq 0 on isa0 > pcic0: management irq 9 Here's the first difference from the dmesg from my 7500. I'm using pcic0 in polling mode, as some others have suggested. > pccard0: on pcic0 > pccard1: on pcic0 > sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 > sio0: type 16550A > ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 > ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode > ppi0: on ppbus0 > lpt0: on ppbus0 > lpt0: Interrupt-driven port > plip0: on ppbus0 At this point, I get the following additional messages: + unknown0: at port 0x80 iomem 0xfff80000-0xffffffff on isa0 + unknown1: at iomem 0-0x9ffff,0xe8000-0xfffff,0x100000-0x7ffffff on isa0 + unknown2: at port 0-0xf,0x81-0x8f,0xc0-0xdf drq 4 on isa0 + unknown: can't assign resources + unknown3: at port 0x40-0x43 irq 0 on isa0 + unknown4: at port 0x70-0x71 irq 8 on isa0 + unknown: can't assign resources + npxisa0: at port 0xf0-0xff irq 13 on isa0 + unknown5: at port 0x61 on isa0 + unknown6: at port 0xcf8-0xcff on isa0 + unknown7: at port 0x4d0-0x4d1,0x1000-0x103f,0x1040-0x104f,0x10-0x18,0x1f,0x24-0x25,0x28-0x29,0x2c-0x2d,0x30-0x31,0x34-0x35,0x38-0x39,0x3c-0x3d,0x50-0x52,0x72-0x77,0x90-0x9f,0xa4-0xa5,0xa8-0xa9,0xac-0xad,0xb0-0xbd on isa0 + unknown8: at iomem 0xdc000-0xdffff on isa0 + unknown9: on isa0 + unknown: can't assign resources + unknown: can't assign resources + unknown: can't assign resources This may be because this is 5-CURRENT. It obviously doesn't change very much. > pccard: card inserted, slot 0 > ata1-slave: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr > ata1-slave: identify failed > ad0: 11513MB [23392/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 > acd0: DVD-ROM at ata1-master using PIO4 > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > logo_saver: no suitable graphics mode > module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (logo_saver, c0d6fa60, 0) error 19 > ep0: <3Com Etherlink III 3C589> at port 0x240-0x24f irq 10 slot 0 on pccard0 > ep0: Ethernet address 0a:0b:0c:0d:0e:0f OK, this looks pretty much like the Inspiron 7500. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message