From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jan 2 20:20:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF5D37B401 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 20:20:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net (bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F69A43EC2 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 20:20:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0035.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.35] helo=mindspring.com) by bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18UJJJ-0001rs-00; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 20:19:54 -0800 Message-ID: <3E150F12.DEBB976E@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 20:18:26 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Tolbert Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound frustration. References: <20030102213810.P1485-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4e27d3b28b82c91731043bb6658293da7350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Josh Tolbert wrote: > Hi guys, > I have a PC164LX, 533MHz 21164A and 1G RAM. I'm planning on using > the machine for a workstation and sound would be nice. I've been fighting > with this machine sound-wise for about three days now, so I decided to ask > for help. I'm pretty sure that this box has an embedded ESS1888 or CS4231 chip, doesn't it? Can't you use that instead of sticking in your own sound card? Back when I had a 164-based board it has the Crystal Semiconductor sound chip. If not, you might want to try reading: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.6.2R/hardware-alpha.html ...specifically: >>> SET PCI_PARITY OFF There are known parity problems, that could interfere with hardware trying to use the same bus, given that they aren't cleared like you'd expect. > If I put any sound card on the 32-bit bus, I have serious problems > with the IDE drives in the machine. The problems eventually cause the > machine to panic when it tries to detect the drives and eventually times > out. I don't know which bridge this thing has, but a lot of the old PCI bridges used to be limited to 2 bus master DMA devices, and attempts to install more than 2 ended up with bogus mastering negotiations happening. Other than that, you can hope someone else says something... that's all I can say about it, myself, sorry. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message