Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 20:41:58 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: Marc Silver <marcs@is.co.za> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DELL laptops... Message-ID: <19991108204158.12434@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <19991108080008.T6993@is.co.za>; from Marc Silver on Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 08:00:08AM %2B0200 References: <19991105112052.21580@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911051636260.90325-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <19991105115459.55342@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991108080008.T6993@is.co.za>
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On Monday, 8 November 1999 at 8:00:08 +0200, Marc Silver wrote: > On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 11:54:59AM -0500, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 5 November 1999 at 16:36:59 +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: >>> On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> I have a Dell Latitude, and have been relatively happy with it. >>> >>> Could you define 'relatively happy'? ;-) >> >> There are a couple of things that don't work the way I want them: >> >> 1. I can't get the builtin sound card to set the volume as high as >> the Microsoft software does. I suspect it's misrecognizing the >> chip and using a compatibility mode, but I can't get Dell to tell >> me what's in there, let alone how to program it. >> >> 2. I can't run two PCMCIA cards on the machine without trickery: >> there don't seem to be enough spare IRQs. The only way I've been >> able to do it is by disabling the PCIC and using its IRQ for one >> of the cards. This means that if I then pull the card, the >> machine locks up. "Well don't do that then". > > If you're interested, I have the driver running excellently under > Linux for the sound card. I haven't yet loaded FreeBSD on here, as > I was under the impression that Linux had better PCMCIA support. That's only partially the case. I had big trouble with RedHat 6.0 with the same machine. RedHat seems to want to know the exact card, and if it can't find the description, it can't run it. > If you'de like to see the patch for the sound card (for the Linux > kernel) you could perhaps hack it to work on BSD. > > You can get it from http://www.linux.org.za/marcs Thanks. I might take a look at it, but I have just resolved both the problems I describe above. 1. As I suspected, the default configuration entry doesn't suit the sound chip too well. In LINT (but not GENERIC) you'll find: # For non-pnp sound cards only: device pcm0 at isa? port ? irq 10 drq 1 flags 0x0 This gives the following output at boot time: Nov 8 20:17:46 mojave /kernel: pcm0: <SoundBlaster Pro 3.2> at irq 10 drq 1 on isa0 On Søren Schmidt's recommendation, I changed it to device pcm0 at isa? port 0x52c irq 10 drq 1 flags 0x0 With this configuration (just the I/O address set), the system detects a completely different component: Nov 8 20:22:16 mojave /kernel: pcm0: <CS4236> at port 0x52c-0x53b irq 10 drq 1 flags 0xa600 on isa0 That's the first part; the result is much louder. But there's a second part. Run mixer(8) and you'll probably get something like $ mixer Mixer synth is currently set to 0:0 Mixer pcm is currently set to 75:75 Mixer speaker is currently set to 75:75 Mixer line is currently set to 75:75 Mixer mic is currently set to 0:0 Mixer cd is currently set to 75:75 Mixer mix is currently set to 0:0 Mixer igain is currently set to 0:0 Set the volume levels to 100: $ mixer cd 100:100 Setting the mixer cd to 100:100. 2. Getting PCMCIA cards to work. I haven't done anything here. AFAIK they still don't work under 3.3-RELEASE, but recent changes in 4.0-CURRENT mean that my particular combination does work there. Please don't go out and install -CURRENT on your laptop, though. PCMCIA support on -CURRENT is in a very poor state, and most cards no longer work; I'm just lucky. But it does show that there's nothing wrong with the Latitude. > P.S. I would CC the list on this, but my mails seem to be getting > refused to the list, and I haven't yet had the time to fix the > problem. :) I haven't had time to check, but you're arriving here without a reverse resolution of your sending host: Received: from mercury.is.co.za ([196.4.160.222]) mail.FreeBSD.org refuses mail from systems whose reverse DNS doesn't look, so I suspect this is what's biting you. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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-questions" in the body of the message
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