From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jul 15 18:57:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ED9B37B595 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 18:57:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA58853; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:27:31 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:27:30 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Steve Jorgensen Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 7500 sound configuration Message-ID: <20000716112730.A57098@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200007131705.LAA20275@zen.alb.khoral.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200007131705.LAA20275@zen.alb.khoral.com> 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-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 13 July 2000 at 11:05:48 -0600, Steve Jorgensen wrote: > > I'm trying to get sound working on my Dell Inspiron 7500 > notebook under FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE as of July 11. It has the ESS > Technology Maestro 2E Audio controlloer in it. After a search > of the archives, it looks like it isn't supported under > 4.0, however, the latest artical I found talking about it > was Feb 2000. So, I'm hoping that progress has been made since > then. :) Anyway, I've defined > > device pcm0 > device sbc0 > > in my Kernel config, and I've attached the output of a > dmesg. Is it possible to get audio working? If so > how? Thanks for any help. Unfortunately, we currently don't have support for this chip. If you want to lend your laptop to a developer for a few weeks, you might get it :-) > ata1-slave: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr > ata1-slave: identify failed > ad0: 28615MB [58140/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 > acd0: DVD-ROM at ata1-master using PIO4 Hmm, they've brought out a new top-end disk. How old is this machine? Do you hear any clicking noises from the disk? A number of us have reported this problem on the "old" 25 GB disks. 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-mobile" in the body of the message