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Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:14:00 -0700
From:      Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu>
To:        Andrew Reilly <areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au>
Cc:        Sean Lutner <sean@rentul.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, cg@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bad sound output, AudioPCI ES1371, 4.0-STABLE
Message-ID:  <396E14F8.EEF0E5BD@owp.csus.edu>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007120304230.29891-100000@lowrider.lewman.org> <396C8666.8CFE6602@owp.csus.edu> <20000713074720.A32645@gurney.reilly.home>

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Andrew Reilly wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 07:53:27AM -0700, Joseph Scott wrote:
> >
> > Sean Lutner wrote:
> > >
> > > I have the exact same card you do.
> > >
> > > (9) sean@pulse: ~ $ cat /dev/sndstat
> > > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Jun 29 2000 01:10:19
> > > Installed devices:
> > > pcm0: <AudioPCI ES1371> at io 0x1080 irq 5 (1p/1r channels duplex)
> > > (10) sean@pulse: ~ $ dmesg | grep pcm
> > > pcm0: <AudioPCI ES1371> port 0x1080-0x10bf irq 5 at device 15.0 on pci0
> > > (11) sean@pulse: ~ $
> > >
> > > I also have device pcm in my kernel, and I've not have one glitch in my
> > > sound performance. I switch from X to console, I switch back, I switch
> > > desktops, I run lots of memory intensive programs (mozilla, Star Office
> > > 5.2, netscape, etc), and I've seen no performance hits.
> > >
> > > Any other comparisons you'd like to make, I'd be willing to do, compare
> > > configs, specs on machines etc...
> >
> >       Hummmmm.  I'd be very happy to find that I've managed to do something
> > else (besides simply keeping up with -STABLE) that caused this.  I
> > wonder if this could be caused by IRQ conflicts.  Do you have anything
> > else that shows up with IRQ 5?  I believe on mine USB was also listed
> > as using IRQ 5.
> 
> IRQ 5 seems to be an odd one to have attached to a PCI slot.  My
> SB128 (AudioPCI ES1371) seems to be working nicely, but it's on
> IRQ 10 and io range 0xdc00...  (and nothing else is on IRQ 10)
> 
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Jul 10 2000 09:29:43
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <AudioPCI ES1371> at io 0xdc00 irq 10 (1p/1r channels duplex)

	I thought it was kind of funny also.  However, I did some
backtracking through the list archives :

http://x69.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=567867152&CONTEXT=963515485.1286340687&hitnum=22

	So back on the 3rd of Jan this card worked, with the same settings
(irq, etc). 

> >       I also wonder if there's any settings in the BIOS that might have
> > changed to cause this to freak out.
> 
> Most bioses have some sort of tweaks that apply to PCI
> interrupts.

	So far I've had no luck.  I've forced the card to get other irqs, all
with the same exact result.

-- 
Joseph Scott
joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu
Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento


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