Re: can't assign resources -- Sound problem?

> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 18:29:52 -0500
> From: "Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" <[email protected]>
> Sender: [email protected]
> 
> Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
> >>Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 18:05:19 -0500
> >>From: "Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" <[email protected]>
> >>Sender: [email protected]
> >>
> >>Hello all,
> >>    I am running 4.x stable and getting some weird errors on boot. I've 
> >>been getting them for a while (since 4.1 or 4.2) I first noticed them 
> >>when I got the sound to work, but they may have been coming up 
> >>beforethen, and  I decided, finally, to look into them. I think it may 
> >>have something to do with the sound since it is detected in the middle 
> >>of the errors, but I'm not sure. Information follows:
> >>
> >>The laptop is a Compal TS30T which is the same as a Dell Inspiron 3500 
> >>or an HP OmniBook 4150. It has 160MB of RAM.
> >>
> >>flash:data# uname -a
> >>FreeBSD data.mraught.homeip.net 4.7-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE 
> >>#0: Tue Sep  3 06:22:06 EST 2002     
> >>[email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DATA  i386
> >>
> >>and the relevant part of the dmesg:
> >><all normal>
> >>...
> >>ppc0: parallel port not found.
> >>unknown: <PNP0000> can't assign resources
> >>unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources
> >>unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources
> >>pcm0: <CS423x> at port 0x530-0x537,0x388-0x38b,0x220-0x22f irq 9 drq 0,1 
> >>on isa0
> >>unknown: <PNP0f13> can't assign resources
> >>unknown: <PNP0510> can't assign resources
> >>unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources
> >>IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
> >>...
> >></all normal>
> >>
> >>I can post the whole dmesg if anyone is interested or thinks it matters. 
> >>The only other things I can think of that may make a difference is a 
> >>Linksys wireless card and X is still 3.x since I have cvsup'ed since 
> >>before 4.x was the included standard. (and since 3.x caused me some 
> >>problems I'm sure 4.x would too. But I sure love Blackbox)
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >The first simply tells you that the parallel port was not found. This
> >may be because it does not exist, because the port is not enabled in
> >BIOS, or because the device is not in the config. (I doubt the
> >latter.)
> >
> >The unknown PNP devices are "normal" if you have "options PNPBIOS" in
> >your kernel. I prefer not to use that option and have never seen a
> >good reason to do so.
> >
> >The pcm0 message is the sound card with a Crystal Sound 423X chip.
> >
> >Other than the lack of a parallel port (which you might not need), I
> >don't see anything significant here.
> >
> Cool. Thanks. I just wondered about those PNPBIOS errors, but I guess 
> they are normal.
> 
> OTOH: If I were to remove PNPBIOS from the kernel is there any way to 
> still use pcm for my sound? IIRC: I needed PNPBIOS or my sound card 
> wouldn't work.

See LINT. Just configure it manually. Something like:
device pcm0 at isa? port 0x530 irq 9 drq 1 flags 0x10

See the man page for how to configure flags. Looks like 0x10 is right
for yours.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: [email protected]			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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