On Fri, 13 Jun 103, Poul Petersen wrote:
> > > I think there is something else going on here. I can not get
> > > sound to work with either the OSS drivers or ALSA, but it does work
> > > under Windows (so I know the hardware is OK). As I mentioned before, I
> > > can get both OSS and ALSA working with an extra sound card I have lying
> > > around, so I know I'm doing the steps correctly, it just seems that
> > > neither the OSS or ALSA driver correctly supports the onboard hardware. As
> > > another data point, I just tried the commercial OSS driver and it works
> > > with the onboard sound so I'm pretty sure it is not a hardware problem.
> >
> > i wrote hardware "set-up". it doesn't mean that the hardware is
> > broken. as mentioned above, the power-management might play a role
> > here, which is basically a job of the kernel core.
>
> Power-management? How would that affect the sound driver? I
> thought you were talking about APIC - the extended interrupts. In any
> event, I have power management disabled and I have tried it with both
> APIC interrupts and without. I'm still failry skeptical about it being a
> hardware problem because I can:
>
> 1) load commercial OSS drivers -> works
> 2) unload commercial drivers
> 3) load ALSA drivers -> does not work, strange error messages
> 4) Reload commercial OSS driver -> works
>
> So, without rebooting (so no change in interrupt allocation, io
> base whatever else) one set of drivers works and the other does not. BTW
> OSS/Free drivers also do not work. What I don't know is how to go about
> troubleshooting why the ALSA driver seems to not work?
It seems that it's time to write some debugging tool which dumps registers
of running card using iopl().
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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