At Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:03:19 +0200,
Theo Veenker wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:00:10 +0200,
> > Theo Veenker wrote:
> > 
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I'n trying to setup a vxpocket pcmcia card on a Toshiba SP2100 laptop. I
> >>can't get it to work. I'm running a custom kernel 2.4.20 with pcmcia-cs
> >>support. ALSA driver 0.9.7a, lib, tools, utils 0.9.7.
> >>
> >>See my other settings below. I hope someone can give me a hand with this.
> >>I'm clueless. The cardmgr is running but gives a high/low beep sequence
> >>which I believe means it found the card, but was unable to configure it.
> >>It looks like an IRQ problem. Any ideas how to solve this?
> > 
> > 
> > yes, most likely.
> > i think this is a problem of pcmcia configuration.
> > 
> > as a workaround, you can specify the irq number via irq_list module
> > option of snd-vxpocket.  this gives the available irq numbers for the
> > card.
> > note that you have to set 4 numbers here, such as
> > 
> >     irq_list=5,7,9,11
> > 
> > (the same numbers can be used mulitple times, though)
> > check /proc/interrupts and give the available interrupt explicitly to
> > the option.
> 
> I've tried that. I didn't know I had to specify 4 numbers though, but
> alas no luck either (tried 3,4,5,6  7,9,10,11  3,3,3,3  4,4,4,4 etc).
> In no case the card appears under /proc/asound. And vxloader tells me
> no VX-compatible cards found.
 
hmm, are the interrupts free to use?
check /etc/pcmcia/config.opts.

> The strange thing is snd-vxpocket never complains about any irq setting.
> Only when I let cardmgr do the work I get "kernel: snd-vxpocket: RequestIRQ:
> Resource in use" in /var/log/messages.

since the registration of snd-vxpocket is invoked by cardmgr.
loading snd-vxpocket alone doesn't do anything.

> I read somewhere I need ISA support in my kernel. Is that true? I'm about
> to try if that helps. Are there any other crucial kernel options? I don't
> have APM or ACPI compiled in.

about ISA support, i'm not sure.
APM or ACPI should have nothing to do with this problem.


Takashi


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