FreeBSD CMI8738 Audio

[TheOmegaCode]

<< A driver for the CMedia CMI8338/CMI8738 sound chips has been added. >>

This quote comes straight from FreeBSD.org. However, it isn't detecting my CMI8738 Audio chip... I've ran dmesg |more and there is only one unknown device,

pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x13f6, dev=0x0111) at 14.0 irq 11

Now, I've been looking through FreeBSD mail archives, and this PNP ID comes up, but at 15.0 on irq 5. I know that IRQ 5 is basically sound, but this is, of course, not set in stone, and that IRQ 11 can be used for sound. However, I didn't think It was possible to share IRQ addresses between Video and Sound...

pci1: <NVidia GeForce2 GTS graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11

That is my video card. Now, it's been a while, and I never was really good with IRQ problems (never had to deal with them) but does this sound like an IRQ conflict? I mean, if FreeBSD supports a PNP device and has a driver for a PNP device, shouldn't it, well, Plug-and-Play?

 

[freebsddude]

Wonder if you can reassign IRQ for your video, or audio in your BIOS. If there are IRQ conflicts on PCI slots you basically move around your card in a different slot or assign IRQs to PCI. In your case, the IRQ is tied to an onboard audio chip and a video card in the AGP slot.

 

[TheOmegaCode]

Windows can handle both of these devices on the same IRQ port w/ different I/O addresses. You think a make world could help this any? I'm running FreeBSD 4.4 release.

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< Windows can handle both of these devices on the same IRQ port w/ different I/O addresses. You think a make world could help this any? I'm running FreeBSD 4.4 release. >>



I hope you have a firewall between you and the world and dont run any world accessible services.

When was the driver added? If it was recently you may have to upgrade to -current.

EDIT: I dont see that announcement you mentioned (I dont know my way around freebsd.org), so I did a couple of searches on the mailing lists. I saw something about CMedia in current@, and a couple of hits on other lists.

Did you recompile your kernel? If so, why havent you updated to atleast -stable yet?! I hope you did since usually the first step in getting hardware working (after physical installation) is to install drivers.

 

[TheOmegaCode]

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<< Windows can handle both of these devices on the same IRQ port w/ different I/O addresses. You think a make world could help this any? I'm running FreeBSD 4.4 release. >>



I hope you have a firewall between you and the world and dont run any world accessible services.

When was the driver added? If it was recently you may have to upgrade to -current.

EDIT: I dont see that announcement you mentioned (I dont know my way around freebsd.org), so I did a couple of searches on the mailing lists. I saw something about CMedia in current@, and a couple of hits on other lists.

Did you recompile your kernel? If so, why havent you updated to atleast -stable yet?! I hope you did since usually the first step in getting hardware working (after physical installation) is to install drivers. >>


I hacked my kernel, that fixed it, somewhat. I still have no sound in XMMS (which is REALLY pissing me off) but I have annoying gaim sounds :Q
Hey! I am stable! (except when galeon crashes) I just forgot to add a few lines to my kernel...

device pcm
options PNPBIOS

 

[AkumaBao]

I know as a fact FreeBSD 4.5 has the drivers already in the kernel, assuming that's what you are using. Just set it up via 'install setup', and then do a 'kldload snd'.

 

[freebsddude]

Agreed, I would recommend upgrading to 4.5!

 

[TheOmegaCode]

upgraded to 4.5 stable... and now my sound DOESNlT work...
I cant get cvsup to instal... keeps giving me error messages, and I'm going to shoot something....
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[freebsddude]

What error messages are you getting ?