working the bugs out of a Sony GRX650 - interrupts and the sound card

[Stuart Quimby]

Thanks for the tip!  I'll try upgrading to CURRENT.

Stuart


On Monday 26 July 2004 09:07 am, Hrant Dadivanyan wrote:
> Hi Stuart,
>
> You also should have difficulties with memory stick, second PC card slot
> and sometimes USB, correct ?  AFAIK, Sony GRX and GR series have the same
> issue with interrupts delivery, when no interrupts are received by driver.
> vmstat -i should confirm it.
>
> I own GR300 and after two years fight found a workaround to get at least
> sound to work with STABLE - since video and sound share the same irq 9 as
> almost everything in this Sony design, if you configure kernel and X to
> use DRI (http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/), it will produce enough
> interrupts the sound to work well.
>
> Two weeks ago I have installed CURRENT and found that everything works
> pretty well in generic install. Also during these days CURRENT looks much
> stable with my laptop than STABLE. Thanks to all people working on FreeBSD
> !
>
> Hope it help you,
> Hrant
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm running  4.9-RELEASE on my lapper and have been trying for over a
> > year to get the sound card running properly.  I'm probably 'medium' level
> > in my OS skills, so there may be something basic that I'm missing.
> >
> > Dmesg reports the following on the card:
> > pcm0: <Intel ICH3 (82801CA)> port 0x18c0-0x18ff,0x1c00-0x1cff irq 9 at
> > device 31.5 on pci0
> > pcm0: <Yamaha YMF753 AC97 Codec>
> >
> > I have the same behavior I've heard others mention on this list: the
> > sound works fine as long as I wiggle the mouse - presumably this is
> > generating enough interrupts to keep the sound steady.
> >
> > I've tried both Intel ICH and the generic snd_driver and get identical
> > (bad) results.
> >
> > Anyone have this model and get it running properly?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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Stuart Quimby
Pres. Design Science Toys, Ltd.
172 Pleasant Vale Rd.
Tivoli, NY  12583
845.756.4221  (fax)4223
stuq at dstoys.com