kern/111767: [pcm] ATI SB450 High Definition Audio Controller sound card doesn't work

[Andy Kosela]

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From: "Andy Kosela" <andy.kosela at gmail.com>
To: cokane at freebsd.org
Cc: "Nate Lawson" <nate at root.org>, bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/111767: [pcm] ATI SB450 High Definition Audio Controller sound card doesn't work
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 21:28:46 +0100

 On Dec 7, 2007 12:28 AM, Coleman Kane <cokane at freebsd.org> wrote:
 > I think that I've isolated the problem:
 >
 > atapci0: <ATI IXP600 SATA300 controller> port
 > 0x9000-0x9007,0x9008-0x900b,0x9010-0x9017,0x5018-0x501b,0x5020-0x502f
 > mem 0xd0609000-0xd06093ff irq 16 at device 18.0 on pci0
 > ...
 > pcm0: <ATI SB600 High Definition Audio Controller> mem
 > 0xd0608000-0xd060bfff irq 16 at device 20.2 on pci0
 >
 > The ATI Audio controller seems to be attempting to lock down a range of
 > memory. The memory allocated for the SATA controller in the same
 > southbridge has already taken a chunk of that space for itself. This
 > might also explain some weirdness when the AHCI system is attempting to
 > interact with the MMIO space...
 >
 > Andy, can you check your dmesg and verify this is also true on your
 > machine? I looked at what you sent to me and it looks like this is the
 > case (though your mem ranges are in 0xd04xxxxx).
 >
 > What to do about this?
 
 plotinus:~> dmesg | grep 'pcm0\|atapci'
 atapci0: <\^B> port
 0x9000-0x9007,0x9008-0x900b,0x9010-0x9017,0x5018-0x501b,0x5020-0x502f
 mem 0xd0409000-0xd04093ff irq 16 at device 18.0 on pci0
 atapci0: [ITHREAD]
 ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
 ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
 atapci1: <ATI IXP600 UDMA133 controller> port
 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x5040-0x504f irq 16 at device
 20.1 on pci0
 ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
 pcm0: <ATI SB600 High Definition Audio Controller> mem
 0xd0408000-0xd040bfff irq 16 at device 20.2 on pci0
 pcm0: hdac_mem_alloc: Unable to allocate memory resource
 device_attach: pcm0 attach returned 6
 atapci0: <\^B> port
 0x9000-0x9007,0x9008-0x900b,0x9010-0x9017,0x5018-0x501b,0x5020-0x502f
 mem 0xd0409000-0xd04093ff irq 16 at device 18.0 on pci0
 atapci0: [ITHREAD]
 ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
 ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
 atapci1: <ATI IXP600 UDMA133 controller> port
 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x5040-0x504f irq 16 at device
 20.1 on pci0
 ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
 pcm0: <ATI SB600 High Definition Audio Controller> mem
 0xd0408000-0xd040bfff irq 16 at device 20.2 on pci0
 pcm0: hdac_mem_alloc: Unable to allocate memory resource
 device_attach: pcm0 attach returned 6
 
 I tried to play with /boot/device.hints but with no success. Is it
 possible to force memory allocation for pcm0?
 We could change the memory range and possibly get rid of the problem.
 
 Andy Kosela