PNP Crystal soundcard detection problem in 5.1Release

[Greg Lane]

Hi Roman,

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:20:53PM +0300, Roman Malytskyy <zorehid at ua.fm> wrote:
> I have the very same model! 5.1-RELEASE could problem be here?

I got a deal on a refurbished model with a 3 year international 
warranty from Dell when I was living in the U.S.  It has been a
workhorse for me for years now. 

I can't be sure now, but I'm fairly certain I had sound 
working when I installed 5.1-RELEASE. I then 
upgraded to current to support my 54g (Atheros) wireless card. 

> I've updated my FlashBIOS from A03 to version A12 (from DELL website),
> I've added to the end of config-file
> 
>  device pcm
>  device sbc

I don't have my laptop with me right now, but I'm fairly 
sure I am running the A12 bios also.

> Verbose booting keeps giving:
> ...
> unknown: <PNP0401> can't assign resources (port)
> unknown: <PNP0401> at port 0x378-0x37f on isa0
> unknown: <CSC0000> can't assign resources (irq)
> unknown: <CSC0000> at port 0x220-0x22f,0x388-0x38b,0x530-0x537 irq 5 on isa0
> unknown: <CSC0010> failed to probe at port 0x210-0x217 on isa0
> unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port)
> unknown: <PNP0700> at port 0x3f2-0x3f5 on isa0

I will do a verbose boot when I get home again (where my
laptop is) and check what mine says.

> I have ACPI disabled,

Mine is enabled (I just ignore the initial error messages).
I don't know whether this has any effect on the PNP devices. 

> In /boot/devices.hints:
> ...
> hint.pcm.0.at="isa"
> hint.pcm.0.irq="5"
> hint.pcm.0.drq="1"
> hint.pcm.0.flags="0x0"

I will need to check. Note however, that my detection message from
dmesg (see my first email) says:

sbc0: <SoundBlaster Pro> at port 0x220-0x22f irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15 on isa0

so you might want to change hint.pcm.0.flags. I don't know if 
you also need hints for the sbc device?

> The only additional hardware I have installed is PS/2 mouse and
> Surecom PCMCIA Ethernet adapter (model ep428x, which is detected as
> rl0)

I have at various times a mouse, external display, pcmcia modem, 
Trendnet ethernet card (also rl0). Nothing seems to affect the sound.

> p.s. maybe you will consider possible sharing you kernel configuration
> file and maybe BIOS settings, coz we have same model and its even more
> strange that its not working.

Certainly I can do that as well as check other the other things I noted
above as soon as I get to my laptop at home.

Cheers,
Greg