On Monday, September 17, 2012 3:19:31 pm C. G. wrote: > > I'm using PC-BSD 9.0 with FreeBSD 9.0 kernel x86 and at boot, I see a message "Unindentified sound card... please report @ PC-BSD support..." something like that. > > So, I directly expose the problem to the FreeBSD hardware team because it's a FreeBSD lack of driver. > > Here is the output of my "lspci -v" command concerning this sound card : > > > 02:00.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX8112 x1 Lane PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev aa) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 > Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=64 > I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff > Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ > Capabilities: [60] Express PCI/PCI-X Bridge, MSI 00 > > 03:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] > Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Virtuoso 100 (Xonar DX) > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 > I/O ports at d800 > Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 > > > In fact, I think that the "Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]" is already supported on FreeBSD, but this sound card has something special : it's not a native PCI-E sound card, but a native PCI one, so it uses the "PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX8112 x1 Lane PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev aa)" as a bridge to communicate with the motherboard. And THIS component isn't supported!
No, that wouldn't matter. Bridges are fairly standard. It would be helpful to get pciconf -l output so we could see the actual device and vendor ID register values. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
