Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-27 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:41:15PM -0700, TimO wrote: > 0x378: possible IRQ conflict! [Don't know why it always reports > this] I've been sending Linus a patch to remove this bogus warning for the last few pre-patches. > 0x378: ECP settings irq= dma= other means> [...] > With no options

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-27 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:41:15PM -0700, TimO wrote: 0x378: possible IRQ conflict! [Don't know why it always reports this] I've been sending Linus a patch to remove this bogus warning for the last few pre-patches. 0x378: ECP settings irq=none or set by other means dma=none or set by

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread TimO
Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:19:35AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Attempting to pretend that the parallel port is not in an interrupt > > driven mode by passing irq=none is folly. > > No, that's not what it's for. It means 'for Christ sake don't use > interrupts, I know

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:19:35AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Attempting to pretend that the parallel port is not in an interrupt > driven mode by passing irq=none is folly. No, that's not what it's for. It means 'for Christ sake don't use interrupts, I know what I'm doing'. > If irq=none is

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
Will Newton wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I am not sure that I agree, however, that an "irq=none" on the kernel > > cmd line should affect the operation of the Via code. I would much > > rather fix the Via code as I suggest above. > > irq=none seems pretty unequivocal to

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread Will Newton
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > What are your parallel port settings in BIOS? AFAICR there is only an option for setting the I/O port. I'll check for anything else later (the machine in question is busy right now :). > Do you have Plug-n-Play OS enabled in BIOS? Yes. > I am not

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:21:10PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > The current Via-specific parport_pc.c code forces on the best possible > parallel port modes the chip can handle. In retrospect, what it should > be doing is reading the configuration BIOS has set up, and not touching > it. Yes, I

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:21:10PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: The current Via-specific parport_pc.c code forces on the best possible parallel port modes the chip can handle. In retrospect, what it should be doing is reading the configuration BIOS has set up, and not touching it. Yes, I

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread Will Newton
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: What are your parallel port settings in BIOS? AFAICR there is only an option for setting the I/O port. I'll check for anything else later (the machine in question is busy right now :). Do you have Plug-n-Play OS enabled in BIOS? Yes. I am not sure

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
Will Newton wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: I am not sure that I agree, however, that an "irq=none" on the kernel cmd line should affect the operation of the Via code. I would much rather fix the Via code as I suggest above. irq=none seems pretty unequivocal to me, I'm

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:19:35AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Attempting to pretend that the parallel port is not in an interrupt driven mode by passing irq=none is folly. No, that's not what it's for. It means 'for Christ sake don't use interrupts, I know what I'm doing'. If irq=none is

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread TimO
Tim Waugh wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:19:35AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Attempting to pretend that the parallel port is not in an interrupt driven mode by passing irq=none is folly. No, that's not what it's for. It means 'for Christ sake don't use interrupts, I know what I'm

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:16:26AM +, Will Newton wrote: > > > In /etc/modules.conf I have: > > > > options parport_pc irq=none > > > > but dmesg says: > > > > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 > > [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA] > > Jeff, this is a bug

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tim Waugh wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:16:26AM +, Will Newton wrote: In /etc/modules.conf I have: options parport_pc irq=none but dmesg says: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA] Jeff, this is a bug with the Via code in

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-18 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:16:26AM +, Will Newton wrote: > In /etc/modules.conf I have: > > options parport_pc irq=none > > but dmesg says: > > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 > [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA] Jeff, this is a bug with the Via code in parport_pc.c.

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-18 Thread Will Newton
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > No device I'm using has irq troubles.. at least nothing obvious. I've > no idea if the spurious irq is VIA chipset related or not.. only that > it's a fairly recent arrival. All devices work fine here. In /etc/modules.conf I have: options

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-18 Thread Will Newton
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: No device I'm using has irq troubles.. at least nothing obvious. I've no idea if the spurious irq is VIA chipset related or not.. only that it's a fairly recent arrival. All devices work fine here. In /etc/modules.conf I have: options parport_pc

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-18 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:16:26AM +, Will Newton wrote: In /etc/modules.conf I have: options parport_pc irq=none but dmesg says: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA] Jeff, this is a bug with the Via code in parport_pc.c. Basically,

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-17 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Will Newton wrote: > On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > messages.1:Mar 8 22:49:00 dogfox kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. > > > > I see these once in a while too in 2.4.x, and only when copying largish > > files between boxes. NIC is IRQ-10, but the

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-17 Thread Will Newton
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > messages.1:Mar 8 22:49:00 dogfox kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. > > I see these once in a while too in 2.4.x, and only when copying largish > files between boxes. NIC is IRQ-10, but the spurious interrupt is always > IRQ-7. I'm not using

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-17 Thread Will Newton
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: messages.1:Mar 8 22:49:00 dogfox kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. I see these once in a while too in 2.4.x, and only when copying largish files between boxes. NIC is IRQ-10, but the spurious interrupt is always IRQ-7. I'm not using the

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-17 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Will Newton wrote: On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: messages.1:Mar 8 22:49:00 dogfox kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. I see these once in a while too in 2.4.x, and only when copying largish files between boxes. NIC is IRQ-10, but the spurious

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-16 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Will Newton wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Tim Waugh wrote: > > > > I don't know why it prints it twice. > > > > Looks like the module is getting loaded, then unloaded, then loaded > > again. Perhaps because of module autocleaning? > > Could be, but the final lp0 line is

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-16 Thread Will Newton
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Tim Waugh wrote: > > I don't know why it prints it twice. > > Looks like the module is getting loaded, then unloaded, then loaded > again. Perhaps because of module autocleaning? Could be, but the final lp0 line is only printed once: lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-16 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 06:45:37PM +, Will Newton wrote: > I don't know why it prints it twice. Looks like the module is getting loaded, then unloaded, then loaded again. Perhaps because of module autocleaning? > When printing errors are printed (buffer overrun or something like that, >

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-16 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 06:45:37PM +, Will Newton wrote: I don't know why it prints it twice. Looks like the module is getting loaded, then unloaded, then loaded again. Perhaps because of module autocleaning? When printing errors are printed (buffer overrun or something like that, it

Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-16 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Will Newton wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Tim Waugh wrote: I don't know why it prints it twice. Looks like the module is getting loaded, then unloaded, then loaded again. Perhaps because of module autocleaning? Could be, but the final lp0 line is only printed

VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-15 Thread Will Newton
I have a Asus K7V motherboard and a SB 128 PCI soundcard. The motherboard is vt82c686a based. The SB is a ES1371/AC97 card, seemingly identical to the onboard sound on this type of motherboard. However, the sound rarely works, and there are problems with the parport too. Sound does not work

VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-15 Thread Will Newton
I have a Asus K7V motherboard and a SB 128 PCI soundcard. The motherboard is vt82c686a based. The SB is a ES1371/AC97 card, seemingly identical to the onboard sound on this type of motherboard. However, the sound rarely works, and there are problems with the parport too. Sound does not work