Bug 35111 - rc.sysinit & isapnp problem
Summary: rc.sysinit & isapnp problem
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-04-07 08:29 UTC by Gerald Teschl
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:20 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2005-09-29 19:03:38 UTC
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
/proc/isapnp after boot (2.23 KB, text/plain)
2001-05-04 08:06 UTC, Gerald Teschl
no flags Details
/proc/isapnp after calling userland isapnp (2.31 KB, text/plain)
2001-05-04 08:06 UTC, Gerald Teschl
no flags Details

Description Gerald Teschl 2001-04-07 08:29:46 UTC
The test

if [ -x /sbin/isapnp -a -f /etc/isapnp.conf -a ! -f /proc/isapnp ]

in rc.sysinit is problematic. I have a opl3sa2 sound card and the file
/proc/isapnp exisits on my system. However, the opl3sa2 will only
work if isapnp is called an the irq/io stuff is passed to the driver.

Hence, rc.sysinit will fails to set up sound for me even tough it is
configured correctly. Plese remove the "-a ! -f /proc/isapnp" part.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-04-08 01:47:06 UTC
No.

Userland and kernel isapnp are incompatible.

Comment 2 Gerald Teschl 2001-04-17 14:04:21 UTC
I'm no kernel expert, but this is my point of view:
If I let the kernel/module do the isapnp stuff I get "No pnp cards found" (even
tough
it shows up in/proc/isapnp). If I use userland isapnp it works!!! And this is
all that matters to me!

So please either fix the kernel/module or fix rc.sysinit. Thanks.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2001-04-17 14:55:20 UTC
what is in /proc/isapnp for you?


Comment 4 Nils Barth 2001-05-04 07:26:14 UTC
I have the same problem.
I have a Soundblaster AWE32 PnP soundcard.
As far as I can tell, the problem is that the kernel detects the PnP card,
but doesn't activate it.
Thus, the module (in my case sb.o) cannot detect it, and thus fails.

What I think gt means when he says that it's detected in /proc/isapnp is that
the card is detected in there, but is listed as not active (i.e., no IO/IRQ/DMA
assigned).

I'll upload attachments showing /proc/isapnp in both cases.

Comment 5 Gerald Teschl 2001-05-04 08:04:43 UTC
Aha, now I understand, the kernel is supposed to activate the card. Well, here
is the information:
(1) Right after booting /proc/isapnp reads:
-------------------------------------------------------
Card 1 'YMH0800:YAMAHA OPL3-SAx Audio System' PnP version 1.0
  Logical device 0 'YMH0021:Unknown'
    Device is not active
    Active DMA 0,0
    Resources 0
<snip>
-------------------------------------------------------
Trying to insert the module with both options isapnp=0|1 will fail.
(2) Calling userland isapnp it reads
-------------------------------------------------------
Card 1 'YMH0800:YAMAHA OPL3-SAx Audio System' PnP version 1.0
  Logical device 0 'YMH0021:Unknown'
    Device is active
    Active port 0x220,0x530,0x388,0x330,0x370
    Active IRQ 5 [0x2]
    Active DMA 0,1
    Resources 0
<snip>
------------------------------------------------------
and now I can insert the module with "isapnp=1" or "isapnp=0 irq=....."

I'll attach both as isapnp1.txt and isapnp2.txt to this bug.


Comment 6 Gerald Teschl 2001-05-04 08:06:04 UTC
Created attachment 17306 [details]
/proc/isapnp after boot

Comment 7 Gerald Teschl 2001-05-04 08:06:49 UTC
Created attachment 17307 [details]
/proc/isapnp after calling userland isapnp

Comment 8 Aleksey Nogin 2001-05-16 02:02:42 UTC
See bug #40551 for another example of a situation where isapnp is needed. In my
case, the sounc card is initialized fine with RH scripts, but I still need
userland isapnp to activate my ISA-to-PCMCIA bridge.

Comment 9 Gerald Teschl 2002-02-17 16:22:35 UTC
This problem is still present in 7.2. The opl3sa2 modul will not
activate my sound card and I have to use

----------------------
echo "card 0 YMH0800
dev 0 YMH0021
port 0 0x220
port 1 0x530
port 2 0x388
port 3 0x330
port 4 0x370
irq 0 5
dma 0 0
dma 1 1
activate
dev 0 YMH0022
port 0 0x201
activate" > /proc/isapnp
------------------------------
in order to activate the card before the opl3sa2 module gets loaded.
Currently there seems no way to do this without editing rc.sysinit.



Comment 10 Gerald Teschl 2002-05-25 13:37:47 UTC
Could you please provide a hook in rc.sysinit such that one can activate
cards via

echo "..." > /proc/isapnp



Comment 11 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-29 19:03:38 UTC
This is all handled in a much more sane manner in current releases via udev and
ID matching. Hence, closing.


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