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From: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
To: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug in pcmcia-core
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:08:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050711210834.GA4898@neo.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42B1FF2A.2080608@superbug.demon.co.uk>

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:37:30PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have tried conacting the mailing list for the PCMCIA subsystem in
> Linux, but no-one seems to respond.
> 
> PCMCIA SUBSYSTEM
> L:      http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia
> S:      Unmaintained
> 
> I am trying to write a Linux ALSA driver for the Creative Audigy 2 NX
> Notebook PCMCIA card.
> This is a cardbus card, that uses ioports.
> When it is inserted into the laptop, the entry appears in "lspci -vv "
> showing ioports used by the card.
> As soon as my driver uses "outb()" to anything in the address range
> shown in "lspci -vv" , the PC hangs.
> 
> I can only conclude from this that ioport resources are not being
> allocated correctly to the PCMCIA card.

It's possible.

> 
> Can anybody help me track this down. If someone could tell me which
> PCMCIA and PCI registers should be set for it to work, I could then find
> out which pcmcia registers have not been set correctly, and fix the bug.
> 
> It seems that the PCMCIA specification is not open and free, so I cannot
> refer to it in order to fix this myself.
> 
> Can anybody help me?
> 
> James

Please provide more information.  /proc/ioports, lspci -vv, the ranges
assigned to your driver, and your driver code if it's available.  I'll try
to look into the problem.

Thanks,
Adam

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-11 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-16 22:37 Bug in pcmcia-core James Courtier-Dutton
2005-06-17  1:48 ` Wakko Warner
2005-06-17  7:35   ` James Courtier-Dutton
2005-06-21 15:43     ` Lee Revell
2005-06-21 16:53       ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-06-21 17:44         ` Lee Revell
2005-06-21 18:03           ` James Courtier-Dutton
2005-07-11 21:00             ` Lee Revell
2005-07-11 21:08 ` Adam Belay [this message]
2005-08-13 22:31   ` James Courtier-Dutton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-16 14:55 James Courtier-Dutton

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