From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932380AbVHMWbn (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 18:31:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932386AbVHMWbn (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 18:31:43 -0400 Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.85]:61703 "EHLO anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932380AbVHMWbm (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 18:31:42 -0400 Message-ID: <42FE74CD.4040108@superbug.demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 23:31:41 +0100 From: James Courtier-Dutton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050804) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Belay CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug in pcmcia-core References: <42B1FF2A.2080608@superbug.demon.co.uk> <20050711210834.GA4898@neo.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20050711210834.GA4898@neo.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adam Belay wrote: > 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 > > Please see bug#5057. I have placed all the information there. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5057 James