From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262751AbVGKVT1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:19:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262742AbVGKVRH (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:17:07 -0400 Received: from cpe-24-93-204-161.neo.res.rr.com ([24.93.204.161]:22404 "EHLO neo.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262693AbVGKVP4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:15:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:08:34 -0400 From: Adam Belay To: James Courtier-Dutton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug in pcmcia-core Message-ID: <20050711210834.GA4898@neo.rr.com> Mail-Followup-To: Adam Belay , James Courtier-Dutton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <42B1FF2A.2080608@superbug.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42B1FF2A.2080608@superbug.demon.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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