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ASUS Xonar DX sound card not detected at boot
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C. G.
2012-09-17 19:21:02 UTC
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I'm using PC-BSD 9.0 with FreeBSD 9.0 kernel x86 and at boot, I see a message "Unindentified sound card... please report @ PC-BSD support..." something like that.

So, I directly expose the problem to the FreeBSD hardware team because it's a FreeBSD lack of driver.

Here is the output of my "lspci -v" command concerning this sound card :


02:00.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX8112 x1 Lane PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev aa) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [60] Express PCI/PCI-X Bridge, MSI 00

03:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Virtuoso 100 (Xonar DX)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
I/O ports at d800
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2


In fact, I think that the "Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]" is already supported on FreeBSD, but this sound card has something special : it's not a native PCI-E sound card, but a native PCI one, so it uses the "PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX8112 x1 Lane PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev aa)" as a bridge to communicate with the motherboard. And THIS component isn't supported!
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John Baldwin
2012-09-18 18:08:23 UTC
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Post by C. G.
I'm using PC-BSD 9.0 with FreeBSD 9.0 kernel x86 and at boot, I see a
message "Unindentified sound card... please report @ PC-BSD support..."
something like that.
Post by C. G.
So, I directly expose the problem to the FreeBSD hardware team because it's
a FreeBSD lack of driver.
Post by C. G.
02:00.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX8112 x1 Lane PCI Express-to-PCI
Bridge (rev aa) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Post by C. G.
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [60] Express PCI/PCI-X Bridge, MSI 00
03:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Virtuoso 100 (Xonar DX)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
I/O ports at d800
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
In fact, I think that the "Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics
Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]" is already supported on FreeBSD, but this sound
card has something special : it's not a native PCI-E sound card, but a native
PCI one, so it uses the "PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX8112 x1 Lane PCI
Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev aa)" as a bridge to communicate with the
motherboard. And THIS component isn't supported!

No, that wouldn't matter. Bridges are fairly standard. It would be helpful
to get pciconf -l output so we could see the actual device and vendor ID
register values.
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John Baldwin
C. G.
2012-09-19 09:08:40 UTC
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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:33:32 -0400
Subject: Re: ASUS Xonar DX sound card not detected at boot
Post by C. G.
I'm using PC-BSD 9.0 with FreeBSD 9.0 kernel x86 and at boot, I see a
something like that.
Post by C. G.
So, I directly expose the problem to the FreeBSD hardware team because it's
a FreeBSD lack of driver.
Post by C. G.
02:00.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX8112 x1 Lane PCI Express-to-PCI
Bridge (rev aa) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Post by C. G.
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [60] Express PCI/PCI-X Bridge, MSI 00
03:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen
HD Audio]
Post by C. G.
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Virtuoso 100 (Xonar DX)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
I/O ports at d800
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
In fact, I think that the "Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics
Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]" is already supported on FreeBSD, but this sound
card has something special : it's not a native PCI-E sound card, but a native
PCI one, so it uses the "PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX8112 x1 Lane PCI
Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev aa)" as a bridge to communicate with the
motherboard. And THIS component isn't supported!
No, that wouldn't matter. Bridges are fairly standard. It would be helpful
to get pciconf -l output so we could see the actual device and vendor ID
register values.
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John Baldwin
Hi,
Here is the output of the "pciconf -l" as you requested :

[***@PC-BSD] ~# pciconf -l
***@pci0:0:0:0: class=0x060000 card=0x82b01043 chip=0x29c08086 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
***@pci0:0:1:0: class=0x060400 card=0x82b01043 chip=0x29c18086 rev=0x10 hdr=0x01
***@pci0:0:27:0: class=0x040300 card=0x82ea1043 chip=0x27d88086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
***@pci0:0:28:0: class=0x060400 card=0x81791043 chip=0x27d08086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x01
***@pci0:0:29:0: class=0x0c0300 card=0x81791043 chip=0x27c88086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
***@pci0:0:29:1: class=0x0c0300 card=0x81791043 chip=0x27c98086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
***@pci0:0:29:2: class=0x0c0300 card=0x81791043 chip=0x27ca8086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
***@pci0:0:29:3: class=0x0c0300 card=0x81791043 chip=0x27cb8086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
***@pci0:0:29:7: class=0x0c0320 card=0x81791043 chip=0x27cc8086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
***@pci0:0:30:0: class=0x060401 card=0x81791043 chip=0x244e8086 rev=0xe1 hdr=0x01
***@pci0:0:31:0: class=0x060100 card=0x81791043 chip=0x27b88086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
***@pci0:0:31:1: class=0x01018a card=0x81791043 chip=0x27df8086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
***@pci0:0:31:2: class=0x01018f card=0x81791043 chip=0x27c08086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
***@pci0:0:31:3: class=0x0c0500 card=0x81791043 chip=0x27da8086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
***@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x061410de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
***@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x811210b5 rev=0xaa hdr=0x01
***@pci0:3:4:0: class=0x040100 card=0x82751043 chip=0x878813f6 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
***@pci0:4:1:0: class=0x020000 card=0x43001186 chip=0x43001186 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
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John Baldwin
2012-09-28 12:49:29 UTC
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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:33:32 -0400
Subject: Re: ASUS Xonar DX sound card not detected at boot
Post by C. G.
I'm using PC-BSD 9.0 with FreeBSD 9.0 kernel x86 and at boot, I see a
something like that.
Post by C. G.
So, I directly expose the problem to the FreeBSD hardware team because it's
a FreeBSD lack of driver.
Post by C. G.
02:00.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX8112 x1 Lane PCI Express-to-PCI
Bridge (rev aa) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Post by C. G.
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [60] Express PCI/PCI-X Bridge, MSI 00
03:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen
HD Audio]
Post by C. G.
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Virtuoso 100 (Xonar DX)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
I/O ports at d800
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
In fact, I think that the "Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics
Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]" is already supported on FreeBSD, but this sound
card has something special : it's not a native PCI-E sound card, but a native
PCI one, so it uses the "PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX8112 x1 Lane PCI
Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev aa)" as a bridge to communicate with the
motherboard. And THIS component isn't supported!
No, that wouldn't matter. Bridges are fairly standard. It would be helpful
to get pciconf -l output so we could see the actual device and vendor ID
register values.
--
John Baldwin
Hi,
It looks like this is a CMI 8788 part (and not a generic HDA audio
controller). The closest fit would be the cmi driver, but it
doesn't appear to support CMI 8788 parts:

cmi.c:#define CMI8338A_PCI_ID 0x010013f6
cmi.c:#define CMI8338B_PCI_ID 0x010113f6
cmi.c:#define CMI8738_PCI_ID 0x011113f6
cmi.c:#define CMI8738B_PCI_ID 0x011213f6

Looking at Linux's sound drivers, our cmi(4) closely matches their cmipci
driver, and their CMI 8788 driver is an entirely separate driver:

http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-kernel.git;a=tree;f=sound/pci/oxygen;h=68b0aca62d21e91269c4e18d74724373fa785603;hb=HEAD
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John Baldwin
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