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Fog_Watch
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 Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 4:39 am Post subject: Soundblaster X-Fi + Atheros wireless = hang. Why? [CLOSED] |
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My motherboard has the following two cards:
| Quote: | lspci -vvs 05:00.0 && lspci -vvs 05:02.0
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Cisco Aironet Wireless Communications Device cc21
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
Region 0: Memory at e4200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
Kernel driver in use: ath5k
05:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB X-Fi
Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 0029
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 32 (1000ns min, 1250ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
Region 0: I/O ports at 1000 [size=32]
Region 1: Memory at e4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
Region 3: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
Kernel driver in use: snd_ctxfi
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If I attempt to play sound through the X-Fi card the machine completely hangs. However, if I pull the wi-fi card the machine no-longer hangs when I play sound through the X-Fi.
The hang occurs whether or not the on-board sound is disabled in the bios.
Is there a way to configure this machine so that the wi-fi card and the X-Fi card can co-exist?
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Fog_Watch.
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| Quote: | uname -pio
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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PaulBredbury
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| Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 5:02 am Post subject: |
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You need to experiment, e.g. the kernel bootup option:
| Code: | | pci=pcie_bus_peer2peer |
There's many other pci= options.
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Fog_Watch
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| Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 6:56 am Post subject: |
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| PaulBredbury wrote: | You need to experiment, e.g. the kernel bootup option:
| Code: | | pci=pcie_bus_peer2peer |
There's many other pci= options. |
Indeed there is.
I'm fearful that this exercise is going to hurt my little head.
Parameters skip_isa_align, nobios and the more mysterious pcie_bus_peer2peer, chosen at random, do appear to change the length of time (seconds) it takes before a hang occurs. I'm still however without luck. I'll try again.
Thanks PaulBredbury. |
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Fog_Watch
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| Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 6:09 am Post subject: |
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| Knoppix can get this hardware to go. Given that I haven't had much luck with pci=, how do I work out what they did that is different from me (.config)? |
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Fog_Watch
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| Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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I have swapped out my horrible Cisco Aironet and put in a RT61 card:
| Quote: | lspci -vvs 05:00.0
05:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g
Subsystem: D-Link System Inc AirPlus G DWL-G510 Wireless Network Adapter (Rev.C)
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 32, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
Region 0: Memory at e4200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Kernel driver in use: rt61pci
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The machine no-longer hangs - so this is closed.
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| In attempting to solve this I tried a Creative EMU10K1 card. |
| Don't: it sounds horrible. Initial impressions of the X-Fi |
| card are that is reproduces quite nicely. |
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| The RT61 card was a little tricky to get going. In addition |
| to the kernel module some firmware is needed. |
| net-wireless/rt61-firmware is of no use here as the links |
| are stale. A work around is to go to mediatek.com, get the |
| Linux RT61 download and unpack the firmware *.bin(s) into |
| /lib/firmware. The card has a much better range than the |
| Aironet. |
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