[9fans] SB16

[9fans] SB16

[Carlos Eduardo Lenz]

My laptop allows to enable SB16 compatibility for the VIA soundcard in
the bios.
I enabled it in plan9.ini, with the dma,irq, etc set in the bios.
But it gives the error msg:
#A: model 0x03 0x02: not SB16 compatible (or something similar).

Found that devsound.c tests for major=0x03 and minor=0x01.
So I need to know if I can just add another test that fits my config or
my card isn't really supported?

thanks,

Carlos E Lenz
lenz@inf.ufsc.br

Re: [9fans] sb16

[gas]

Thanks Russ, great!

My random fiddling led me to rip out the other isa card, an elnk3
just sitting there. That didn't help at first, all I got  from your
program
was #ff. Anyway, after booting into windows, deleting the ethernet
driver and rebooting, the program printed #02. Windows must have
done some reshuffling magic, I suppose.

Now it works with 0x220.

/ Greger

--- Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> skrev:


> If the driver says the card isn't responding, making it
> continue on blindly isn't likely to change the situation.
> Luckily, the card you have should work, as long as it 
> is what Win98 says it is.
> 
> ...


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Re: [9fans] sb16

[Russ Cox]

> So, I added the line
>         audio0=type=sb16 port=0x220 irq=5 dma=1
> to plan9.ini and 'bind #A' to termrc, but I got the error

If the driver says the card isn't responding, making it
continue on blindly isn't likely to change the situation.
Luckily, the card you have should work, as long as it 
is what Win98 says it is.

On the sb16 plug-and-play, the important field is port=.
The irq= and dma= actually get programmed into the
card (or read from it, if you don't specify them), but
the driver needs a correct port= to find the card in the
first place.

Below is a very old throwaway program I wrote called tsb.c.
I haven't used it in 7+ years, but it looks like it should
still work.  It probes a given port to see if it finds a sb16 there.
If it prints sensible numbers, then it did.

	8c tsb.c
	8l tsb.8
	for(i in 0x220 0x240 0x260 0x280)
		echo -n 'port='$i && 8.out $i >[2]/dev/null

For example, here's a run on a machine without a sb16.

	% for(i in 0x220 0x240 0x260 0x280)
		echo -n 'port='$i && 8.out >[2]/dev/null
	port=0x220 irq:#ff:10 dma:#ff:0 1 3 5 6 7 
	port=0x240 irq:#ff:10 dma:#ff:0 1 3 5 6 7 
	port=0x260 irq:#ff:10 dma:#ff:0 1 3 5 6 7 
	port=0x280 irq:#ff:10 dma:#ff:0 1 3 5 6 7 
	% 

On a machine with a sb16, one of those lines should have hex
numbers other than #ff.  Use that port number.

If you run it without the >[2]/dev/null you'll get more 
debugging info than you could want to see.

Russ


--- tsb.c
#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>

int iobfd = -1;

uchar
inportb(long port)
{
	uchar data;
	if(iobfd == -1)
		iobfd = open("#P/iob", ORDWR);
	seek(iobfd, port, 0);
	if(read(iobfd, &data, sizeof(data)) != sizeof(data))
		fprint(2, "inportb(0x%4.4x): %r\n", port);
	return data;
}

void
outportb(long port, uchar b)
{
	if(iobfd == -1)
		iobfd = open("#P/iob", ORDWR);
	seek(iobfd, port, 0);
	if(write(iobfd, &b, sizeof(b)) != sizeof(b))
		fprint(2, "outportb(0x%4.4x, %#x): %r\n", port);
	
}
	
int mixaddr, mixdata, rstatus, bread, bwrite, wstatus, reset;

int sbread(void)
{	int i;
	int s;
	for(i=0;i<16;i++) {
		s=inportb(rstatus);
		fprint(2,"(rstat %#x)", s);
		if(s & 0x80) {
			return inportb(bread);
		}
	}
	return 0xbb;
}

int sbwrite(int d)
{
int i, s;
	for(i=0; i<16; i++) {
		s=inportb(rstatus);
		fprint(2,"(rstat %#x)", s);
		if((s & 0x80) == 0) {
			outportb(bwrite, d);
			return 0;
		}
	}
	return 1;
}
	
void
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	int i, j, irq, dma;
	int base;

	base = argc > 1 ? atoi(argv[1]) : 0x220;
fprint(2, "base 0x%x\n", base);
	mixaddr = base + 4;
	mixdata = base + 5;
	reset = base + 6;
	wstatus = base + 0xc;
	bread = base  + 0xa;
	bwrite = base + 0xc;
	rstatus = base + 0xe;
	
	fprint(2, "testing...\n");
	fprint(2, "reset...");
	outportb(reset, 1);
	sleep(1);
	outportb(reset, 0);
	sleep(2);
	fprint(2, "read...");
	fprint(2, "%#x...", inportb(bread));
	fprint(2, "%#x...", inportb(bread));
	fprint(2, "%#x...", inportb(bread));
	fprint(2, "%#x...", inportb(bread));

	fprint(2, "write e1...");
	fprint(2, "%d...", sbwrite(0xe1));

	fprint(2, "read...");
	fprint(2, "%#x...", sbread());
	fprint(2, "read...");
	fprint(2, "%#x...", sbread());

	fprint(2, "0x80: ");
	outportb(mixaddr, 0x80);
	fprint(2, "%#2.2x...", i=inportb(mixdata));
	irq = 0;
	print(" irq:#%2.2x", i);
	if(i & 1) irq = 2;
	if(i & 2) irq = 5;
	if(i & 4) irq = 7;
	if(i & 8) irq = 10;
	print(":%d ", irq);

	fprint(2, "0x81: ");
	outportb(mixaddr, 0x81);
	fprint(2, "%#2.2x...", i=inportb(mixdata));
	dma = 0;
	print("dma:#%2.2x:", i);
	for(j=0; j<8; j++) {
		if(i & (1 << j) && j != 2 && j != 4) {
			print("%d ", j);
			dma = j;
		}
	}

	fprint(2, "0x82: ");
	outportb(mixaddr, 0x82);
	fprint(2, "%#2.2x...", inportb(mixdata));

	fprint(2, "\n");
	print("\n");	
}

Re: [9fans] sb16

[Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan]

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hi,

if i remember correctly, there are multiple versions of SB16. Some work and
some dont. I have both types. The one that didnt work had another name
called Ensoniq I think (may be that company was bought by Creative).

anyway, my usual suggestion is completely ignore sound cards since they are
so confusing and it is difficult to get them up and running. instead, think
of buying an USB audio device. I have several devices working fine:
something like Edirol UA-1X, Xitel HiFi-Link AN1 and Xitel Pro HiFi-Link.
There are also other devices that are known to work.

here are some links that may be of use:
http://www.tip9ug.jp/who/ziphos/edirol.tests
http://www.infernopark.com/plan9/mad/mad.html

hope this helps.

regards
dharani

On 1/25/08, gas <smurfasmurf@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> OK, I tried ess1688 now but it's the same "#A: no response #ff".
>
> thanks,
> / greger
> --- Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> skrev:
>
> > In plan9.ini(8) there should be another type - try that instead. If
> > that doesn't work, I don't know.
> >
>
>
>
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Re: [9fans] sb16

[gas]

OK, I tried ess1688 now but it's the same "#A: no response #ff".

thanks,
/ greger
--- Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> skrev:

> In plan9.ini(8) there should be another type - try that instead. If  
> that doesn't work, I don't know.
> 



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Re: [9fans] sb16

[Pietro Gagliardi]

In plan9.ini(8) there should be another type - try that instead. If  
that doesn't work, I don't know.

On Jan 25, 2008, at 7:01 PM, gas wrote:

> I have an old ISA sound card, identified by win98 as "creative sound
> blaster 16 plug and play".
> So, I added the line
>         audio0=type=sb16 port=0x220 irq=5 dma=1
> to plan9.ini and 'bind #A' to termrc, but I got the error
>         #A: no response #ff
> With the if-statement surrounding that print commented out of
> devaudio.c, the next try failed with
>         #A: model 0xff 0xff; not SB 16 compatible
> I commented out that too and got another pair of error messages:
>         i8259enable: irq 2 shared but not level
>         intrenable: couldn't enable irq 2, tbdf 0xFFFFFFFF for audio
>
> By then I had /dev/audio etc., but no sound. Any ideas?
>
> / greger
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[9fans] sb16

[gas]

I have an old ISA sound card, identified by win98 as "creative sound
blaster 16 plug and play".
So, I added the line
        audio0=type=sb16 port=0x220 irq=5 dma=1
to plan9.ini and 'bind #A' to termrc, but I got the error
        #A: no response #ff
With the if-statement surrounding that print commented out of
devaudio.c, the next try failed with
        #A: model 0xff 0xff; not SB 16 compatible
I commented out that too and got another pair of error messages:
        i8259enable: irq 2 shared but not level
        intrenable: couldn't enable irq 2, tbdf 0xFFFFFFFF for audio

By then I had /dev/audio etc., but no sound. Any ideas?

/ greger


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Re: [9fans] SB16

[Richard Miller]

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> There's an sbpro driver for 2nd Edition on Charles Forsyth's Plan 9 software
> page.  It may be a SMOP to port it to 3rd Edition.

Here's an update to the 3rd edition version of /sys/src/9/port/devaudio.c for
sbpro support.  It's been found to work on a real sbpro and at least two
impostors; it doesn't work on the Thinkpad T21.

I think my resampling of sound data in b8to16() and b16to8() isn't quite right.
Would somebody like to comment?

-- Richard


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#!/bin/rc
#
# command: /bin/boddle /sys/src/9/port/devaudio.c devaudio.c
# srcdir: /sys/src/9/port
# version: 1004714078
# date: Fri Nov 2 15:14:38 GMT 2001
#
myname=$0
doextract=no

fn usage{
  echo $myname: usage: $myname '[-X] [src-directory]' >[1=2]
  exit usage
}

fn sigint{
  rm -rf 1004714078
  exit interrupt
}

while(~ $1 -*){
  switch($1){
  case -X
          doextract=yes
  case -*
          usage
  }
  shift
}

switch($#*){
case 0
  srcdir=/sys/src/9/port
case 1
  srcdir=$1
case *
  usage
}

if(! ~ $doextract yes){
  echo This shell file contains a bundle of diffs representing changes
  echo to original source files in the Plan 9 distribution. It will run
  echo against the files in
  echo ' ' $srcdir
  echo '(unless overridden by the optional source directory argument)'
  echo and create a directory 1004714078 containing the updated files.
  echo It will NOT automatically update the original files.
  echo
  echo Invoke with argument -X to perform the actual extraction.
  exit 0
}

rm -rf 1004714078
mkdir 1004714078

target=1004714078/devaudio.c
echo -n '1004714078/devaudio.c: '
if(! test -f $srcdir/devaudio.c || ! test -r $srcdir/devaudio.c){
  echo $srcdir/devaudio.c unreadable
  exit unreadable
}
sum=`{sum < $srcdir/devaudio.c}
if(! ~ 010c638720395  $sum(1)^$sum(2)){
  echo $srcdir/devaudio.c is not the original distribution file
  exit original
}
cp $srcdir/devaudio.c 1004714078/devaudio.c
sed s/.// <<'//GO.SYSIN DD VADIM devaudio.c' | ed 1004714078/devaudio.c >/dev/null >[2=1]
-1203a
-}
-
-static void
-b8to16(uchar *a)
-{
-	uchar *p, *q;
-
-	p = a + Bufsize/2;
-	q = a + Bufsize - 2;
-	do {
-		q[1] = (*--p)^0x80;
-		q[0] = 0;
-	} while ((q -= 2) >= a);
-}
-
-static void
-b16to8(uchar *a)
-{
-	uchar *p, *ep, *q;
-
-	p = a + 1;
-	ep = a + Bufsize;
-	q = a - 1;
-	do
-		*++q = *p^0x80;
-	while ((p += 2) < ep);
-.
-1175c
-				if(audio.major == 3)
-					b16to8(b->virt);
-				else
-					swab(b->virt);
-.
-987c
-				if(audio.major == 3)
-					b8to16(b->virt);
-				else
-					swab(b->virt);
-.
-928c
-					if(audio.major == 3)
-						b16to8(b->virt);
-					else
-						swab(b->virt);
-.
-861c
-	if(audio.major != 4 && audio.major != 3)
-.
-833a
-	}
-
-.
-819a
-	if(audio.major == 4) {
-
-.
-793d
-788,789c
-		if(audio.major == 3) {
-			if(audio.minor == 1 && !ess1688(&sbconf))
-				audio.major = 4;
-			else
-				blaster.startdma = sbprostartdma;
-		} else {
-			print("#A: model 0x%.2x 0x%.2x; not SB 16/PRO compatible\n",
-.
-730c
-	if(cistrcmp(sbconf.type, "sbpro") == 0)
-		sbconf.dma = 1;
-	else if((cistrcmp(sbconf.type, "sb16") != 0) && (cistrcmp(sbconf.type, "ess1688") != 0))
-.
-410a
-static	void
-sbprostartdma(void)
-{
-	ulong count;
-	int speed;
-
-	ilock(&blaster);
-	dmaend(blaster.dma);
-	if(audio.amode == Aread) {
-		sbcmd(0xd3);			/* speaker off */
-		speed = audio.livol[Vspeed];
-	} else {
-		sbcmd(0xd1);			/* speaker on */
-		speed = audio.lovol[Vspeed];
-	}
-	speed *= 2;
-	sbcmd(0x40);
-	sbcmd((65536 - 256000000/speed) >> 8);
-
-	count = (Bufsize >> 1) - 1;
-	sbcmd(0x48);				/* block size */
-	sbcmd(count);
-	sbcmd(count>>8);
-	if(audio.amode == Aread) {
-		sbcmd(0xa8);			/* stereo */
-		sbcmd(0x98);			/* high speed input, autoinit */
-	} else {
-		mxcmd(0x0e, mxread(0x0e)|0x22);	/* stereo, no output filter */
-		sbcmd(0x90);			/* high speed output, autoinit */
-	}
-
-	audio.active = 1;
-	audio.tottime = todget(nil);
-	contindma();
-	iunlock(&blaster);
-}
-
-.
-369a
-	}
-.
-367a
-	if(audio.major == 3) {		/* sbpro */
-		outb(blaster.reset, 1);
-		microdelay(3);
-		outb(blaster.reset, 0);
-	} else {					/* sb16 */
-.
-361c
-	if(dmasetup(blaster.dma, b->virt, (audio.major == 3? Bufsize/2 : Bufsize), audio.amode == Aread) >= 0)
-.
-304a
-	break;
-
-	case 3:		/* sbpro */
-
-	mxcmd(0x22, 255);		/* left/right master */
-	mxcmds2(0x04, left[Vaudio], right[Vaudio]);
-	mxcmds2(0x26, left[Vsynth], right[Vsynth]);
-	mxcmds2(0x28, left[Vcd], right[Vcd]);
-	mxcmds2(0x2e, left[Vline], right[Vline]);
-	mxcmdss(0x0a, left[Vmic]);
-
-	source = 0;
-	if(audio.livol[Vcd])
-		source = 2;
-	else if(audio.livol[Vline])
-		source = 6;
-	mxcmd(0x0c, 0x20|source);	/* no input filter */
-	break;
-	}
-
-.
-255a
-	switch (audio.major) {
-	case 4:		/* sb16 */
-
-.
-229a
-mxcmds2(int s, int v, int w)
-{
-
-	if(v > 100)
-		v = 100;
-	if(v < 0)
-		v = 0;
-	if(w > 100)
-		w = 100;
-	if(w < 0)
-		w = 0;
-	mxcmd(s, (((v*15)/100)<<4) | ((w*15)/100));
-}
-
-static	void
-mxcmdss(int s, int v)
-{
-	if(v > 100)
-		v = 100;
-	if(v < 0)
-		v = 0;
-	mxcmd(s, (v*7)/100);
-}
-
-static	void
-.
-132a
-static	void	b16to8(uchar*);
-static	void	b8to16(uchar*);
-.
-79,80c
-	int	major;		/* SB major version number (sb16=4, sbpro=3) */
-	int	minor;		/* SB minor version number */
-.
-wq
//GO.SYSIN DD VADIM devaudio.c
sum=`{sum < 1004714078/devaudio.c}
if(~ 0d74360d22810  $sum(1)^$sum(2))
  echo
if not{
  echo 1004714078/devaudio.c checksum error creating updated file
  exit checksum
}

Re: [9fans] SB16

[Carlos Eduardo Lenz]

It says in the bios setup it can emulate a sb16 (compaq 1200series)! So
it's not true?

Anyway, what are the major&minor about? My guess was that they are values
set somewhere by a real sb16 (for detection).

Carlos E Lenz
lenz@inf.ufsc.br

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 plan9@sigint.cs.purdue.edu wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:57:14AM +0900, okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote:
> >> From: Carlos Eduardo Lenz <lenz@inf.ufsc.br>
> >>
> >> My laptop allows to enable SB16 compatibility for the VIA soundcard in
> >> the bios.
> >> I enabled it in plan9.ini, with the dma,irq, etc set in the bios.
> >> But it gives the error msg:
> >> #A: model 0x03 0x02: not SB16 compatible (or something similar).
> >>
> >> Found that devsound.c tests for major=0x03 and minor=0x01.
> >> So I need to know if I can just add another test that fits my config or
> >> my card isn't really supported?
> >
> > Is that really sb16 compatible, not 'sbpro'?
>
> It's probably sbpro; I've never seen a card that emulated an sb16.
>
> You can't just bung in different major/minor numbers; the sbpro is only
> 8-bit, so you have to scale down the 16-bit samples first.
>
> There's an sbpro driver for 2nd Edition on Charles Forsyth's Plan 9 software
> page.  It may be a SMOP to port it to 3rd Edition.
>
> http://www.caldo.demon.co.uk/plan9/soft/index.html
>

Re: [9fans] SB16

[plan9]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:57:14AM +0900, okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote:
>> From: Carlos Eduardo Lenz <lenz@inf.ufsc.br>
>>
>> My laptop allows to enable SB16 compatibility for the VIA soundcard in
>> the bios.
>> I enabled it in plan9.ini, with the dma,irq, etc set in the bios.
>> But it gives the error msg:
>> #A: model 0x03 0x02: not SB16 compatible (or something similar).
>>
>> Found that devsound.c tests for major=0x03 and minor=0x01.
>> So I need to know if I can just add another test that fits my config or
>> my card isn't really supported?
>
> Is that really sb16 compatible, not 'sbpro'?

It's probably sbpro; I've never seen a card that emulated an sb16.

You can't just bung in different major/minor numbers; the sbpro is only
8-bit, so you have to scale down the 16-bit samples first.

There's an sbpro driver for 2nd Edition on Charles Forsyth's Plan 9 software
page.  It may be a SMOP to port it to 3rd Edition.

http://www.caldo.demon.co.uk/plan9/soft/index.html

Re: [9fans] SB16

[okamoto]

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>My laptop allows to enable SB16 compatibility for the VIA soundcard in

Is that really sb16 compatible, not 'sbpro'?

Kenji


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From: Carlos Eduardo Lenz <lenz@inf.ufsc.br>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] SB16
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 01:42:14 -0200 (EDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10111010138100.6897-100000@juno>

My laptop allows to enable SB16 compatibility for the VIA soundcard in
the bios.
I enabled it in plan9.ini, with the dma,irq, etc set in the bios.
But it gives the error msg:
#A: model 0x03 0x02: not SB16 compatible (or something similar).

Found that devsound.c tests for major=0x03 and minor=0x01.
So I need to know if I can just add another test that fits my config or
my card isn't really supported?

thanks,

Carlos E Lenz
lenz@inf.ufsc.br