[alsa-devel] Intel ICH Modem init fails for laptop built-in SiS modem

Richard Kennedy richard at rsk.demon.co.uk
Sun Feb 3 15:30:21 CET 2008


> > > Richard Kennedy wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > My JVC mininote laptop has an inbuilt SiS modem
> > > >  00:01.6 Modem [0703]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller [1039:7013] (rev a0)
> > ...
> > > > kernel: Intel ICH Modem: probe of 0000:00:01.6 failed with error -5
> > > > 
> > > > I never use the modem so I blacklisted the snd-intel8x0m module in
> > > > modprobe.conf just to make the messages go away.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm currently running the fedora 2.6.23 kernel but it has been broken
> > > > for a long time.
> > > > 
> > > > Is this fixable?
> > > > or shall I just go on ignoring it ;) ?
> > > 
> > > The latter unless you really need the support of it ;)
> > > We have no datasheet for this SIS chipset, so it's hard to fix,
> > > unfortuantely.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Takashi
> > 
> > Right, thanks.
> > 
> > In that case should we remove it from then supported devices list ?
> 
> Maybe.  But it might work on other machines with the same chipset.
> It can't be confirmed easily...
> 
> 
> Takashi
> 
OK. But spamming the log with 400+ messages just because it _might_ work
somewhere seems wrong to me, when we know it doesn't work on this
particular chip.

> kernel: codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x300]
> kernel:last message repeated 431 times

isn't there any way to blacklist this particular variant of the chip in
the driver ?
OTOH maybe just rate limiting the output from code_semaphore would be
good enough ?

Richard








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