On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:51:49 +0100 Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi > > I have a Vaio PCG-U1 on which I recently installed Debian Etch with 2.6.18 > kernel. I want to use the jogdial for scrolling, but it wont work when I have > the PCMCIA wifi card in the slot. Its a madwifi driven PCGA-C300s and its a > 32 bit card. If I use a 16bit card, all is fine. > > THe symphtom is that when I have the card in the slot, sonypi will spill > unknown events for everything I try, jogdial, special keys, etc. The events > are always the same: > > sonypi: unknown event port1=0xff,port2=0xff > > The thing suspicious for me is that the resources get mixed up, or taken > away. As I have a very limited Linux knowledge, I wouldnt trust myself, and > specially dont know what to do now. What I see in the kernel log is this. > > sonypi: Sony Programmable I/O Controller Driver v1.26. > sonypi: detected type2 model, verbose = 0, fnkeyinit = off, camera = off, > compat = off, mask = 0xffffffff, use > input = on, acpi = on > sonypi: enabled at irq=11, port1=0x1080, port2=0x1084 > sonypi: device allocated minor is 63 > input: Sony Vaio Jogdial as /class/input/input0 > input: Sony Vaio Keys as /class/input/input1 > > and > > cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 > 0x388-0x38f > cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: clean. > cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean. > cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean. > cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean. > > It seems that sonypi's ports are not excluded, but again, this is just what I > see, and I am not sure about its being right. Actually now I know exactly what the problem is. The problem only occures when I insert a 32 bit Cardbus card. With regular 16bit PCMCIA cards its fine. So, the above mentioned issue isnt an issue anymore, as 32bit cards are handled by hotplug. This is what I see in /proc/ioports (only the necessary parts) 1000-10ff : PCI CardBus #01 1080-109f : Sony Programable I/O Device This obviously shows that Sonypi is under the PCI CardBus's range, hence when I have a card inserted, sonypi is overruled. My WiFi card is a 32bit card, and I wouldnt like giving up on that. There was some discussion going about a similar (same??) problem, but for an earlier kernel. There was even a patch, but again, for an earlier kernel. If anyone has an idea, please share. Thanks Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
