[Asterisk-Users] X100p on VIA EPIA-V problems

Andy akgmartinns at austin.rr.com
Sun Sep 19 05:29:16 MST 2004


Hi All,

I hope I'm posting this to the appriopriate list, and that cross posting
to two lists is OK. (If not, I'm sure I'll hear about it quickly :))

I'm running Asterisk on my (new) VIA EPIA-V motherboard.
This seems to be the ideal platform for a home version of asterisk - its
small, quiet, low power, and should have plenty of computing horsepower
if only it would work!

I'm running Redhat 9, Kernel 2.4.20-8, and Asterisk from
CVS-HEAD-07/07/04-21:01:10
The phones in my house talk to asterisk via  a Sipura SPA-2000.
I have a X100p card (not from Digium, I regret, but one of the "OEM"
cards sold by Diginetworks).  Here' is a snipit from the boot log:

> Sep 14 06:32:18 anchor kernel: Zapata Telephony Interface Registered on major 196
> Sep 14 06:32:18 anchor zaptel: Loading zaptel framework:  succeeded
> Sep 14 06:32:19 anchor kernel: wcfxo: DAA mode is 'FCC'
> Sep 14 06:32:19 anchor kernel: Found a Wildcard FXO: Wildcard X101P
> Sep 14 06:32:20 anchor kernel: usb.c: registered new driver wcusb
> Sep 14 06:32:20 anchor kernel: Wildcard USB FXS Interface driver registered
> Sep 14 06:32:21 anchor kernel: Registered tone zone 0 (United States / North America)
> Sep 14 06:32:21 anchor zaptel: Running ztcfg:  succeeded

Everything works perfectly, except for the following problem:
Sporadically -- about once in 6 hrs, Asterisk reports a "Red Alarm" from
the X100p.  Thereafter, the X100p no longer works -- no outgoing calls
can be placed; no incoming calls answered.
The problem can be cleared in one of two ways - the phone line can be
unplugged and plugged back in again, or asterisk can be shut down, the
zaptel module uloaded from the kernel, and then reloaded.

Here is another snipit from the log:
> Sep 13 05:40:50 NOTICE[16384]: registered database handle 'mysql1' dsn->[MySQL-asterisk]
> Sep 13 05:40:50 NOTICE[16384]: registered database handle 'mysql2' dsn->[MySQL-asterisk]
> Sep 13 05:40:50 NOTICE[16384]: res_odbc loaded.
> Sep 13 05:40:50 NOTICE[16384]: Registered Config Engine odbc
> Sep 13 05:40:50 NOTICE[16384]: res_config_odbc loaded.
> Sep 13 05:40:53 WARNING[16384]: Unable to get our IP address, Skinny disabled
> Sep 13 05:40:53 WARNING[16384]: Unable to open /dev/dsp: No such device
> Sep 13 07:48:14 NOTICE[98311]: Registration from '<sip:022 at 192.168.1.92>' failed for '192.168.1.93'
> Sep 13 08:30:29 NOTICE[98311]: Registration from '<sip:021 at 192.168.1.92>' failed for '192.168.1.93'
> Sep 13 08:30:29 NOTICE[98311]: Registration from '<sip:021 at 192.168.1.92>' failed for '192.168.1.93'
> Sep 13 08:33:11 NOTICE[262160]: Unable to create channel of type 'SIP'
> Sep 13 08:33:11 NOTICE[262160]: Unable to create channel of type 'SIP'
> Sep 13 08:36:39 WARNING[180236]: Detected alarm on channel 1: Red AlarmSep 13 05:40:50 NOTICE[16384]: registered database handle 'mysql1' dsn->[MySQL-asterisk]


Also, from time to time something goes wrong (maybe one call in 5) while
a call is in progress, and instead of hearing the person's voice, one
hears garbage sounds -- odd tones and pops.

The X100p worked reliably for several weeks on my old dual processor
400Mhz pentium box running the same Redhat kernel and Asterisk source.

The Via box is otherwise completely stable.  I've tried just about every
conievable BIOS setting on the Via box,  I've recompiled asterisk,
zaptel and the kernel specifying i386 as the archetecture. I've run
memtest86 in the hope of finding a memory problem.
I've tried a 2.6 kernel (2.6.6 with special "via" patches) with exactly 
the same results.

Has anyone else out there got this configuration to work?

My choices now seem to be
    1) Buy a new X100p (from Digium this time!)
    2) Buy a new motherboard - (I'd like to keep the low-power, low noise
and mini-itx form factor)
    3) Give up on the X100p and get a Sipura SPA-3000 for an FXO port -
I'd loose the timer, so music-on-hold might not work so well

Anyone have any other suggestions?  Other things I might try?
Ways I could go about debugging this?

Here is what lspci says about the installed pci devices:

> lspci -vvv
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05)
> 	Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device aa03
> 	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> 	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR+
> 	Latency: 8
> 	Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
> 	Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
> 		Status: RQ=7 SBA+ 64bit- FW- Rate=x1,x2,x4
> 		Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>
> 
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
> 	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> 	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR+
> 	Latency: 0
> 	Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
> 	I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-00000fff
> 	Memory behind bridge: e4000000-e6ffffff
> 	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fff00000-000fffff
> 	BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
> 	Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
> 		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> 		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231 [PCI-to-ISA Bridge] (rev 10)
> 	Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device aa03
> 	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
> 	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> 	Latency: 0
> 	Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
> 		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> 		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
> 	Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device aa03
> 	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> 	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> 	Latency: 32
> 	Region 4: I/O ports at d000 [size=16]
> 	Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
> 		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> 		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1e) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
> 	Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device aa03
> 	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> 	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> 	Latency: 32, cache line size 08
> 	Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 3
> 	Region 4: I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
> 	Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
> 		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> 		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1e) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
> 	Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
> 	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> 	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> 	Latency: 32, cache line size 08
> 	Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 3
> 	Region 4: I/O ports at d800 [size=32]
> 	Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
> 		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> 		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:11.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ACPI (rev 10)
> 	Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ACPI
> 	Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> 	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> 	Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2
> 		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> 		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40)
> 	Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device aa03
> 	Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> 	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> 	Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 10
> 	Region 0: I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
> 	Region 1: I/O ports at e000 [size=4]
> 	Region 2: I/O ports at e400 [size=4]
> 	Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
> 		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> 		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 51)
> 	Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine II] Embeded Ethernet Controller on VT8235
> 	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> 	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> 	Latency: 32 (750ns min, 2000ns max), cache line size 08
> 	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
> 	Region 0: I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
> 	Region 1: Memory at e7000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
> 	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
> 		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
> 		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:14.0 Communication controller: Tiger Jet Network Inc. Intel 537
> 	Subsystem: Unknown device 8085:0003
> 	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> 	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> 	Latency: 32 (250ns min, 32000ns max)
> 	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
> 	Region 0: I/O ports at ec00 [size=256]
> 	Region 1: Memory at e7001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> 	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
> 		Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
> 		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev 6a) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> 	Subsystem: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1
> 	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> 	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> 	Latency: 32
> 	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
> 	Region 0: Memory at e5800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
> 	Region 1: Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
> 	Region 2: Memory at e5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
> 	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
> 	Capabilities: [80] AGP version 2.0
> 		Status: RQ=32 SBA+ 64bit- FW- Rate=x1,x2,x4
> 		Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>
> 	Capabilities: [90] Power Management version 1
> 		Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> 		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

Here's the contents of /proc/interrupts
> cat /proc/interrupts 
>            CPU0       
>   0:   69499742          XT-PIC  timer
>   1:      16980          XT-PIC  i8042
>   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>   3:          0          XT-PIC  uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd
>   5:   67957058          XT-PIC  wcfxo
>   8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
>  10:    1044947          XT-PIC  via82cxxx
>  11:     562610          XT-PIC  eth0
>  12:     161145          XT-PIC  i8042
>  14:     190384          XT-PIC  ide0
> NMI:          0 
> ERR:         87



Thanks,
Andy







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