From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Feb 7 19:37:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5A7A37B401 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 19:37:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3422743F85 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 19:37:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h183beD16758; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 19:37:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20494; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 19:37:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.adaptec.com (hollin [10.100.253.56]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00903; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 20:37:27 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3E447B93.6060200@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 20:37:55 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021125 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mac Newbold Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ESS Technology Allegro-1 with 4.7-STABLE References: <20030207113311.W50931-100000@bas.flux.utah.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030207113311.W50931-100000@bas.flux.utah.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mac Newbold wrote: > My old Compaq box with an Allegro soundcard in the motherboard used to > work fine (after a lot of work) under 4.0-RELEASE. Now under 4.7-STABLE, > it doesn't work anymore, and won't play anything except system beeps. At > one point I was also running 4.4-STABLE (and 4.6-STABLE, too I think), > and it would occasionally give me "channel dead" messages, and would come > back alive after a reboot sometimes. > > /dev/sndstat says: > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) > Installed devices: > pcm0: at io 0x1400 irq 5 (4p/1r/0v channels duplex) > > I've been trying to play mp3's with mpg123, amp, etc., and have tried > cat'ing wav files and other data at /dev/dsp, /dev/audio, etc. to no > avail. > > Anyone have any pointers on what may be wrong or what I could do to get it > working again? > > About the only possiblity I have been able to think of is that the work I > did to get it going under 4.0-RELEASE may need to be partly or completely > undone, now that the driver is included in -STABLE. But I didn't want to > try anything without advice from Someone Who Knows. > > Thanks, > Mac I co-wrote the maestro3 driver, and I'm ashamed to say that it's started to rot. Unfortunately, I no longer having working hardware to support this anymore (the laptop it was in died about 9 months ago). If someone knows where I can get a PCI add-in-card version of either the Allegro-1 or Maestro-3 then I'd be happy to keep on supporting it. Until then, I apologize for not being able to do much with it. One thing you might try is reducing the number of playback channels to 1 via the M3_PCHANS macro in /sys/dev/sound/pci/maestro3.c. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message