Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:23:47 +0800 From: Muzaffar Ariff <mus.bsd@gmail.com> To: yongari@rndsoft.co.kr Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ESS Maestro3 no sound Message-ID: <8eb2b8105062822237f1e71bd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050629043027.GB8832@rndsoft.co.kr> References: <8eb2b81050628200659d338ab@mail.gmail.com> <20050629043027.GB8832@rndsoft.co.kr>
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Thanks for the quick reply and here what I've found out > Btw, does the issue vanish away when you cold start your system? No it doesn't go away. My system doesn't hang its just there's no sound.=20 > You may get better chance if the driver is linked into kernel. So basically I have to build myself a customize kernel? Never done that but i'll give it a shot. -m- On 6/29/05, Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@rndsoft.co.kr> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:06:09AM +0800, Muzaffar Ariff wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been trying to configure my maestro3 on a dell latitude (C600) > > but can't seem to get it right. Here's what I've done: > > > > 1. Identified my sound card by loading the sound driver module: > > #kldload snd_driver > > > > 2. Cat /dev/sndstat to see what sound driver it is: > > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) > > Installed devices: > > pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro3> at io 0xd800 irq 5 kld snd_maestro= 3 > > (4p/1r/0v channels duplex default) > > > > 3. So then I load the driver directly to /boot/loader.conf: > > snd_maestro3_load=3D"YES" > > > > 4. The I reboot the system and used xmms to play my mp3. It runs and > > can play the file but no sound! Pump up the volume but nothing > > happens. The weird thing is the sound works on Windows. I've search > > the startup messages /var/run/dmesg.boot and found the following: > > > > pci0: <bridge, PCI-unknown> at device 7.3 (no driver attached) > > pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro3> port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xf3ffe000-0xf3= ffffff irq > > 5 at device 8.0 on pci0 > > pcm0: failed: rid 0x10 is ioport, requested 3 > > pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > > pcm0: <SigmaTel STAC9721/23 AC97 Codec> > > > > Now could there be something wrong with the pci0 or the pcm0? Any > > pointers on how to fix this? > > >=20 > While converting maestro3(4) to MPSAFE one I noticed the same thing. > Unloading/reloading the driver fixed it. I guess there are cases that > the hardware were not initialized correctly. But it was hard to > reproduce it on my system and I just met just two times so far. > Due to lack of publicly available documentaion from ESS it's also > difficult to know what is the reason. :-( > Btw, does the issue vanish away when you cold start your system? >=20 > You may get better chance if the driver is linked into kernel. >=20 > -- > Regards, > Pyun YongHyeon > http://www.kr.freebsd.org/~yongari | yongari@freebsd.org >=20 --=20 Muzaffar Ariff mus.bsd@gmail.com
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