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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:30:11 -0600
From: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
To: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com>
Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org, mobile@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ESS Allegro-1 not working in 4.4-STABLE?
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Andy,

Good analysis.  Unfortunately, there isn't anything else that I can suggest
at this point.  Maybe someone else knows of some magic that can be done to
coerce the BIOS into configuring PCI resources.

Scott

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:02:14PM -0600, Andy Sparrow wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> My new laptop (HP Omnibook 6100) has an internal PCI sound card, an ESS 
> Allegro-1 (vendor=0x125d, dev=0x1988), but kldloading the Maestro3
> driver 
> gives:
> 
>     pcm0: <ESS Technology Allegro-1> irq 5 at device 3.0 on pci2
>     pcm0: unable to allocate register space
>     device_probe_and_attach: pcm0 attach returned 6
> 
> and there's no output relating to the Maestro3 driver from /dev/sndstat,
> although 'kldstat' shows 'snd_maestro3' loaded. 
> 
> Loading the module before booting seems to make no difference. The
> speakers 
> sort of crackle (e.g. on PCCard insertion/removal), like they're trying
> to 
> make some
> sound - but they don't...
> 
> Inserting print messages into the driver makes it clear that it's the
> attempt 
> to allocate SYS_RES_IOPORT that is failing.
> 
> There's no option in my (Pheonix) BIOS you can set to indicate that this
> isn't 
> a PNPOS, as some have suggested to others, and PNPBIOS doesn't make any 
> difference (as this is a PCI device, but I tried it anyway).
> 
> Everything else on this laptop works great (with some frobbing) - can
> anyone 
> suggest anything I can try?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> AS
> 
> 
> 
> 

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