ESS Maestro3 no sound

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:32:54PM +0800, Muzaffar Ariff wrote:
 > Ooohhh thats a whole lot of questions, I'll try my best to answer it :)
 > 
 > > Thanks for your report. It seems that you have other issues not
 > > known to me. Does the driver prints timeout message such as
 > > "pcm0:play:0: play interrupt timeout, channel dead"?
 > Nope, I checked in /var/log/messages and there is nothing wrong with
 > it or that line. In fact before I never had that problem.
 > 
 > > xmms plays songs with normal speed?(i.e. just no sound)
 > Yup, xmms plays my mp3s fine, its just no sound is coming out of it.
 > I've tried mute & unmute from the function button on the laptop and
 > increasing the volume, but nothing seems to happen.
 > 

I see. It sounds like Codec issues.

 > > Without loading ACPI do you suffer from the same problem?
 > If I get you right ACPI means Adv. Configuration and Power Management
 > support right? I can unload an ACPI from /boot/loader.conf but there
 > are several ACPIs, which one you want me to unload?
 > 
You can disable ACPI in loader. If you use beastie menu you can find
a menu item that disables ACPI(probably Safe Mode). If you don't use
beastie menu then you will see a message "Hit [Enter] to boot
immediately, or any other key for command prompt." In that screen,
just press SPACE bar to get OK prompt. Once you get the prompt enter     
"set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1" and then enter "boot". Note, depending
on your system booting kernel without ACPI may not work at all.

 > > Could show me "pciconf -lv" output for your ESS card?
 > pcm0 at pci0:8:0:  class=0x040100 card=0x00b11028 chip=0x1998125d rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
 >     vendor   = 'ESS Technology'
 >     device   = 'ES1980 Maestro-3 PCI Audio Accelerator'
 >     class    = multimedia
 >     subclass = audio
 > 
 > > If you can run "pciconf -lv", locate a line somthing like
 > > pcm0 at pciX:Y:Z. Then show me output of
 > > "pciconf -r pciX:Y:Z 0:ff" before and after loading the drier.
 > After loading the driver this is what i got:
 > #pciconf -r pci0:8:0 0:ff
 > 1998125d 
 > 
 > Before (I simply recompiled and install the old maestro3.c driver) I got this:
 > # pciconf -r pci0:8:0 0:ff
 > 1998125d 
 >  
Oops.. It's typo. It should be read "pciconf -r pci0:8:0 0:0xff".

 > Both before and after looks the same. Hope thats what you want. 
 > 
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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon