ESS Maestro3 no sound

[Muzaffar Ariff]

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. 

> 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 at 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_maestro3
>  >     (4p/1r/0v channels duplex default)
>  >
>  > 3. So then I load the driver directly to /boot/loader.conf:
>  >     snd_maestro3_load="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 0xf3ffe000-0xf3ffffff 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?
>  >
> 
> 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?
> 
> You may get better chance if the driver is linked into kernel.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Pyun YongHyeon
> http://www.kr.freebsd.org/~yongari      |       yongari at freebsd.org
> 


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Muzaffar Ariff
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