Buzzing snd_emu10kx enabled card with r206173

Tue May 18 06:14:08 UTC 2010

On 18/05/2010 00:22, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Mark Stapper <stark at mapper.nl> wrote:
>   
>> On 12/04/2010 16:29, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>    When I first installed FreeBSD on this machine, I had a heck of a
>>>>>> time getting the soundcard's PCM channel to function properly. It
>>>>>> would buzz incessantly when I played any audio on it; I disabled the
>>>>>> onboard snd_hda enabled audio and things magically worked, until
>>>>>> today. After a kernel upgrade and a few warm boots, I'm back to where
>>>>>> I started from -- the PCM channel buzzes whenever I play audio;
>>>>>> line-in works perfectly fine however. I'm not seeing anything out of
>>>>>> the ordinary in commits over the past couple of weeks for the pcm
>>>>>> pieces (the last successful kernel I used was 2~3 weeks old).
>>>>>>    Are there any device_printf's I should add or a debug procedure
>>>>>> that you recommend I do to triage the situation?
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> -Garrett
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # uname -a
>>>>>> FreeBSD bayonetta.local 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #1 r206173M:
>>>>>> Sun Apr  4 19:54:22 PDT 2010
>>>>>> root at bayonetta.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BAYONETTA  amd64
>>>>>> # pciconf -lv | grep -A 4 emu
>>>>>> emu10kx0 at pci0:8:0:0:    class=0x040100 card=0x10211102 chip=0x00081102
>>>>>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>>>>>>    vendor     = 'Creative Technology LTD.'
>>>>>>    device     = 'sound blaster Audigy 2 (ca0108)'
>>>>>>    class      = multimedia
>>>>>>    subclass   = audio
>>>>>> # dmesg | grep 'irq 16'
>>>>>> uhci0: <Intel 82801JI (ICH10) USB controller USB-D> port 0xa800-0xa81f
>>>>>> irq 16 at device 26.0 on pci0
>>>>>> pcib7: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 16 at device 28.1 on pci0
>>>>>> emu10kx0: <Creative Audigy 4 [SB0610]> port 0xec00-0xec3f irq 16 at
>>>>>> device 0.0 on pci8
>>>>>> # dmesg | grep 'pcm'
>>>>>> pcm0: <EMU10Kx DSP front PCM interface> on emu10kx0
>>>>>> pcm0: <SigmaTel STAC9750/51 AC97 Codec>
>>>>>> pcm1: <EMU10Kx DSP rear PCM interface> on emu10kx0
>>>>>> pcm2: <EMU10Kx DSP center PCM interface> on emu10kx0
>>>>>> pcm3: <EMU10Kx DSP subwoofer PCM interface> on emu10kx0
>>>>>> pcm4: <EMU10Kx DSP side PCM interface> on emu10kx0
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Some more information:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. snd_emu10kx and sound are both modules loaded on boot, along with
>>>>> if_re, linux, and nvidia.
>>>>> 2. Disabling nvidia -> no change.
>>>>> 3. Disabling acpi -> unbootable system because many drivers can't map
>>>>> interrupts without it (can't test unless I isolate the drivers and
>>>>> enable them one by one -- something I'll try later on).
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm at a loss right now... my hunch is that it's potentially a bad
>>>>> interaction between the snd_emu10kx driver and another driver on the
>>>>> same PCI bus (which is just the ACPI and uhci drivers), but I can't
>>>>> test these claims. There are other funky things about my system that
>>>>> have changed over the past couple of kernel versions, like front USB
>>>>> ports could charge my iPhone, and now they don't... and the fact that
>>>>> ACPI blanking via nvidia now works again... so something may have
>>>>> changed on the backend, but I'm not 100% sure on what I should isolate
>>>>> as the root cause, yet.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Grr... it's `healed' itself again. I'll watch out for potential
>>>> catalysts to the issue in the future.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>     Ok. Damn issue came back and here's what happened. Rebooted
>>> several times with the same kernel and slight modifications, loading
>>> and unloading snd_emu10kx and sound, testing out snd_emu10k1, and no
>>> dice. The buzz was bad and it was driving me insane. Again, line-in
>>> functioned just fine, so I didn't know what the heck was going. I was
>>> getting desperate, so I finally broke down and booted the Gentoo Linux
>>> livecd. PCM worked just fine. Then I got irritated enough and finally
>>> just built the module and the sound support directly into the kernel
>>> and everything is hunky dorey again. Does anyone have a stab in the
>>> dark as to what's going on? Is it a potential bus or interrupt
>>> conflict / race condition that gets alleviated when support is nailed
>>> into the kernel? Or are other folks as stumped as I am, s.t. I should
>>> just try emailing current@ instead to see if someone maybe knows
>>> what's going on there :(...?
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Garrett
>>>       
>> I have the same problem.
>> I'll try compiling the driver in the kernel.
>>     
>     FWIW I've compiled the driver into the kernel for several
> iterations now and it works like a champ, so there's something with
> the sound subsystem that isn't jiving properly when loading from
> modules...
> HTH,
> -Garrett
>   
Thanks for the info.
I've noticed that when I load the kernel module at startup (by adding it
to loader.conf) chances of it working improve.
If I load it afterwards, the nice huff puff sounds come out of my
speaker again.
Compiling the new and improved kernel today.
Thanks for your help.
Greetz,
Mark

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