Problems with snd_via8233

Ariff Abdullah ariff at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 5 18:40:31 UTC 2007


[CC: -stable, as this doesn't seems like sound specific issues, or so
      I thought.]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 19:51:58 +0200
"TooMany Secrets" <toomany at toomany.net> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> First, please, excuse me my bad english.
> 
> I've got a laptop with FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE. The upgrade from RELEASE
> to STABLE was made this monday 2 (aprox.).
> Before the upgrade, sound work correctly, without any problem. But
> after compile the system (buildworld...) I don't have sound in the
> laptop.
> 
> Here is some information:
> 
> dmesg:
> pcm0: <VIA VT8235> port 0x1000-0x10ff irq 22 at device 17.5 on pci0
> pcm0: primary codec not ready (cnt = 0x7d0)
> device_attach: pcm0 attach returned 6
> 

This is indeed troublesome, since I couldn't recall any major changes
to this driver (snd_via8233) for RELENG_6. What release was that, 6.2
or 6.1? What kind of hardware is this, a laptop? Could it be because
of ACPI or APIC (try booting by disabling either both).

> pciconf -lv:
> pcm0 at pci0:17:5: class=0x040100 card=0x2032161f chip=0x30591106
> rev=0x50 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
>     device     = 'VT8233/33A/8235/8237 AC97 Enhanced Audio
>     Controller' class      = multimedia
>     subclass   = audio
> 
> cat /dev/sndstat:
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
> Installed devices:
> 
> sysctl -w hw.snd.verbose=2
> hw.snd.verbose: 2 -> 2
> 
> sysctl -a hw.snd
> hw.snd.report_soft_formats: 1
> hw.snd.targetirqrate: 32
> hw.snd.verbose: 2
> hw.snd.maxautovchans: 4
> hw.snd.unit: 0
> 
> uname -a
> FreeBSD leonsio.toomany.net 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #1: Mon
> Jul 2 20:29:31 CEST 2007
> root at leonsio.toomany.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LEONSIO  i386
> 
> And attached to this mail here it is the complet kernel config.
> 
> Please, anybody could help me?
> 


--
Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD

... Recording in stereo is obviously too advanced
    and confusing for us idiot ***** users :P ........
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