ESS Maestro3 no sound
Muzaffar Ariff
mus.bsd at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 05:23:51 GMT 2005
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
mus.bsd at gmail.com
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