snd_solo does it work?

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 07:52:08PM -0800, Kevin Downey wrote:
 > On 12/25/06, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
 > >On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 08:25:58PM -0800, Kevin Downey wrote:
 > > > I have an old i-series (made by acer) thinkpad.
 > > > %cat /dev/sndstat
 > > > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
 > > > Installed devices:
 > > > pcm0: <ESS Solo-1 (unknown vendor)> at io 0x7000,0x7080,0x70c0 irq 5 kld
 > > > snd_solo (1p/1r/0v channels duplex default)
 > > > %
 > > > but no sound. snd_solo is the only drive that gives me this and it is 
 > > the
 > > > one that sticks if I kldload snd_driver.ko
 > > >
 > > > I am not sure as to its exact sound chip, since it is a japanese model 
 > > and
 > > > I could not really find anything with matching specs on what I do know 
 > > on
 > > > thinkwiki. I had sound working about a year and a half ago but of 
 > > course I
 > > > blew that install away along with all its configs.  this thread suggest
 > > > there was some problem with the snd_solo driver:
 > > > 
 > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2006-January/003425.html
 > > > The links to the patch files no longer work.
 > > >
 > > > Is there any more current information on the status of snd_solo?
 > > >
 > >
 > >Maybe Ariff and other interesting developers want to know more
 > >details for your hardware.
 > >Please post dmesg ouput generated with bootverbose option.
 > >What's your FreeBSD version? Did CURRENT also show the same issue?
 > >
 > >--
 > >Regards,
 > >Pyun YongHyeon
 > >
 > I was sort of hoping for a "yes it does" or "no it doesn't" from other

Last time I tried it worked well.

 > people who use the snd_solo driver, but here:
 > $  uname -a
 > FreeBSD koebeest.nexus.lan 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0:
 > Mon Dec 25 11:48:50 PST 2006
 > kpd at koebeest.nexus.lan:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
 > $
 > 
 > I set boot_verbose="YES" in /boot/loader.conf in the hopes that this
 > is the way to get a verbose boot without having to be at the console.
 > I will attach the dmesg in the hopes that gmail/mailman/whatever else
 > it goes through doesn't stip it.
 > I have not tried -CURRENT.
 > 

How about booting without ACPI?

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon