Sound device reported but no devices created

[Ariff Abdullah]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:43:52 +1000
Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au> wrote:
> I've been trying to get sound working on a Compaq Armada 1580 with
> a recent 6-STABLE.  With devices 'sound' and 'snd_sbc' built into
> the kernel and no hints, I get:
> 
> ESS0004: adding io range 0x250-0x257, size=0x8, align=0
> pnpbios: handle 16 device ID ESS0004 (04007316)
> ESS1878: adding io range 0x220-0x22f, size=0x10, align=0
> ESS1878: adding io range 0x388-0x38b, size=0x4, align=0
> ESS1878: adding io range 0x330-0x331, size=0x2, align=0
> ESS1878: adding irq mask 0x20
> ESS1878: adding dma mask 0x2
> ESS1878: adding dma mask 0x20
> pnpbios: handle 17 device ID ESS1878 (78187316)
> ...
> unknown: <ESS0004> failed to probe at port 0x250-0x257 on isa0
> sbc0: <ESS ES1878> at port 0x220-0x22f,0x388-0x38b,0x330-0x331 irq 5
> drq 1,5 on isa0 sbc0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> unknown: <PNP0e03> failed to probe at port 0x3e0-0x3e1 on isa0
> Device configuration finished.
> 
> Note that there's no pcm reported and the only sound-related device
> is /dev/sndstat.  I get the same behaviour if I don't build sound
> into the kernel and kldload snd_sbc.ko (which autoloads sound.ko).
> 
> laptop1# sysctl hw.snd.verbose=2
> hw.snd.verbose: 1 -> 2
> laptop1# sysctl hw.snd
> hw.snd.targetirqrate: 32
> hw.snd.report_soft_formats: 1
> hw.snd.verbose: 2
> hw.snd.unit: 0
> hw.snd.maxautovchans: 0
> laptop1# cat /dev/sndstat 
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
> Installed devices:
> laptop1# 
> 
> I have successfully used sound on a similar laptop with 4.9, where
> the probes looked like:
> sbc0: <ESS ES1878> at port 0x220-0x22f,0x388-0x38b,0x330-0x331 irq 5
> drq 1,5 on isa0 pcm0: <ESS 18xx DSP> on sbc0
> 
> I suspect the problem is that sbc0 is not triggering attachment of
> pcm0 but I'm uncertain why.  Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> 
Try to disable ACPI, or edit /usr/src/sys/dev/sound/isa/sbc.c and
remove acpi module dependency (line 794)


--
Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD
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