Re: es1989 sound card

Joe Fiorini wrote:
> I'm having trouble with my ESS sound card.  I'm not sure which model it is,
> but I do know that it's an es1989 chipset.  Here's what I have so far:
> 
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> /dev/sndstat:
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> Installed devices:
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> pcm0: <ESS Technology Allegro-1> at io 0xac00 irq 11 (4p/1r/0v channels
> duplex default)
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> 
> kldstat:
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> Id         Refs     Address            Size      Name
> 
> 2          1          0xc0a52000       93c8     snd_maestro3.ko
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> (I believe this is correct: when I changed loader.conf to load all sound
> drivers, it also loaded this one automatically.)
> 
>  
> 
> grep pcm0 /var/run/dmesg.boot
> 
> pcm0: <ESS Technology Allegro-1> port 0xac00-0xacff irq 11 at device 16.0 on
> pci0
> 
> pcm0: failed to enable memory mapping!
> 
> pcm0: <ESS Technology ES1988 AC97 Codec>
> 
>  
> 
> The problem is every program I've tried (mpg123, and the Gnome sound
> preferences applet) will "play" a file, but no sound will come out.  I'm not
> receiving any error messages, and I've messed with my speakers'
> configuration.  Anybody have any ideas?  Is it because of the failed memory
> mapping error message?  

Definitely not. I get that too on my HP Omnibook with a similar sound 
chip and it is harmless. What is the output of the 'mixer' command? Also 
could you try 'vmstat -i' before and after playing something (using 
mpg123 for instance)?

Cheers,
-- 
Panagiotis Astithas
Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD
Network Management Center
National Technical University of Athens, Greece