ESS Allergro ES1988 problems on 5.1R

[Sergey A. Osokin]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 02:30:05AM -0000, admin at impress.lt wrote:
> Hi, i got this laptop HP Pavilion n5470, and ESS Allegro ES1988 sound card,
> also i've installed FreeBSD 5.1RELEASE. I added theese lines into my
> /boot/loader.conf <snd_maestro3_load="YES">, and after this i can here sound
> just from cd when doing "cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 play 1, but i cannot play
> any other files, and when i try to do "mpg123 xxx.mp3, i can see this error
> in my /var/log/messages :
> pcm0: play:0: play interrupt timeout, channel dead
> 
> Heres my dmesg log www.muaythai.lt/dmesg.txt
> This is what i get from grep pcm /var/run/dmesg.boot:
> Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/snd_pcm.ko" at 0xc06b02a8.
> pcm0: <ESS Technology Allegro-1> port 0x1400-0x14ff at device 8.0 on pci0
> pcm0: failed to enable memory mapping!
> pcm0: <ESS Technology ES1988 AC97 Codec>
> 
> And this is what i get when cat /dev/sndstat:
> 
> FreeBSD Audio driver (new pcm)
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <ESS Technology Allegro-1> at io 0x1400 irq 5 (4p/1r/0v channels
> duplex default
> 
> What you offer to do for me to solve this problem ?

Add following options into your /boot/loader.conf
(or /boot/loader.conf.local)

boot_verbose="YES"
hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1"

reboot your box and see if it helps you.
So if not, please provide more information about your
pcm driver status with the next command
$ dmesg | grep ^pcm

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