ESS Maestro3 no sound

[Muzaffar Ariff]

I'll give it a try first thing tomorrow. Had a busy week (hence no
reply) :) I personally don't have a clue on how to load the patch but
i think i can figure it out. I'll keep you guys posted next week.

-m-

On 7/1/05, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:07:59AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>  >
>  > It looks like yet more decay in the driver.  When I wrote it, I was lazy
>  > and didn't want to figure out which chip versions preferred IOPORT
>  > mapping and which ones preferred MEMIO, so I just had it try MEMIO first
>  > (since that is a better choice) and then fail back to IOPORT.  The
>  > resource manager seemed to tolerate this back then, but apparently it
>  > doesn't now.  My guess is that the first call to bus_alloc_resource
>  > returns success but actually fails, and in the process it leaks the
>  > resource out of the resource manager.  Then when you unload and load
>  > again, the resource is unavailable (since it was leaked) so the first
>  > call to fails, prompting it to go to the second call which succeeds
>  > fully.  This would mean that there are now a number of bugs in the
>  > resource manager which need to be fixed.
>  >
>  > Based on what I've seen over the years, it might be safe to assume that
>  > BAR0 on both the meastro3 and allegro1 is IOPORT and that BAR1 on the
>  > maestro3 is MEMIO.  Thus, the easiest change might be to just remove
>  > the first bus_alloc_resource call and force the driver to always use
>  > IOPORT.  I'd still like to use this as a test case for fixing the deeper
>  > bugs in the resource manager, though.
>  >
> 
> Thanks for detailed explanation. :-)
> Here is patch. Muzaffar, does the patch change your situation?
> 
> Btw, I encountered dreasful message "play interrupt timeout, channel dead"
> again. Unloading the driver and then reloading the driver fixed it.
> Since I see "pci_link2: Unable to choose an IRQ" during driver load
> I can't sure it's fault of maestro3(4) driver.
> 
>  > Scott
> 
> PS. Due to mail server issues I sent again.
> --
> Regards,
> Pyun YongHyeon
> 
> 
> 


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Muzaffar Ariff
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