[ Please try to turn off Gmail's HTML output. ] On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 00:25:44 -0400, Dennis Creedan wrote: > All, > > I've upgraded from woody to sarge to etch to lenny, and I am having problems > with sound. (I had no problems in woody, but I did not test sound in sarge > or etch since it was one upgrade right after the other). Here are my specs: > > Debian 5.0 (lenny) on Dell Inspiron 8100. Sound card is obviously an ESS > Maestro3 > kernel is a custom build (2.6.26) > > excerpt from 'lspci -vv' > 02:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI > Audio Accelerator (rev 10) > Subsystem: Dell ES1983S Maestro-3i (Dell Inspiron 8100)
According to /usr/share/misc/pci.ids, this should be a card with the device-ID 1998, listed as supported in the Debian wiki. Just to be sure, check if "lspci -nn" really shows "[125d:1998]" for the card. [...] > output from 'lsmod' > snd_maestro3 15940 0 > firmware_class 6080 1 snd_maestro3 > snd_ac97_codec 85952 1 snd_maestro3 > ac97_bus 1344 1 snd_ac97_codec > snd_pcm_oss 29632 0 > snd_mixer_oss 11840 1 snd_pcm_oss > snd_pcm 48776 3 snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss > snd_page_alloc 6760 1 snd_pcm > snd_seq_oss 23476 0 > snd_seq_midi_event 5120 1 snd_seq_oss > snd_seq 36800 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event > snd_timer 15204 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq > snd_seq_device 5516 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq > snd 36916 9 > snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device > soundcore 4740 1 snd All important modules are loaded as far as I can tell. [...] > I followed the directions from http://wiki.debian.org/snd-maestro3, namely: > su > aptitude install build-essential > wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/firmware/alsa-firmware-1.0.20.tar.bz2 Are you sure that this is the correct version of the firmware? The Debian wiki refers to 1.0.19. Did you try older versions as well? > modprobe -r snd_maestro3 > modprobe snd_maestro3 //this takes ~ 1 minute to execute > after the above command, dmesg shows: > firmware: requesting ess/maestro3_assp_kernel.fw > ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:03.0 disabled > Maestro3: probe of 0000:02:03.0 failed with error -2 It seems that the last two lines are typical for missing firmware: http://bugs.debian.org/464191#58 However, you did generate the firmware, so maybe each version of ALSA only works with the matching version of the firmware. I start from the output of cat /proc/asound/version and build the *.fw files from the upstream tarball with the exact same version number. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
