Re: [Alsa-user] Re: diamond mx-300 vortex2 chip problems with quake3 wolfenstein etc.

[Erik <as...@zo...>]

Jeff Muizelaar helped me out

It solved my problem:

> > Do you know what the problem is? 
> > I've searched on the internet but no one seems to have 
> > this problem. 

Yeah this is sort of an interesting problem..
My best suggestion is try running:
$ setpci -d '12eb:*' 40.B=ff

This seems to fix problems with the via chipsets.
Also you may want to try the latest code in the openvortex
cvs as it has a similar fix included.

















On Monday 10 November 2003 15:25, Erik wrote:
> system specs:
> - AMD XP 1800+ processor
> - MSI K7Turbo moederboard
> - VIA chipset
> - linux mandrake 9.2
> - ALSA 0.9.8
> - Promise RAID
> - kernel 2.4.23-pre9
>
> My sound in games like wolfenstein and quake3 dies after a couple of
> seconds i have great sound but then it stops
>
> i used dmesg and snipped this from it:
>
> devfs_mk_dir(snd): using old entry in dir: c12c85c0 ""
> PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0c.0
> Vortex: hardware init.... <6>done.
> SDAC detected <3>Vortex: vortex_fifo_setadbctrl fail
> Vortex: vortex_fifo_setadbctrl fail
> Vortex: vortex_fifo_setadbctrl fail      (# this failures shows up when i
> stop Vortex: vortex_fifo_setadbctrl fail           and start alsasound
> after Vortex: vortex_fifo_setadbctrl fail           soundcrash in
> wolfenstein) Vortex: vortex_fifo_setadbctrl fail
>
> lspci -vv :
>
> 00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor Vortex 2 (rev fe)
>         Subsystem: Diamond Multimedia Systems Monster Sound II
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 32 (1000ns min, 3000ns max), cache line size 08
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
>         Region 0: Memory at df100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
>         Region 1: I/O ports at b000 [size=8]
>         Region 2: I/O ports at b400 [size=8]
>         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>
>
> i have to stop alsasound and restart it to get my sound back
> and have to do modprobe snd-pcm-oss to get it to work again in wolfenstein
>
> aplay is also not playing correctly some wav files (for example icq sounds
> Message.wav has an echo,
>  with aplay -Dplug:dmix /usr/share/licq/sounds/icq/Message.wav the wav
> sounded ok echo is gone
>
> esdplay can play all wav files (when module snd-pcm-oss is loaded)
>
>
> does anyone know a solution?
>
> Erik
>
>
>
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