Re: HP Omnibook 6100 sound card ESS Allegro-1 not working

> Hi,

Hi Hans,

> Is there any HP Omnibook 6100 sound card news ?

Not from me. I canned the 6100 & reverted to the 6000. Sound is essential for 
me on a "production" laptop when I'm travelling...

> Last entry I found here
> was from Andy Sparrow (Oct 09, 2001) and with a 4.5-STABLE of yesterday I
> still get the same results that Andy reported:
>     kldload snd_meastro3
> 
>     pcm0: <ESS Technology Allegro-1> irq 5 at device 3.0 on pci2
>     pcm0: unable to allocate register space
>     device_probe_and_attach: pcm0 attach returned 6
> 
> Yielding an empty /dev/sndstat while kldstat shows that snd_meastro3.ko
> is loaded.  There is no bios option to disable PNP OS in this Omnibook.

Because all the supported OS's for this machine are PNP OS...

That's HP's stance, apparently.

> So no working sound :( Any new things I could try ?

ISRT that the explanation at the time was that the BIOS isn't allocating the 
resources for the device, thus the OS has to do it - but we don't.

I tried November's -CURRENT hoping that ACPI would do a better job, but it 
made the laptop crash on boot. I provided the output of acpidump at the time - 
you might like to try a recent -CURRENT snapshot, and see if this works now, 
because this is The Way Forward, I guess.

Disabling ACPI let the machine boot. I found a combination of settings on 
-CURRENT  that actually let me get sound (wheee!), but wouldn't give me 
something else I considered vital at the same time - PCCARD, IIRC.

There was another guy working the same problems in December, see the -CURRENT 
lists. Don't know how that ended up - I sold mine to a co-worker who wanted to 
run Win2K & Linux on it...

Good luck!!

Cheers,

AS

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