Hello,
I'm trying since 3.8 release to figure out what's
wrong on my desktop computer. Now I'm running 3.9 and
I still have this strange behaviour (dmesg attached to
the end of this text block).
The issue is related to the sound applications. The
hardware is a VIA8233 AC97 + ICEnsemble ICE1232. I
started with 2 multimedia applications:
mplayer-1.0pre7p15
xmms-1.2.10p6 (xmms-mp3-1.2.10p6)
XMMS is playing almost ok, because some pitches and
chunks are audible. This issue was understandable when
I found out on the web that this hardware is locked on
a 48000 Hz rate, so you must use this sampling rate.
XMMS is not able to do this sampling, so I tested it
without this feature. The mp3 is played, but in the
moment I receive 'auvia0: codec invalid' in the
console, the volume jumps up. If I check the mixerctl
-a setting, I can see that outputs.master=255,255 and
inputs.dac=255,255 , even they were selected on the
average values before. If i turn them back, after a
while they jump again on the maximum values.
MPlayer has the option to do a sample rate on 48000
Hz. I use it, the sound in not a garbage, but the
behavior is the same like XMMS: the two mixerctl
settings are set to maximum at the first report of
'auvia0: codec invalid' - blue background text
reported in the console . At the second report of the
same text, the sound is gone. I checked and I saw
another two mixerctl setting modified:
outputs.master.mute=on (it was off) and
inputs.dac.mute=on (it was off, too).
On both applications, I set the mixerctl settings
back, but they are changed after a while , like I said
before.
I installed another well known decoder:
mpg123-0.59rp4
I started this command line application with sample
rate set to 48000 Hz and everything is ok. That text
message is not reported in the console, and the sound
is ok.
I found just 2 people complaining about this on the
web, but also many own this hardware and they don't
reports such behaviours. I even changed some values in
source code (TIMEOUT define in
/usr/src/sys/dev/pci/auvia.c ) but no luck. I don't
know what's wrong, maybe a BIOS PCI setting. There is
also a comment on the source code of OpenBSD related
to this error message, dated back in 3.2 release.
If anyone has a hint, please sent it to me. I'm not
sure if this is because of driver or the application.
Thanks
OpenBSD 3.9 (GENERIC) #617: Thu Mar 2 02:26:48 MST
2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ ("AuthenticAMD"
686-class, 256KB L2 cache) 1.41 GHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE
cpu0: AMD Powernow: TS
real mem = 1073258496 (1048104K)
avail mem = 972615680 (949820K)
using 4278 buffers containing 53764096 bytes (52504K)
of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(87) BIOS, date 12/05/03,
BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfb460
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
apm0: flags 70102 dobusy 1 doidle 1
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xdf94
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdf00/144
(7 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 5 7 11
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:17:0 ("VIA
VT8233 ISA" rev 0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xf800
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VIA VT8366 PCI" rev
0x00
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA VT8366 AGP" rev
0x00
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440
AGP" rev 0xa4
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100
emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
xl0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "3Com 3c905B 100Base-TX"
rev 0x30: irq 11, address 00:10:5a:9a:42:5c
exphy0 at xl0 phy 24: 3Com internal media interface
viapm0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "VIA VT8233 ISA" rev
0x00
iic0 at viapm0
"unknown" at iic0 addr 0x18 not configured
"unknown" at iic0 addr 0x4e not configured
pciide0 at pci0 dev 17 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE"
rev 0x06: ATA100, channel 0 configured to
compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <QUANTUM FIREBALLP
AS40.0>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 38172MB, 78177792 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <TEAC, CD-W552E, 1.09>
SCSI0 5/cdrom removable
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
uhci0 at pci0 dev 17 function 2 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev
0x18: irq 7
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1 at pci0 dev 17 function 3 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev
0x18: irq 7
usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2 at pci0 dev 17 function 4 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev
0x18: irq 7
usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2
uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
auvia0 at pci0 dev 17 function 5 "VIA VT8233 AC97" rev
0x10: irq 11
ac97: codec id 0x49434511 (ICEnsemble ICE1232)
ac97: codec features headphone, 18 bit DAC, 18 bit
ADC, KS Waves 3D
audio0 at auvia0
isa0 at mainbus0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pmsi0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pmsi0 mux 0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
lm0 at isa0 port 0x290/8: W83697HF
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
biomask e7fd netmask effd ttymask ffff
pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
auvia0: codec invalid
auvia0: codec invalid
auvia0: codec invalid
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