Bug 77138

Summary:	Sound Modules Fail for Enigma kernel 2.4.18-17.7.x on Dell Latitude J750
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	David S Alden <dave.alden>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	7.2	CC:	bruno
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Description David S Alden 2002-11-01 17:06:07 UTC

Description of Problem:
After updating to the latest i686 kernel release 2.4.18-17.7.x for Red Hat
Enigma the sound drivers were observed to no longer be functional.  Lsmod
shows:

maestro3               27848   2 (autoclean)
ac97_codec             12224   0 (autoclean) [maestro3]
soundcore               6212   2 (autoclean) [maestro3]

and /var/log/messages includes after booting:

Nov  1 11:00:20 ganymede kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:08.0
Nov  1 11:00:20 ganymede kernel: maestro3: Configuring ESS Maestro3(i) found at IO 0xD800 IRQ 5
Nov  1 11:00:20 ganymede kernel: maestro3:  subvendor id: 0x00bb1028
Nov  1 11:00:20 ganymede kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7609 (SigmaTel STAC9721/23)
Nov  1 11:00:20 ganymede modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0
Nov  1 11:00:21 ganymede modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Nov  1 11:00:21 ganymede modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
Nov  1 11:00:21 ganymede modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Nov  1 11:00:21 ganymede modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
Nov  1 11:00:31 ganymede kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Nov  1 11:00:33 ganymede kernel: hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Nov  1 11:00:33 ganymede kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Nov  1 11:00:37 ganymede modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Nov  1 11:00:37 ganymede modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
Nov  1 11:00:37 ganymede modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Nov  1 11:00:37 ganymede modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0

/proc/ioports includes:

d800-d8ff : ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator
  d800-d8ff : maestro3


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How Reproducible: Always reproducible on Dell Latitude J750


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Actual Results:
System no longer produces sound

Expected Results:
System sound applications and alerts functional

Additional Information:
Sound is functional running Windows98 and Windows2K on same machine.  Previous
kernel release 2.4.9-34 was also functional.

Comment 1 Bzizou 2002-11-12 10:58:05 UTC

Same thing on a DELL Latitude C800 with redhat 7.3. No more sound, and mixer
applet from KDE takes 100% of the CPU. It worked with the previous kernel
(2.4.18-10).

Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2002-11-12 11:01:05 UTC

see
http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/testkernels/
for a kernel with a fix

Comment 3 Arjan van de Ven 2002-11-16 11:07:02 UTC

An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-262.html