On Apr 5, 2007, at 6:27 AM, Kimi Ostro wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I decided I wanted to play music today on laptop, but realised there
> was no sound and only interesting could find is:
> neo0 at pci1 dev 0 function 1: NeoMagic 256ZX audio
> neo0: can't map buffer

The NeoMagic audio device uses the buffer resident in the device  
itself, not main memory.  That message is telling you that the driver  
was unable to map that hardware buffer into the kernel's address  
space.  It possibly means that you have the device unconfigured in  
your BIOS settings (the most likely cause of this message is that the  
PCI bus address register for that buffer has not been programmed by  
the BIOS at power-up).

>
> % audioctl -a
> audioctl: /dev/audioctl0: Device not configured
> % mixerctl a
> mixerctl: /dev/mixer0: Device not configured
>
> never tried before today.
>
> full dmesg attached.
>
> -- 
> Kimi
> <dmesg.boot>

-- thorpej