[LAU] Delta 44 on recent motherboard

[David Causse]

Hi,

I bought a new PC with a Gigabyte PH67 UD3 B3 mobo after my old one died.
I own a Delta 44 so I needed PCI slots. It was hard to find a mobo with 
PCI slots, it seems to be completely deprecated (same for IDE).
Back to home the tragedy started, the Delta does not work at all, kernel 
error message is :

ICE1712 0000:05:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
invalid EEPROM (size = 255)
ICE1712 0000:05:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
ICE1712: probe of 0000:05:00.0 failed with error -5

If I try to reload the module the computer crash (no more mouse, numlock 
does not respond)

I tried some black magic :
- change PCI slot
- disable mobo sound chip

I don't have windows but I don't think it would perform better.

I suspect an incurable motherboard incompatibility :(
Note that my Delta is a bit old, I can see REV-D on the PCB with a 2003 
copyright.

This post is my last chance, Delta44 is the perfect card for my usage, 
convenient, reliable and extremely well supported on linux.

My system is Ubuntu 11.04 x64 with 2.6.38-8-generic kernel, the problem 
was here also with a 32bits ubuntu 10.10. There is some lspci output at 
the end.

Many Thanks.


05:01.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: VIA Technologies Inc. 
ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller [1412:1712] (rev 02)
         Subsystem: VIA Technologies Inc. M-Audio Delta 44 [1412:d633]
         Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium 
 >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
         Region 0: I/O ports at dfc0 [size=32]
         Region 1: I/O ports at dff0 [size=16]
         Region 2: I/O ports at dfe0 [size=16]
         Region 3: I/O ports at df80 [size=64]
         Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 1
                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                 Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
         Kernel modules: snd-ice1712
00: 12 14 12 17 01 00 10 02 02 00 01 04 00 20 00 00
10: c1 df 00 00 f1 df 00 00 e1 df 00 00 81 df 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 12 14 33 d6
30: 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0c 01 00 00
40: 7f 80 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
60: 0f 80 01 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
80: 01 00 01 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

The lspci tree :
-[0000:00]-+-00.0  Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor 
Family DRAM Controller [8086:0100]
            +-01.0-[01]--+-00.0  nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] 
[10de:0a65]
            |            \-00.1  nVidia Corporation High Definition 
Audio Controller [10de:0be3]
            +-16.0  Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family MEI 
Controller #1 [8086:1c3a]
            +-1a.0  Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family USB 
Enhanced Host Controller #2 [8086:1c2d]
            +-1c.0-[02]--
            +-1c.2-[03]----00.0  Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168]
            +-1c.3-[04-05]----00.0-[05]----01.0  VIA Technologies Inc. 
ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller [1412:1712]
            +-1d.0  Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family USB 
Enhanced Host Controller #1 [8086:1c26]
            +-1f.0  Intel Corporation H67 Express Chipset Family LPC 
Controller [8086:1c4a]
            +-1f.2  Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family 4 port 
SATA IDE Controller [8086:1c00]