Re: [Alsa-user] es18xx soundcard troubles

2007-08-02 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/02/2007 03:03 PM, Yan Seiner wrote: HAH! Success! Congrats :-) Here's the magic incantations on a Compaq Armada 1700, ess1869 chipset, and 2.6.21 kernel: boot with noapic acpi=off pci=biosirq I doubt the noapic makes a difference? acpi *must* be enabled in the bios, and

Re: [Alsa-user] es18xx soundcard troubles

2007-08-02 Thread Yan Seiner
Rene Herman napsal(a): On 08/01/2007 04:07 PM, Yan Seiner wrote: From the various threads I've found on this, it appears that the driver broke sometime fairly recently, and that it may indeed work with older kernels. Perhaps the fault is with the acpi system changes in recent kernels.

Re: [Alsa-user] es18xx soundcard troubles

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 02:57 AM, Troy Heidner wrote: Thanks for the help! Sure, but please always keep existing CCs intact on these kinds of messages. Otherwise the next poor sod that googles for the same problem hits on these first few messages of a conversation, but not the solution since that was

Re: [Alsa-user] es18xx soundcard troubles

2007-08-01 Thread Yan Seiner
Rene Herman napsal(a): The ESS0009 is the chip's CTRL port but I assume from the single ESS1869 already present there that it's okay without. If you are upto applying the attached patch and rebuilding the kernel please do so, but assuming you are not, you can work-around the driver not

Re: [Alsa-user] es18xx soundcard troubles

2007-08-01 Thread Yan Seiner
Yan Seiner napsal(a): Rene Herman napsal(a): The ESS0009 is the chip's CTRL port but I assume from the single ESS1869 already present there that it's okay without. If you are upto applying the attached patch and rebuilding the kernel please do so, but assuming you are not, you can

Re: [Alsa-user] es18xx soundcard troubles

2007-08-01 Thread Yan Seiner
Yan Seiner napsal(a): Yan Seiner napsal(a): Hi Rene: I've also been trying to get this chip to work. This exchange gives me new hope. Here's what I have: debian:~# cat /sys/bus/pnp/devices/00:*/id | grep ESS ESS0006 ESS1869 debian:~# cd /sys/bus/pnp/devices/00:05

Re: [Alsa-user] es18xx soundcard troubles

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 04:07 PM, Yan Seiner wrote: From the various threads I've found on this, it appears that the driver broke sometime fairly recently, and that it may indeed work with older kernels. Perhaps the fault is with the acpi system changes in recent kernels. The fact that the driver

Re: [Alsa-user] es18xx soundcard troubles

2007-08-01 Thread Yan Seiner
Rene Herman wrote: On 08/01/2007 04:07 PM, Yan Seiner wrote: From the various threads I've found on this, it appears that the driver broke sometime fairly recently, and that it may indeed work with older kernels. Perhaps the fault is with the acpi system changes in recent kernels.

Re: [Alsa-user] es18xx soundcard troubles

2007-08-01 Thread Troy Heidner
Rene, Holy crap, I've got sound! :) You were right, that modprobe line did it. The state= line in the resources file was already set to active. A couple of the resources were different than you listed, but when I plugged the appropriate values into the modprobe line, everything worked! The

Re: [Alsa-user] es18xx soundcard troubles

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 08:52 PM, Troy Heidner wrote: Holy crap, I've got sound! :) Good to hear. I'll submit the little patch for inclusion and (hopefully, it didn't really get tested, but oh well) future drivers should work a little better directly (that is, without you needing to specify the

Re: [Alsa-user] es18xx soundcard troubles

2007-07-31 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/31/2007 05:44 AM, Troy Heidner wrote: I'm new to the list here, and I'm fairly new to linux as well. I have an older Gateway Solo 5150 laptop computer that I'm trying to run Fedora Core 6 on. It's a PII-400 with 288MB of RAM. I have gotten nearly EVERYTHING working splendidly with