I have got (for free) this old notebook, a Toshiba Satellite 200CDS, which still works very fine. I installed linux on it and wanted to proceed to configure the soundcard as I had many times before on other computers using alsa ..
My information was that the thing had an ess688 chip, using io=0x220, irq=7, dma=1. So I compiled the es1688 driver, which, according to the soundcard matrix, is the right one for this chip. settings in modules.conf reflect the above information. But /etc/init.d/alsasound start just tells me there is no such device present. Since I grew a little frustrated by this I tried the 2.4.24 kernel OSS driver instead, which is the generic sb driver in this case. Running modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 produces no error, syslog shows SB 3.01 detected OK (220) ESS chip ES688 detected and sound comes out of the speaker if I attempt to play something. Still, I would be happier with alsa, so I am wondering why it doesn't work. Possible problems: So far, I haven't actually found out what kind of bus this chip is on .. It's not PCI, that's for sure, afaik this thing doesn't even have a PCI bus. It could even by MCA, for all I know. If there is any info I could supply to clear this up, please tell me. I don't really know where to look for it. -- Michael Hellwig aka The Eye olymp.idle.at admin check out http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~csaa5128 for gpg public key and don't hesitate to look at http://laerm.or.at ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
