Alaric Ravenhall wrote:
>
> Hi.
> I have the solo-1 audiodrive as well. I have found some *interesting*
> idiosyncracies of this card.
>
> >For the last few days, I have lost all sound.
> >
> >[sda@sdander sda]$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc.
> >[ALi] M1541 (rev 04) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]
> >M5243 (rev 04) 00:02.0 USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]
> >M5237 USB (rev 03) 00:03.0 Bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M7101
> >PMU 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1533 PCI to ISA
> >Bridge [Aladdin IV] (rev c3) 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS
> >Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive (rev 01) 00:0b.0 Ethernet
> >controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT86C100A [Rhine 10/100] (rev 06)
> >00:0f.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE (rev c1)
> >01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP
> >1X/2X (rev 5c)
> >
> >Nothing is being written to /etc/modules.conf
>
> My question is, what is your bios set to as far as Pnp? I had my system set
> to PnP 'Yes' because I had an SMC Ultra ISA network card that REFUSED to
> work without it.
>
> After doing a little 'dmesg | more' I found an error at the beginning of
> bootup that told me 'unable to reserve IRQ 0 for solo-1 audiodrive.'
> I did a little deducing, and looked at my irq's (more /proc/interrupts)
> and saw a system timer on IRQ 0, and my ISA card at IRQ 5. Hrmmm. So, I
> turned PnP to 'no', and reserved IRQ 10 (the correct IRQ for the network
> card) and SHABANG! I had sound.
>
> You used to have sound?? What hardware have you added or what changes have
> you made? This particular sound card is very picky about its configuration..
> the BIOS may be botching it.
> Also, if you just upgraded, I've found in the last 3 betas of LM8.0 that the
> mixer's volume is set to -0- by default. Interesting, eh??
>
> Also, how come on my latest installation of 8.0 beta 3 the artsd was not
> running? On beta 1 it wasn't even installed, it didn't look like. I also
> would have appreciated a small hint or two about artsdsp. Luckily I read the
> documentation. As soon as I restarted arts, and made sure nothing was using
> the sound, XMMS could play through it just fine as well as system
> notification sounds ;)
> Ravenhall
>
I have a total PCI system and my PnP in bios is disabled. This card
which uses the snd-es1938 module with the 2.4 kernel, hasn't given me
any problems since LM7. The problem turned out to be a -kudzu- update
from -4mdk to -5mdk. Chmouel caught up to it and it's working great now.
;)
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