On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 08:07:35PM -0600, Gavin Scott wrote: > Hi, > > I am a brand-new Debian user but have used other dists for several years. I > just installed potato and dist-upgraded to woody. Welcome aboard.
> > I'm trying to get sound to work on my laptop with ESS maestro-2. I've had it > configured for me automatically by Redhat 6.2 and Redhat 7.0 before. > > When I run alsaconf and select ESS-Maestro2 I answer a bunch of questions > (Max. dac frame size in kB, etc.) which I have no idea what the answers are > so I select middles in the given ranges. First, is my problem related to > these answers & if so any ideas where to find them? > > On finishing I get: > Loading driver: > Starting sound driver: es1968. > Setting the PCM volume to 100% and the Master output volume to 50% > The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system. > Could not initialize the mixer, the card was probably > not detected correctly. > > Do I not have the ALSA sound driver? lsmod reveals a bunch of sound-related > modules -- looks okay. > > When I try to play a sound I get nothing -- wavp appears to play wav files, > but no sound comes out (volume is up). Running amixer I get: > The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system. > > I read a similar question on this list and the response was the alsa was beta > software and to try OSS. I can't find deb's for that with dselect. Wouldn't > OSS also be kernel sound modules, i.e. under /lib/modules/2.2.17/sound? Are > there deb's for these modules (which are different from the alsa modules I > have under there now) or will I need to compile the kernel myself to go that > route? > > Any help will be greatly appreciated! > > Gavin Scott > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have an ESS maestro-2 on my laptop, also. I simply needed to recompile my kernel with support for the right driver. Using kernel version 2.2.17pre6, just say yes to sound support, and then select the meastro 2 driver. Once finished with the "make menuconfig" step, the relevant part of my /usr/src/linux/.config file looks like: # # Sound # CONFIG_SOUND=y # CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371 is not set CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO=y # CONFIG_SOUND_ESSSOLO1 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ICH is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SONICVIBES is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDCLAS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDPIN is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_OSS is not set I'm not an expert with this sound stuff by anyone's measure, so there may be quite a bit more tweaking to make things work optimally. This should get you going, though. -Al
