CaT wrote: > 1. Sound. This laptop has an ESS ES1980 PCI sound card. Neither of the > ESS options in the kernel worked. Does anyone know if it's possible > to get sound out of this sucker under linux? > > Here's the lspci output for it btw: > > 00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology: Unknown device 199a >
Looks like this device was not assigned an IRQ by the BIOS. Check your BIOS, and see if it has a setting for "Plug and Play OS". If it does, disable it. I have seen failure to recognize PCI devices (especially sound and network cards) be caused by this. What I think happens is that if "Plug and Play OS" is enabled, then the BIOS expects the OS to assign IRQ's. Linux works better when the BIOS gives it pre-assigned IRQ's. This may not be your problem, but it's worth checking. --Greg
