Kent West wrote: > According to the howto I'm following (sortta - it appears to be out of > date, maybe?), I'm supposed to be able to give the command "cat > /dev/sndstat" and get a list of info on my sound card. Yet when I try, I > get "cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device". Yet when I do an "ls -l > \dev\snd*" I get: > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 6 Oct 1 16:46 /dev/sndstat > which is pretty much what the howto suggests I should get. > > If I run "saytime" or play some other sound utility, etc, I hear a dit, > like something's being played VERY fast, so I suspect it may be related > to an IRQ conflict or something, but this is a PCI card (ES137x) which I > thought was more or less PnP. Of course I'm still very green in > LinuxLand, so it could be something very simple that I'm > stupidly/ignorantly overlooking. > > Apparently the dmesg "queue" has been replaced with other system events > since the last reboot; is there anyway I can get to that information > without rebooting (after all, reboots are for that other OS...)? > > Thanks for any help!
I did a "rmmod es1371" and then an "insmod es1371" and then was able to see some info via dmesg. dmesg returned: es1371: unloading es1371: version v0.11 time 15:59:48 Sep 10 1999 es1371: found adapter at io 0x1080 irq 11 es1371: features: joystick 0x0 es1371: codec vendor CRY revision 3 es1371: codec features Headphone out 18bit DAC 18bit ADC es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement es1371: unloading es1370: version v0.20 time 15:59:44 Sep 10 1999 es1371: version v0.11 time 15:59:48 Sep 10 1999 es1371: found adapter at io 0x1080 irq 11 es1371: features: joystick 0x0 es1371: codec vendor CRY revision 3 es1371: codec features Headphone out 18bit DAC 18bit ADC es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement Does this look okay? Related question: Do I need isapnptools for a PCI card (I don't think so). Should "pnpdump" return any info on this card? The last line is "#No boards found". Or is "pnpdump" just for ISA PnP cards? Thanks.
