On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Anton Graham wrote:
> Submitted 25-Aug-00 by Asheesh Laroia:
> > Has anyone configured an ESS 1868 sound card using Mandrake? I can't get
> > it to work. I used Harddrake, and selected sound card, then ESS 1868, and
> > it seemed to give it a reasonable configuration set (IRQ 5, I/O 220), but
> > the "modprobe sb" afterwards gives me a "device busy" error. If I'm not
> > mistaken, the configuration set it gives the card is the same config as a
> > true SoundBlaster 16.
>
> I have yet to see sounddrake _not_ choke on an ESS 18xx card. Yes, for
> kernel sound modules, the config is 100% identical to an SB.
>
> The questions are: 1) is the card set up plug and pray? 2) If so, have you
> considered using ALSA drivers (which support plug and pray) for it? 3) if
> it isn't PnP and/or ALSA isn't an option, are you sure that that it is set
> to those defualts?
>
> I use ALSA on an 1868 with a very simple config. In addition to the generic
> ALSA options for OSS compatibility and such:
Can you send me all the related configuration files for setting this up
please? That is, /etc/isapnp.conf (if anything is in it) and
/etc/conf.modules; maybe other necessary config files. I'd like to give
ALSA a whirl, but since it's not my machine, I'd like to have a relatively
simple install process.
I call myself an expert, but I hate ISA. Why can't all peripherals be all
PCI? Why? Oh, the agony.... :-)
Thanks so much.
- Asheesh.
>
> alias snd-card-0 snd-card-es18xx
> options snd-card-es18xx snd_index=0 snd_id="ES18XX"
>
> This allows for a consistent config across several machines which have the
> card cofigured differently (typically differences in IRQ).
>
>
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