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On 6 Sep 00, at 23:12, Sarang Lakare wrote:
> > Under Windows, my sound board is identified as a "Sound Blaster AudioPCI
> > 128".
>
> I ahve the same card.. and it didn't work with 7.0 but worked fine with 7.1
> and didn't had to use alsa.. what version of mandrake are u using?
>
7.0. It works fine on my system, and has done so ever since I installed
Mandrake.
> >
> > I notice that there is a line "alias snd es-1378" already in the
> > conf.modules file, which suggests that Mandrake decided that I had an
> > Ensoniq 1371 when it first booted. The sound card seems to work fine under
> > both Windoze and Mandrake.
>
> then why do u need alsa?.. Under the default mandrake system, teh driver
Because I want to be able to record the audio, and everything I've read
says that I need either ASLA or paudio to make this work. I found the
instructions for paudio even more incomprehensible than the ones for ALSA,
so I'm trying the latter.
> >
> > Anyway, I did my best to follow the rather peculiar documentation in the
> > ALSA driver package, but it wasn't at all clear what I should call the
> > card. I decided that ens-1371 was probably the best bet. But when I issue
> you don't decide what to call the driver.. the driver names are
> predefined.. the README at the end tells u that.. also alsa-project.org
> will has ens1371 as the driver name in front of ur'e card!
>
so it's "ens1371", not "ens-1371". Strange, because the file that ALSA
generated has the hyphen in the name.
> > the "modprobe snd-card-ens1371" command after editing conf.modules, I'm
> > told that the device "snd" is already in use. Removing the "alias snd
>
> first of all, the entry in conf.modules and u're doing modprobe are not
> related. The conf.modules is so taht the next time u boot, the driver will
> be loaded automatically. The reason its saying snd already in use is that u
> have a driver already installed. the command lsmod will give u the list of
> modules (drivers) loaded.. remove all drivers related to snd.. it'll mostly
> be only es-1378.. then say
> modprobe ens1371 then you need to load 2 more drivers for OSS compatibility
> (OSS is the default sound system which comes with linux.. alsa is
> relatively new and it'll be the default in development kernel 2.5 onwards)
>
OK. This is the important information that is lacking from the ALSA
documentation. I'm not sure how to remove a driver without rebooting, but I
guess I'll see if one of my Linux books tells me how to do that. And I can
always reboot :-)
> I dont' remember the two other modules that u need to load.. but the names
> are somethign like snd-oss-mixer and snd-oss-something.. its there in the
> README file. once you load these 3 modules (drivers) u'll have alsa
> working!.. and I guess modprobe automatically updates u're conf.modules
> file..
>
Yes, there are several snd-oss-xxx modules, and I've put them in the
conf.modules file.
> > es1371" line from conf.modules made no difference. (Maybe I should have
> > rebooted??? Or is that Windows whispering evil thoughts in my ear?)
> >
> no no.. u never need to reboot in linux!..
>
> > Does anyone have a conf.modules file correctly configured to use ALSA with
> > either a Sound Blaster AudioPCI 128 or an Ensoniq 1371 card??
> Yup! as i said i have the exact same card.. the problem is that the company
> keeps changing somehting in the h/w and dosn't tell the open-source
> people.. so sometimes the default driver dosn't work!
>
> >
> > (FWIW, I notice that under Windows, the Sound Blaster AudioPCI 128 mixer is
> > called "Ensoniq mixer" in the registry, so I strongly suspect that the two
> > terms are synonyms.)
>
> Sound Blaster bought Ensoniq i guess.. PCI 128 was an Ensonique product now
> sold under the brand name of sound blaster.. it still uses the ensoniq
> chip!
>
> -sarang
>
Thanks v. much for the help. I expect I can get things working from this
point onwards.
Doc Evans
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