It's taken me 4 weeks of fairly constant tinkering, adjustment and
experimentation to arrive at the conclusion that it is impossible to
configure my sound card - which seems remarkable as in most ways it is
getting recognised.
Forgive the long post but if anyone has anything constructive to add at least
all the information should be here :o)
Hardware Configuration
ABIT VP6 mother board
Twin Pentium III processors 1000 mhz
512Mb ram
1 x 40 Gb drives
1 x HP CdROM RW
1 x Adaptec SCSI I/F
1 x Travan SCSI tape
1 x GE Force 2MX video card
1 x Creative Blaster 4.1 Digital
Software
Started with a purchase of Mandrake 8.0 Powerpack because I liked 7.2
Currently using 8.2 because it came on the cover of Linux Today and I hoped
it would self-configure the sound.
The Bios in the machine has been tried with plug'n play switched on and off.
It's currently on
Information
Output from dmesg shows no recognition of a sound card at all, though there
have been times during this saga when I have seen es1371 mentioned.
My /etc/modules.conf is :
alias usb-interface usb-uhci
# ALSA native device support
alias char-major-116 snd
options snd snd_major = 116 snd_cards_limit = 1
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371
# OSS/Free setup
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
probeall scsi_hostadapter advansys
alias eth0 3c59x
Output from lsmod is:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
sr_mod 15192 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-seq-midi 3424 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-seq-oss 26112 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 3504 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 43056 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss
snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-pcm-oss 18848 1
snd-pcm-plugin 16144 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-mixer-oss 4704 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
parport_pc 22280 1 (autoclean)
lp 6624 0 (autoclean)
parport 25440 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
snd-card-ens1371 2208 1
snd-ens1371 10624 0 [snd-card-ens1371]
snd-pcm 33824 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1371]
snd-timer 9568 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi 10688 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371]
snd-seq-device 4028 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq
snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 25504 0 [snd-ens1371]
snd-mixer 25416 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371 snd-ac97-codec]
snd 35648 1 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss
snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss
snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device
snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer]
soundcore 4452 7 [snd]
nfsd 70592 8 (autoclean)
lockd 50080 1 (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc 67860 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
af_packet 13896 0 (autoclean)
ipchains 38440 0
usb-uhci 22692 0 (unused)
usbcore 62048 1 [usb-uhci]
3c59x 26536 1 (autoclean)
st 28052 0 (unused)
supermount 62308 2 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 8096 0
rtc 6680 0 (autoclean)
reiserfs 172032 6
advansys 86668 0 (unused)
sd_mod 11512 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 96060 5 [sr_mod st ide-scsi advansys sd_mod]
The relevant line from ps reads:
2737 ? S 0:09 /usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -d -b 16 -s 1 -m
artsmes
Running drakxservices shows that both Alsa and Sound are started at boot and
running. Checking further I find that in Control Centre my board is
recognised as an Ensoniq 5880 Audio PCI using kernel module es1371 (which was
why I used this module when setting up modules.conf) The configuration tool
produces nothing however and neither does sndconfig.
The IRQ is 11 and is shared between advansys, usb and ensoniq
The ports are cc00-cc3f Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI
Interestingly the PCI report states:
00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
Subsystem: Ensoniq: Unknown device 8001
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at cc00 [size=64]
Capabilities <available only to root>
The last line certainly makes me gnash my teeth because I can't see why that
would be the case, however...
I am at the end of my tether. The card appears to be recognised and has a
module available but has defied all my efforts to get a peep out of it.
If there are any suggestions I would be more than willing to hear/try them
out. As I say, after 4 hard weeks I figure I'm out of ideas and patience.
The only thing I can say for certain is that there are plenty of people
writing to a variety of ngs using this chip-set who have a similar problem.
regards
Daryl
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