Daryl Johnson wrote: >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 > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Yep, when you buy on the leading edge you soon know what it is to be sliding down the razor blade of life. There is typically a gap of 3-6 months for linux to catch up and support new hardware because manufacturers rarely prioritize linux drivers and sometimes are very tight-lipped about tech info.
But for THAT card I have seen unfavorable reports even with some versaions of Windows. Civileme
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