OK things move on - with a degree of embarrassment :o/
Following on from some of Larry Swords comments I ran the card down to the
European web site (makes sense, I bought the card in Scotland). I had the
opportunity here to d/l a manual. Query, if there is a manual available why
wasn't it in the box? Maybe it was but on the windows disk. Hmmmmmmm
Anyway, d/l the manual and have a glance through.
Well, that's certainly a better set-up diagram than the leaflet - let's see
if everything is as per... well, the cd line is to the right place tick one.
The line in is.... Oh sh&t, check back with the leaflet... degree of
confusion, check with the manual, none at all. Replace line out one socket
up.
Run Control Centre and sound card configuration and a LOUID american voice
tells me that my card is configured! A quick run of a cd and it plays. Oh
Joy.
Further check shows that /etc/modules.conf is as per:
alias usb-interface usb-uhci
# ALSA native device support
options snd snd_major = 116 snd_cards_limit = 1
#OSS/Free setup
probeall scsi_hostadapter advansys
alias eth0 3c59x
alias sound-slot-0 es1371
Certainly seems a bit less elaborate than before.
OK another test, shutdown and reboot.
Dmesg now shows:
es1371: version v0.30 time 01:49:49 Mar 15 2002
es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x02
es1371: found es1371 rev 2 at io 0xcc00 irq 11
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7608 (SigmaTel STAC9708)
plus an illegal CDROM request
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
Furthermore there is no swelling chord when the KDE screen opens and there is
an error message:
Sound server fatal error:
cpu overload, aborting
It seems that artsd is failing to connect somewhere. A further test shows
that noatun refuses to run HOWEVER calling up KDE Sound Server, restarting
the server appears to work and noatun can now run (though I have to kill
artsd to get Real video running again (sheesh)
Sooooooooooo, thanks for all the help and comments so far and ummmm, where
might I go from here?
regards
Daryl
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