Hi,
I have installed 6 sb live cards on a redhat 9.0 box.
- the box has had the kernel upgraded to 2.4.26
redhat-config-soundcard runs fine, and reports all 6 cards.
redhat-config-soundcard has an option to play a test sound out the sound
card. This only worked for the first card..
I would appreciate some suggestions on gettting it to go.
Below is a list of my thoughts and meanderings. Apologies for the length.
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Yet, there are no extra devices added to the devices list
- thus, it failed to create /dev/dsp2, /dev/dsp3, dev/dsp4
/dev/sound2 etc..
Ok, examine the python sources of redhat-config-soundcard
no instances of mknod or proc were found
Google. Many helpful suggestions, such as switch to alsa.
Not an option.
Google did suggest to create the requisite devices.
fair enough, redhat-config-soundcard does not appear to have
(in the source code) the ability to create the requisite devices
Manually create (with mknod) /dev/dsp2, /dev/dsp3
/dev/mixer2, /dev/mixer3 etc....
ls -l /dev/ | grep \ 14,
crw------- 1 root root 14, 4 Jan 30 2003 audio
crw------- 1 root root 14, 20 Jan 30 2003 audio1
crw------- 1 root root 14, 7 Jan 30 2003 audioctl
crw------- 1 root root 14, 3 Jan 30 2003 dsp
crw------- 1 root root 14, 19 Jan 30 2003 dsp1
crw------- 1 root root 14, 35 Oct 6 04:41 dsp2
crw------- 1 root root 14, 51 Oct 6 04:41 dsp3
crw------- 1 root root 14, 67 Oct 6 04:42 dsp4
crw------- 1 root root 14, 83 Oct 6 04:42 dsp5
crw------- 1 root root 14, 97 Oct 6 23:18 dsp6
crw------- 1 root root 14, 2 Jan 30 2003 midi00
crw------- 1 root root 14, 18 Jan 30 2003 midi01
crw------- 1 root root 14, 34 Jan 30 2003 midi02
crw------- 1 root root 14, 50 Jan 30 2003 midi03
crw------- 1 root root 14, 0 Jan 30 2003 mixer
crw------- 1 root root 14, 16 Jan 30 2003 mixer1
crw------- 1 root root 14, 32 Oct 6 17:59 mixer2
crw------- 1 root root 14, 48 Oct 6 17:59 mixer3
crw------- 1 root root 14, 64 Oct 6 18:00 mixer4
crw------- 1 root root 14, 80 Oct 6 23:18 mixer5
crw------- 1 root root 14, 96 Oct 6 23:18 mixer6
crw------- 1 root root 14, 17 Jan 30 2003 patmgr0
crw------- 1 root root 14, 33 Jan 30 2003 patmgr1
crw------- 1 root root 14, 1 Jan 30 2003 sequencer
crw------- 1 root root 14, 8 Jan 30 2003 sequencer2
crw------- 1 root root 14, 6 Jan 30 2003 sndstat
however, my code to examine all the available sound devices does not work.
It found just 5 devices, not 6.
well, examine source for the driver, es1371.c
#define NR_DEVICES 5
Change this, recompile and install kernel..
Nope - did not help
kernel messages that may be of interest::
Tests on sound working are a little hard. That box is in America.
Although, I have a report that redhat-config-soundcard play test sound
does play sound fine for the first card, but not the others...
Kernel log messages::
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:05.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 01:02.0
es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x04
es1371: found es1371 rev 4 at io 0xd080 irq 9
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7608 (SigmaTel STAC9708)
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 01:04.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:1f.3
es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x04
es1371: found es1371 rev 4 at io 0xd400 irq 3
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7608 (SigmaTel STAC9708)
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 01:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:1d.1
es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x04
es1371: found es1371 rev 4 at io 0xd480 irq 5
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7608 (SigmaTel STAC9708)
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 01:05.0
es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x04
es1371: found es1371 rev 4 at io 0xd800 irq 9
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7608 (SigmaTel STAC9708)
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 01:01.0
es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x04
es1371: found es1371 rev 4 at io 0xd880 irq 11
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
es1371: cannot register misc device
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 01:00.0
es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x04
es1371: found es1371 rev 4 at io 0xdc00 irq 11
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
es1371: cannot register misc device
See - the last two card did not go in properly. And, they were
all created as character devices. (See the sound dev listing)
Try another box.
just put 2 SB16 cards into a redhat 9 box with 2.4.26 kernel.
Create a couple of extra /dev entries for the new cards.
Many mesages about
Can't locate module sound-service-0-0
Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
lspci -n - have a look at the device id numbers.
Ahh, 1274 - ensoniq.
5880 is handled by the es1371 driver - there is a comment to
explicitely turn on the AC97 if we are a 5880.
Gack - anyone with suggestions on where to look next ?
Derek.
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