Yeah, it sounds like a cross-use of chips. That's what I meant to say.
They do this to save board space. In a PC you can buy a board containing
modem and sound or motherboard w/ sound, video, modem, SCSI or LAN card
built in. It would be great if they could do this without using crap
parts which often happens. In a laptop YMMV. And if something goes
fritz, new motherboard ==$$.
Good Luck
-----Original Message-----
From: David Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Thanks Ripcrd6. I'll look in the bios and on the ESS site (Toshiba
wouldn't
>help). As far as the info, I got it from Windows 98, settings, control
>panel, system. It looks like a combo sound, games and midi controller or
>something. Thanks Again! David Klein.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>>I have a Satellite 2065, in checking around regarding Toshiba and Linux
>and
>>in Toshiba Europe's main "unsupported but we have to mention it because
we
>>know that we eventually will" page, I might be out of luck on the sound
>card
>>and the modem for now as they list.
>>
>>I did find something on a listserv I'm going to try for the modem
>regarding
>>"statserial" which I'll try.
>>
>>Regarding the sound card there is something weird. It's an ESS that I've
>>not seen before. While standard examples of ESS for laptops (I've had
>them
>>since 1996 in an AST in a TI Travelmate <what a piece of junk that laptop
>>was>)include the 688, 1688 and 1888 this one is odd. It has an "ESS
>Device
>>Manager" at Interrupt Request 11 and a "Maestro DOS Games/FM Devices" at
>>Interrupt Request 05. Strange? They are usually easy, tried and true
>sound
>>cards. In doing sndconfig it can't find it via PnP nor can it be
>manually
>>set.
>
>Could it be a WinSound card? ;-) Looks like it's using some sort of
>software control for the device. Look in your BIOS setup to see if you
can
>change options on this device. Since it is probably impossible to change
>out the sound card (chips), the device may be hard set in the BIOS. At
>the least, Toshiba or ESS may answer emailed questions about the device.
>Ask them what cards the sound card/module/chips are supposed to be
>equivalent to. How did you get the info ("ESS Device Manager" at
Interrupt
>Request 11 and a "Maestro DOS Games/FM Devices" at Interrupt Request 05)?
>was this from Windows95/3.1?
>
>
>>There is are two "DEVICE BUSY" type message that flash across the screen
>>briefly at boot up dealing with the above. Since it is Linux-Mandrake
>6.0,
>>it goes right into one of the window managers that comes with it. I've
>been
>>hunting for some sort of boot log in /etc and in /boot to no avail. How
>do
>>I turn up the error log level boot up messaging file and where is that
>file
>>located?
>>
>>I apologize for being such a novice.
