Ripcrd6,
In investigating here's what I found out.
ESS's newest chip is a hybrid one. PCI with IRQ11 as the controller and IRQ5
as the sound card. It's not the usual "ESS XXX" chain name, but rather
their new branding is called "Maestro". I was able to read the messages
and look in some sort of PCI file in the file system and find that Linux
doesn't get the IRQ11 bit and while ESS says that Maestro is Soundblaster
and Soundblaster Pro compatible it still isn't loading.
ESS doesn't display any Linux drivers and points towards "your laptop
provider" Toshiba - so far not "supporting Linux officially".
Between this and the modem issues (I've even gotten into setserial and
modemtool) I have to reload the whole system again b/c hang up problems.
It's led to the main mandrake screen (the motif one where you chose if you
want KDE, Gnome, the other windows managers, failsafe etc.) to disappear.
I've seen two core dump icon's in the root directory but can't figure out
which editor will allow me to read the dump.
I was up until 3 AM on this stuff. Really frustrating. But I got to make
this work! I have an AMD and wish to help break the WINTEL grip on the
computer world Ripcrd6!
Dave Klein.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ripcrd6
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 3:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Toshiba Satellite 2065 and Sound
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.
