On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:55:51 +0100
Daryl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
Could you post an URL for this 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
You really have just one soundcard and no onboard sound?
Creative Blaster 4.1 Digital sounds more like a emu10k1 card than an
Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI card as reported by 'lspci -v'.But then you have
the ALSA module snd-card-ens1371 loaded.... Confusing ('Creative ;) ')
naming by Creative Labs?
> 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
HTH, a very confused :)
-Frans
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