On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 16:49, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > What do you mean by 'cut-up sound'? Low volume sound or no sound at all?
There is sound, as loud as I want it, but in half-second bursts, if you see what I mean. I.e. the song plays, I can listen to it from start to finish if I'm feeling masochistic, but it's as if some DJ with a neuro-motor disease was trying to scratch the record from the back of a pick-up on a bumpy road, ya know? > > Is it an ISA card? If so, I had to do some manual work to get the > drivers loaded the first time. > The card is a sound chip 16 Bit Compaq PremierSound on the motherboard (I'm on a Compaq Armada 1750 laptop). I have a printout from a German Suse page (sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/laptop_daten_compaq_armada-1750.html) which says that the soundcard is detected as a "Generic ESS ES1688 base soundcard or motherboard" and that it is "Supported by ALSA Version 0.4.2. ALSA detects the sound chip as a ESS Audio Drive ES1688". The laptop quick specs say it is a "Sound Blaster Pro-compatible with 16-bit stereo Compaq Premier Sound". All this to say that I don't really know what an ISA card is :\ The required module seems to be there: #find /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/ -name *1688* /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/sound/isa/es1688 /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/sound/isa/es1688/snd-es1688-lib.ko.gz /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/sound/isa/es1688/snd-es1688.ko.gz But is it loaded? I don't understand this: # lsmod Module Size Used by ... sound 78956 6 opl3,sb_lib,uart401 soundcore 9248 8 sb_lib,sound ... > I'd have a look at the /var/log/syslog. First check if the board is > recognized by the kernel. I don't see anything which would obviously be the card. > Then check the lines where the system tries to > start the sound system, see what errors it prints there (just search for > 'sound' or 'ALSA' in syslog). No mention of ALSA in /var/log/syslog. When I search there for "sound" I get a load of greek-to-me: # less /var/log/syslog | grep sound Jul 21 14:27:12 laptop modprobe: FATAL: Module sound-slot-0 not found. Jul 21 14:29:53 laptop kernel: EIP is at __crc_sound_open_dma+0x556069/0x55f7f8 [sound] Jul 21 14:29:53 laptop kernel: [__crc_fb_unregister_client+6189798/6829661] __crc_register_sound_special+0x211cdfd7/0x211ce199 [soundcore] Jul 21 14:29:53 laptop kernel: [<cc956614>] __crc_register_sound_special+0x211cdfd7/0x211ce199 [soundcore] Jul 21 14:55:52 laptop kernel: EIP is at __crc_sound_open_dma+0x556069/0x55f7f8 [sound] Jul 21 14:55:52 laptop kernel: [__crc_fb_unregister_client+6189798/6829661] __crc_register_sound_special+0x211cdfd7/0x211ce199 [soundcore] Jul 21 14:55:52 laptop kernel: [<cc956614>] __crc_register_sound_special+0x211cdfd7/0x211ce199 [soundcore] Jul 21 14:57:45 laptop kernel: EIP is at __crc_sound_open_dma+0x556069/0x55f7f8 [sound] Jul 21 14:57:45 laptop kernel: [__crc_fb_unregister_client+6189798/6829661] __crc_register_sound_special+0x211cdfd7/0x211ce199 [soundcore] Jul 21 14:57:45 laptop kernel: [<cc956614>] __crc_register_sound_special+0x211cdfd7/0x211ce199 [soundcore] > > Do you know which driver was loaded in 9.0. If so, you could try to load > it manually with modprobe and see what errors you get. No, unfortunately I don't, but I suppose the above mentioned es1688 should work, right? But I still don't know why ALSA isn't running, or how to get it to run, or even if I really need it. Thanks a lot for helping me. GermÃn.
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