On Wednesday 21 July 2004 18:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
The above says you are using OSS now. You can't use ALSA until the OSS
modules are removed.
> 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.
HTH,
-Frans
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