Sound Card Problem

chalonec at comcast.net chalonec at comcast.net
Thu May 18 11:49:51 UTC 2006


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Bob Marcan <bob.marcan at interstudio.homeunix.net>
> chalonec at comcast.net wrote:
> > I have a compaq Armada 7800 laptop with a built in ESS 1879 sound card that 
I 
> can't seem to get detected.  I flash the bios, re-installed, and run 
> system-config-sound card.
> > 
> > The compaq diagnostics successfully tests the sound card and it was working 
> under Windows NT and 2000.
> > 
> > Does any know know how to fix this?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Roger
> > 

>alias snd-card-0 snd-es1688
> # ALSA portion
> # ALSA portion
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias snd-card-0 snd-es1688
> # module options should go here
> options snd-es1688 port=0x220 mpu_port=0x388 irq=5 dma8=1
> 
> # OSS/Free portion
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> 
> # 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-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> 
> install snd-es1688 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-es1688 && 
> /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> remove snd-es1688 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; 
> /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-es1688
> 
> 
> Regards, Bob
> 
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Bob,

So I guess I need to install ALSA?  Can you tell me what file the above entries  go in? Also should the above refernces to snd-es1688 be changed to ESS 1879 ?  Sorry I don't know much about this.

Roger




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