Re: [TCLUG:9393] Sound Woes

[Scott Dier - dieman <dieman@ringworld.org>]

Attempt this:
(as root)

insmod es1371

If it works, setup (however its done in your dist) for that module to
automagically reload.

On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Philip C Mendelsohn wrote:

> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 18:24:40 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070@tc.umn.edu>
> Reply-To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:9393] Sound Woes
> 
> On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Brian Strassman wrote:
> 
> > Just did an install of Mandrake 6.1 on my home system, which is sporting
> > a
> > Creative Labs SB PCI128 as its soundcard.  When I run sndconfig, it
> > probes and
> > finds an ES1371 audio device (which AFAIK is the correct device for a
> > SB128),
> > however, sndconfig then hangs when attempting to play the test sound and
> > I am
> > forced to kill out of it.  Looking at /proc/pci shows that the sound
> > card is
> > supposedly there, but /dev/sndstat reports "No such device".  When I try
> > to manually
> > set up the soundcard using pnpdump and isapnp, pnpdump reports "no
> > boards found".
> > Does anyone have any advice on how I should proceed?
> 
> It's not big advice or necessarily good advice, but I found that you might
> want to really make sure that the hardware on your sound card agrees with
> what the system says it finds.  Sometimes "close enough" works, but there
> are other times where two sister chips in a manufacturer's line do *not*
> talk to the drivers the same way.
> 
> For free, you can try the OSS drivers.  If they do the trick, they want
> $20 to use them forever, but I thought it was worth it.  I'd think the SB
> card would be supported, but I guess you never know.
> 
> Best,
> Phil
> 
> -- 
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>      but it can get complicated."
>                         --R.Drabek
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