murzilla Posted August 17, 2004 Report Share Posted August 17, 2004 Well Just want to split my problem in two parts. Here is first part Hi there! Just installed MDK 10.0 on old Compaq DeskPro EN (PII/333) with ESS1868 on-board audio card. During installation I was prompted to run "sndconfig" for sound card. Installation was fine. Run "sndconfig" as root,audio card was not detected, select ESS1868 from list. All default values (IRQ=5,DMA=0,I/O=220) were OK for my card. I checked HardDrake - no sound card is detected! Somehow some strange noise is coming from PC speakers. So question #1 is - is it OK for Linux that ISA PnP card is not on a list in HardDrake? Then I checked "dmesg" "...... Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found ........ sb: Init: Starting Probe... sb: Probing legacy card with io=220, irq=7, dma=1, dma16=5 SB 3.01 detected OK (220) ESS chip ES1869 detected sb: Interrupt test on IRQ7 failed - Probable IRQ conflict sb: Turning on MPU sb: Init: Done " Question #2 - Why it tries to check with "io=220, irq=7, dma=1, dma16=5" when in sndconfig I put other parameters? Pls answer only my questions - I already read Sound HOWTO. :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted August 18, 2004 Report Share Posted August 18, 2004 Well.. Harddrake is basically a glorified version of lspci command (which is basically a way to detect PCI device). Since you have to use sndconfig, that means that the card counts as ISA card (as you have found out), so of course it won't count as a PCI device :) Anyway, if it works when using sndconfig, then just accept it. I usually do :) For the second question, I guess that's because irq=7 and dma=1 is usually the default configuration for that type of sound card, so when booting up and detecting hardware configuration, it tried that configuration first. It wasn't until later during bootup process when the driver is loaded with your configuration when it works. I mean your soundcard does work right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murzilla Posted August 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2004 Thanks a lot for info on HardDrake.Now it is clear. Concerning sound card - it is not working at all. As I mentioned "sndconfig" sets default parameters for my card. These parameters are OK (I checked in Windows) I can hear a test sound in "sndconfig" - but only first part "Hello" - and that's all. In KDE/Look'n'feel/Sound when I press Test sound button I hear nothing. Some people advise to install alsa-mixer did not work. This command wrote something like " no such device" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted August 19, 2004 Report Share Posted August 19, 2004 Hmm.. it seems that there is an ALSA driver for ess 18xx chipset. Open a console, su to root and type this command draksound Then pick your driver manually (snd-es18xx). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murzilla Posted August 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2004 (edited) Hmm.. it seems that there is an ALSA driver for ess 18xx chipset. Open a console, su to root and type this command draksound Then pick your driver manually (snd-es18xx). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Here is a short list of what I've done. 1.As you told me I ran DrakSound. It told me - "no sound device, pls run alsaconf or sndconfig" 2.As I once used "sndconfig" I decided to run "alsaconf". "su" - "alsaconf" - not found!!! 3.Checked installed packages - "alsa-utils" are not installed. :o 4.Run urpmi alsa-utils..... It said "You need pciutils" Run urpmi pciutils.... 5.Finally run alsaconf It did not detect ESS1869 it detects ESS1688.Well, let it be. 6.Run Audacity.Load WAV file with voice message - and hear complete bullshit! Instead of voice PC plays strange frequencies which AM and FM modulated! 7.Press stop button in Audacity - it stops responding!!!! After that any attempt to play any sound results in error message - device is busy or no sound device or wrong device.!!! Still I have no similar behaviour of system whatever I tried.Everytime to the same action it reacts with differen reaction - I am talking only about sound problem on my PC! Other stuff (video, network, drives) works fine. Thanks a lot again for you help. Anyway, I give up.I it takes too much time - I can not afford to devote 24h per day for reading HOWTOs, manuals, forums. Edited August 20, 2004 by murzilla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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