Qchem Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 Hi, this is stemed from a posts in everything Linux but I've finally given up and dicided I need some help. My box has a built in CT5880 which is basically a rebadged ens1371 sound chip (which is similar to a SoundBlaster 128 PCI). After a bit of googling I've found that the ALSA driver snd-ens1371 won't work and instead I need snd-card-ens1371. Unfortunately this driver isn't included in the Mandrake kernel so I'll need to try and add it - does anyone have any experience of adding extra alsa drivers to those supplied within the kernel?? Any tips or advice gratefully recieved!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted October 19, 2003 Report Share Posted October 19, 2003 Strange, the ALSA official page suggests the module 'snd-ens1371'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 19, 2003 Report Share Posted October 19, 2003 I thought the snd-card-xxx naming was done away with. That now it's just OSS and alsa (snd-xxx). I guess you're saying this because it's onboard, rt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted October 20, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2003 I was beginning to come to the conclusion that I'd come across an old posting on google - it seems that snd-ens1371 should work, but it doesn't. I've checked the mixer settings and whilst it was originally muted it isn't anymore. I've never used ALSA before so I'm at a bit of a loss as to whats going wrong - the only sound I can get is throught the PC speaker!! I've tried playing CD's through XMMS, testing various KDE / GNOME event sounds and tuxracer but all were silent. Any ideas?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 20, 2003 Report Share Posted October 20, 2003 have you ran harddrake's config tool for the card? Post the output of lsmod. Is alsa and sound set to run at boot in MCC>System>DrakXServices? At boot, does alsa claim to be starting? Is alsa-utils installed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted October 20, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2003 >have you ran harddrake's config tool for the card? yep >Post the output of lsmod. It's my home box so I can't at the moment, snd-ens1371 is certainly there. >Is alsa and sound set to run at boot in MCC>System>DrakXServices? yep >At boot, does alsa claim to be starting? yep, it produces an [ok] too >Is alsa-utils installed? Not sure, if not I'll install it tonight. Thanks for the help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 20, 2003 Report Share Posted October 20, 2003 Also, IF kde, make sure you've told the sound server to start. Gnome?....not necessary 8) ....but then tell xmms to use alsa (you'll need xmms-alsa). Running gnome sound (esd) always gave me probs with alsa. I d/k if sound events work without enabling esd....I never tried. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 1) the ALSA drivers come with alsa 2) I just load the driver, i have it added to my /etc/modules snd-ens1370 Or to load it manually: insmod snd-ens1370 3) As always: check the volume: use 'alsamixer' at the command line Make sure its not muted, if it is it will have an 'MM' at the top. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted October 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 sorry for the lateness of this reply, I've since installed alsa-utils (and made sure the sound is not muted) and xmms-alsa (and told xmms to use it). Still no joy, can't get a peep out of it!! The output of lsmod is Module Size Used by Tainted: P snd-seq-midi 5056 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss 32000 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 6080 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 42544 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss 43652 0 snd-mixer-oss 14200 1 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-ens1371 15752 1 snd-rawmidi 17760 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371] snd-seq-device 5832 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi]snd-pcm 79588 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-ens1371] snd-page-alloc 9044 0 [snd-pcm] snd-timer 18436 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] gameport 3268 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-ac97-codec 45720 0 [snd-ens1371] snd 41380 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371 snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec] soundcore 6340 0 [snd] isofs 28148 1 (autoclean) udf 88736 0 (autoclean) ppp_deflate 4472 0 (autoclean) bsd_comp 5400 0 (autoclean) lp 8160 0 parport_pc 25544 1 parport 34472 1 [lp parport_pc] agpgart 48292 3 (autoclean) nvidia 1765440 11 (autoclean) ipt_TOS 1592 12 (autoclean) ipt_REJECT 3960 4 (autoclean) ipt_LOG 4184 7 (autoclean) ipt_state 1080 14 (autoclean) ipt_multiport 1176 0 (autoclean) ipt_conntrack 1560 32 (autoclean) iptable_filter 2316 1 (autoclean) iptable_mangle 2712 1 (autoclean) iptable_nat 20814 0 (autoclean) (unused) ip_conntrack 26468 3 (autoclean) [ipt_state ipt_conntrack iptable_nat] ip_tables 15072 11 [ipt_TOS ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG ipt_state ipt_multiport ipt_conntrack iptable_filter iptable_mangle iptable_nat] ppp_async 9312 1 ppp_generic 24292 3 [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async] slhc 6564 0 [ppp_generic] af_packet 14856 0 (autoclean) sr_mod 19384 2 (autoclean) floppy 55932 0 8139too 17384 1 (autoclean) mii 3864 0 (autoclean) [8139too] nls_iso8859-15 4060 2 (autoclean) nls_cp850 4284 1 (autoclean) vfat 11820 1 (autoclean) fat 38040 0 (autoclean) [vfat] supermount 84032 2 (autoclean) keybdev 2756 0 (unused) mousedev 5428 0 (unused) hid 24164 0 (unused) input 5696 0 [keybdev mousedev hid] ide-cd 33956 0 cdrom 32608 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] ide-scsi 11376 1 scsi_mod 106176 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi] usb-uhci 25136 0 (unused) usbcore 74988 1 [hid usb-uhci] rtc 9004 0 (autoclean) ext3 60048 3 jbd 39264 3 [ext3] Any help appreciated!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurking Posted November 8, 2003 Report Share Posted November 8, 2003 (edited) Hi Qchem, I had problems with ensonic OB sound too and I found that the default driver for my install was es1371. I had problems so I tried the snd-ens1371 and it worked. My point is, you say snd-ens1371 doesn't work, have you tried es1371 ? I know this post is a bit late, but..... Edited November 8, 2003 by arthurking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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