On 7 Oct 2001, Tom Parker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get good sound performance from the on motherboard ess1869 chip
> in my sis5598 system. The standard kernel sb driver works, but using
> mpg123 distortion and skipping is really cronic whenever there is other
> activity on the box. I originally had a pentium 100 in the machine, and I put
> a pentium 200 in, and the problems seemed to get worse. A Sound Blaster 16
> card doesn't suffer from these problems so badly, and turning off dma on the
> ide controller eliminates them completely.
>
> I'm trying to get the alsa drivers to work, I'm hopeing that they will provide
> better performance. However I can't get the module to install:
>
> mpfree:/etc# isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
> Board 1 has Identity d7 ff ff ff ff 03 00 73 16: ESS0003 Serial No -1
> [checksum d7]
> ESS0003/-1[1]{ESS ES1869 Plug and Play AudioDrive}: Ports 0x240 0x388 0x300;
> IRQ7 DMA0 DMA3 --- Enabled OK
> ESS0003/-1[2]{ESS ES1869 Plug and Play AudioDrive}: Port 0x200; --- Enabled OK
>
> I get this in the syslog (dates snipped for clarity)
>
> kernel: snd: [0x240] ESS1869 chip found
> kernel: snd: requested ports 0x0-0x7 busy
> kernel: snd: ports (0x0-0x7) for ES18xx - CTRL are already used
> kernel: snd: MAGIC==0x0: es18xx.c: 1115 [snd_es18xx_free]
> kernel: snd: ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard #1 not found at 0x240 or device
> busy
> kernel: snd: ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard #2 not found or device busy
>
> What is going on here? I'm guessing that the "requested ports 0x0-0x7 busy"
> line is relative to the base address? If they aren't then it's obviously
> conflicting with dma1:
Can you send me the contents of /proc/isapnp file?
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
SuSE Linux http://www.suse.com
ALSA project http://www.alsa-project.org
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