On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, The Eye wrote:
> I have got (for free) this old notebook, a Toshiba Satellite 200CDS,
> which still works very fine. I installed linux on it and wanted to
> proceed to configure the soundcard as I had many times before on other
> computers using alsa ..
>
> My information was that the thing had an ess688 chip, using io=0x220,
> irq=7, dma=1. So I compiled the es1688 driver, which, according to the
> soundcard matrix, is the right one for this chip. settings in
> modules.conf reflect the above information. But /etc/init.d/alsasound
> start just tells me there is no such device present.
>
> Since I grew a little frustrated by this I tried the 2.4.24 kernel OSS
> driver instead, which is the generic sb driver in this case.
>
> Running modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 produces no error, syslog shows
> SB 3.01 detected OK (220)
> ESS chip ES688 detected
> and sound comes out of the speaker if I attempt to play something.
>
> Still, I would be happier with alsa, so I am wondering why it doesn't
> work.
I too. Please, make a bug report. Before it, compile driver with
'--with-debug=detect' (it's configure option) and post related information
from /var/log/messages.
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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