Hello Alsa Users - I've discovered a strange situation on a machine I own. It's an old Compaq Presario 4505 that I received as a gift back in 98. It was running Win95 for a long time, but I finally decided to liberate it with Slackware 9.1
The machine was built with the ES1887 Plug and Play Audiodrive, an old ISAPnP legacy card that Alsa can operate via the snd-es18xx driver. The resources for the device are actually set in the BIOS, because as some of you may remember Microsoft wasn't able to completely force plug-and-play BIOS specifications on manufacturers where soundcards were concerned. I know some people will wonder why I'm bothering to work with this machine, but I like it and enjoy the challenge. The problem is this: The kernel (Slackware's standard 2.4.22) doesn't recognize the card when it boots. The command "insmod" fails. And "modprobe" says there's no such device. This happens no matter how carefully I specify the card options and parameters (which are in the BIOS, remember, and there are no resource conflicts). Now here's the mystery: I run alsaconf and tell it to probe for legacy ISAPnP cards (specifically the es18xx) using any available DMAs and IRQs and it fails. BUT when I check with lsmod the module is installed and it works correctly! All the dependencies are available except for the oss compatibility stuff, which I can install from there. My question is: What is alsaconf doing that makes it successful in spite of itself? And how can I reproduce it? I've been going over the alsaconf script and I just can't see the secret. Then again, I'm not especially good at reading shell scripts. I've searched Google and the archives and found occasional references to similar problems with the module, but no explicit solutions. Someone mentioned recompiling the libraries in one thread, but shouldn't a default kernel with a default alsa install be appropriately matched up? And after all, the card does end up working! This is the last little hassle remaining before this machine is 100%, so if anyone can figure out how alsaconf is installing my soundcard I will be eternally grateful. - Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
