I am pulling my hair out trying to get my damn sound working. I have an IBM Thinkpad with an ESS Solo1 soundcard. The default 2.4.8 kernel in Mandrake 8.1 can't make it work. It loads the correct modules (snd-es1938, for instance) but it doesn't DO anything. Instead, my /var/log/messages file fills up with:
Jan 23 13:09:06 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-0 Jan 23 13:09:07 localhost last message repeated 3 times Jan 23 13:09:07 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-2 Jan 23 13:09:07 localhost last message repeated 3 times Jan 23 13:09:08 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-3 Jan 23 13:09:08 localhost last message repeated 3 times Jan 23 13:09:08 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-4 Jan 23 13:09:08 localhost last message repeated 3 times Jan 23 13:09:09 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-5 Jan 23 13:09:09 localhost last message repeated 3 times Jan 23 13:09:09 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-6 Jan 23 13:09:09 localhost last message repeated 3 times Jan 23 13:09:09 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-7 Jan 23 13:09:10 localhost last message repeated 3 times I tried building the VERY broken (it turns out - and it is no longer available in the 17.6 or 17.7 form from rpmfind) Cooker kernel-2.4.17.7-1-1mdk and besides a slew of other problems, it too couldn't get my soundcard to work. I have tried downloading the alsa source and building/installing it separately with and without rebuilding my kernel. I have tried building the 2.4.17 kernel 8 times, each with a different and desperate change in the sound settings...to no avail EVER. All I ever get is the loaded /var/log/messages. The card is also properly identified but there is no valid mixer for it - starting the kde sound mixer merely shows a blank/empty window with "No valid mixer for Solo1" in it. When I rebuilt the 2.4.17 kernel and alsa separately, I got farther in that the sound mixer actually had slider bars but they didn't do squat (see the /var/log/messages). What does it take to get a Solo1 soundcard to work? I had it working GREAT with 2.4.13...I may have to hunt that kernel down and go that way since no other Mandrake kernel seems capable of dealing with this card. Anyone have any words of wisdom for me? _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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