OK things move on - with a degree of embarrassment :o/ Following on from some of Larry Swords comments I ran the card down to the European web site (makes sense, I bought the card in Scotland). I had the opportunity here to d/l a manual. Query, if there is a manual available why wasn't it in the box? Maybe it was but on the windows disk. Hmmmmmmm
Anyway, d/l the manual and have a glance through. Well, that's certainly a better set-up diagram than the leaflet - let's see if everything is as per... well, the cd line is to the right place tick one. The line in is.... Oh sh&t, check back with the leaflet... degree of confusion, check with the manual, none at all. Replace line out one socket up. Run Control Centre and sound card configuration and a LOUID american voice tells me that my card is configured! A quick run of a cd and it plays. Oh Joy. Further check shows that /etc/modules.conf is as per: alias usb-interface usb-uhci # ALSA native device support options snd snd_major = 116 snd_cards_limit = 1 #OSS/Free setup probeall scsi_hostadapter advansys alias eth0 3c59x alias sound-slot-0 es1371 Certainly seems a bit less elaborate than before. OK another test, shutdown and reboot. Dmesg now shows: es1371: version v0.30 time 01:49:49 Mar 15 2002 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x02 es1371: found es1371 rev 2 at io 0xcc00 irq 11 es1371: features: joystick 0x0 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7608 (SigmaTel STAC9708) plus an illegal CDROM request sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. Furthermore there is no swelling chord when the KDE screen opens and there is an error message: Sound server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting It seems that artsd is failing to connect somewhere. A further test shows that noatun refuses to run HOWEVER calling up KDE Sound Server, restarting the server appears to work and noatun can now run (though I have to kill artsd to get Real video running again (sheesh) Sooooooooooo, thanks for all the help and comments so far and ummmm, where might I go from here? regards Daryl -- "Pascal is Pascal is Pascal is dog meat." -- M. Devine and P. Larson, Computer Science 340
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