On Sun, 2006-Jul-30 17:52:27 +1000, Ian Smith wrote: >Peter, I don't know if this is likely helpful or not, but my Compaq is a >1500c with an ESS ES1869, reporting (on 5.4-RELEASE): > >sbc0: <ESS ES1869 (Compaq OEM)> at port 0x330-0x331,0x388-0x38b,0x220-0x22f >irq 5 drq 5,1 on isa0 >pcm0: <ESS 18xx DSP> on sbc0 > >I too have in kernel: > > device sound > device snd_sbc # ES1869 (Compaq OEM) > >but after much headscratching it only finally worked after adding: > > snd_ess_load="YES" # this fixed it .. bridge driver for ESS
That worked, thank you. The man pages are not the clearest here. snd_ess(4) implies that all three drivers are needed but snd_sbc(4) has no reference to it - which is what confused me. -- Peter Jeremy
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