check out soundblaster site, they have linux drivers for some of their pci sound
stuff
www.soundbaster.com i think
Simon Yeo wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I spent the whole day trying to get my PCI128 (soundblaster) card to work.
> I even called the RedHat techsupport to no avail. Here's what I've tried so
> far:
>
> 1) Ran sndconfig, which automatically selects es1371 and adds the entry in
> conf.modules. Sndconfig hangs when it trys to play a sample sound.
>
> 2) Recompiled the kernel (2.2.5-22) with the es1371 support.
>
> In either tries I get the following in dmesg:
>
> es1371: version v0.10 time 09:18:27 Jun 2 1999
> es1371: found adapter at io 0xa400 irq 11
> es1371: features: joystick 0x0
> es1371: codec vendor revision 0
> es1371: codec features none
> es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement
>
> So linux definitely recognizes the card, but I also get the following
> errors:
>
> es1371: dma timed out??
> es1371: dma timed out??
>
> The card just does not work. Any ideas? I'm running RH6.0, Pentium III.
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Simon
