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From: David Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I have a Satellite 2065, in checking around regarding Toshiba and Linux
and
>in Toshiba Europe's main "unsupported but we have to mention it because we
>know that we eventually will" page, I might be out of luck on the sound
card
>and the modem for now as they list.
>
>I did find something on a listserv I'm going to try for the modem
regarding
>"statserial" which I'll try.
>
>Regarding the sound card there is something weird. It's an ESS that I've
>not seen before. While standard examples of ESS for laptops (I've had
them
>since 1996 in an AST in a TI Travelmate <what a piece of junk that laptop
>was>)include the 688, 1688 and 1888 this one is odd. It has an "ESS
Device
>Manager" at Interrupt Request 11 and a "Maestro DOS Games/FM Devices" at
>Interrupt Request 05. Strange? They are usually easy, tried and true
sound
>cards. In doing sndconfig it can't find it via PnP nor can it be
manually
>set.
Could it be a WinSound card? ;-) Looks like it's using some sort of
software control for the device. Look in your BIOS setup to see if you can
change options on this device. Since it is probably impossible to change
out the sound card (chips), the device may be hard set in the BIOS. At
the least, Toshiba or ESS may answer emailed questions about the device.
Ask them what cards the sound card/module/chips are supposed to be
equivalent to. How did you get the info ("ESS Device Manager" at Interrupt
Request 11 and a "Maestro DOS Games/FM Devices" at Interrupt Request 05)?
was this from Windows95/3.1?
>There is are two "DEVICE BUSY" type message that flash across the screen
>briefly at boot up dealing with the above. Since it is Linux-Mandrake
6.0,
>it goes right into one of the window managers that comes with it. I've
been
>hunting for some sort of boot log in /etc and in /boot to no avail. How
do
>I turn up the error log level boot up messaging file and where is that
file
>located?
>
>I apologize for being such a novice.
