Unfortunately no. It sets things like the port for the modem UART, XON/XOFF
etc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ripcrd6
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 1:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Toshiba Satellite 2065 and Sound
I'm still a newbie myself, but will the setserial command work for the
soundcard as well?
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: David Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Ripcrd6,
>
>In investigating here's what I found out.
>
>ESS's newest chip is a hybrid one. PCI with IRQ11 as the controller and
IRQ5
>as the sound card. It's not the usual "ESS XXX" chain name, but rather
>their new branding is called "Maestro". I was able to read the messages
>and look in some sort of PCI file in the file system and find that Linux
>doesn't get the IRQ11 bit and while ESS says that Maestro is Soundblaster
>and Soundblaster Pro compatible it still isn't loading.
>
>ESS doesn't display any Linux drivers and points towards "your laptop
>provider" Toshiba - so far not "supporting Linux officially".
>
>Between this and the modem issues (I've even gotten into setserial and
>modemtool) I have to reload the whole system again b/c hang up problems.
>It's led to the main mandrake screen (the motif one where you chose if you
>want KDE, Gnome, the other windows managers, failsafe etc.) to disappear.
>I've seen two core dump icon's in the root directory but can't figure out
>which editor will allow me to read the dump.
>
>I was up until 3 AM on this stuff. Really frustrating. But I got to make
>this work! I have an AMD and wish to help break the WINTEL grip on the
>computer world Ripcrd6!
>
>Dave Klein.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>Yeah, it sounds like a cross-use of chips. That's what I meant to say.
>>They do this to save board space. In a PC you can buy a board containing
>>modem and sound or motherboard w/ sound, video, modem, SCSI or LAN card
>>built in. It would be great if they could do this without using crap
>>parts which often happens. In a laptop YMMV. And if something goes
>>fritz, new motherboard ==$$.
>>Good Luck
