I have no sound on my machine either.
I had Red Hat on the machine and the sound worked.
Decided to try Mandrake, and no sound. I like Mandrake better, except for my
sound problem.
SIS7018 Onboard Sound Card
Quoting Frans Ketelaars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:55:51 +0100
> Daryl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > It's taken me 4 weeks of fairly constant tinkering, adjustment and
> > experimentation to arrive at the conclusion that it is impossible to
>
> > configure my sound card - which seems remarkable as in most ways it is
>
> > getting recognised.
> >
> > Forgive the long post but if anyone has anything constructive to add
> at least
> > all the information should be here :o)
>
> :)
>
> > Hardware Configuration
> >
> > ABIT VP6 mother board
>
> Could you post an URL for this board?
>
> > Twin Pentium III processors 1000 mhz
> > 512Mb ram
> > 1 x 40 Gb drives
> > 1 x HP CdROM RW
> > 1 x Adaptec SCSI I/F
> > 1 x Travan SCSI tape
> > 1 x GE Force 2MX video card
> > 1 x Creative Blaster 4.1 Digital
>
> You really have just one soundcard and no onboard sound?
> Creative Blaster 4.1 Digital sounds more like a emu10k1 card than an
> Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI card as reported by 'lspci -v'.But then you have
> the ALSA module snd-card-ens1371 loaded.... Confusing ('Creative ;) ')
> naming by Creative Labs?
>
> > Software
> >
> > Started with a purchase of Mandrake 8.0 Powerpack because I liked
> 7.2
> > Currently using 8.2 because it came on the cover of Linux Today and I
> hoped
> > it would self-configure the sound.
> >
> > The Bios in the machine has been tried with plug'n play switched on
> and off.
> > It's currently on
> >
> > Information
> >
> > Output from dmesg shows no recognition of a sound card at all, though
> there
> > have been times during this saga when I have seen es1371 mentioned.
> >
> > My /etc/modules.conf is :
> >
> > alias usb-interface usb-uhci
> >
> > # ALSA native device support
> > alias char-major-116 snd
> > options snd snd_major = 116 snd_cards_limit = 1
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371
> >
> > # OSS/Free setup
> > alias char-major-14 soundcore
> > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> > alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> >
> > probeall scsi_hostadapter advansys
> > alias eth0 3c59x
> >
> > Output from lsmod is:
> >
> > Module Size Used by Not tainted
> > sr_mod 15192 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> > snd-seq-midi 3424 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> > snd-seq-oss 26112 0 (unused)
> > snd-seq-midi-event 3504 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss]
> > snd-seq 43056 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss
> > snd-seq-midi-event]
> > snd-pcm-oss 18848 1
> > snd-pcm-plugin 16144 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
> > snd-mixer-oss 4704 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
> > parport_pc 22280 1 (autoclean)
> > lp 6624 0 (autoclean)
> > parport 25440 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
> > snd-card-ens1371 2208 1
> > snd-ens1371 10624 0 [snd-card-ens1371]
> > snd-pcm 33824 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin
> snd-ens1371]
> > snd-timer 9568 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
> > snd-rawmidi 10688 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371]
> > snd-seq-device 4028 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq
> > snd-rawmidi]
> > snd-ac97-codec 25504 0 [snd-ens1371]
> > snd-mixer 25416 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371
> snd-ac97-codec]
> > snd 35648 1 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss
> > snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss
> > snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi
> snd-seq-device
> > snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer]
> > soundcore 4452 7 [snd]
> > nfsd 70592 8 (autoclean)
> > lockd 50080 1 (autoclean) [nfsd]
> > sunrpc 67860 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
> > af_packet 13896 0 (autoclean)
> > ipchains 38440 0
> > usb-uhci 22692 0 (unused)
> > usbcore 62048 1 [usb-uhci]
> > 3c59x 26536 1 (autoclean)
> > st 28052 0 (unused)
> > supermount 62308 2 (autoclean)
> > ide-scsi 8096 0
> > rtc 6680 0 (autoclean)
> > reiserfs 172032 6
> > advansys 86668 0 (unused)
> > sd_mod 11512 0 (unused)
> > scsi_mod 96060 5 [sr_mod st ide-scsi advansys
> sd_mod]
> >
> > The relevant line from ps reads:
> >
> > 2737 ? S 0:09 /usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -d -b 16 -s 1
> -m
> > artsmes
> >
> > Running drakxservices shows that both Alsa and Sound are started at
> boot and
> > running. Checking further I find that in Control Centre my board is
>
> > recognised as an Ensoniq 5880 Audio PCI using kernel module es1371
> (which was
> > why I used this module when setting up modules.conf) The
> configuration tool
> > produces nothing however and neither does sndconfig.
> >
> > The IRQ is 11 and is shared between advansys, usb and ensoniq
> > The ports are cc00-cc3f Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI
> >
> > Interestingly the PCI report states:
> >
> > 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
> > Subsystem: Ensoniq: Unknown device 8001
> > Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
> > I/O ports at cc00 [size=64]
> > Capabilities <available only to root>
> >
> > The last line certainly makes me gnash my teeth because I can't see
> why that
> > would be the case, however...
> >
> > I am at the end of my tether. The card appears to be recognised and
> has a
> > module available but has defied all my efforts to get a peep out of
> it.
> >
> > If there are any suggestions I would be more than willing to hear/try
> them
> > out. As I say, after 4 hard weeks I figure I'm out of ideas and
> patience.
> > The only thing I can say for certain is that there are plenty of
> people
> > writing to a variety of ngs using this chip-set who have a similar
> problem.
> >
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Daryl
>
> HTH, a very confused :)
>
> -Frans
>
>
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