Re: Need help setting up SB PCI 128 sound card on potato system
* Nate Amsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040401 08:58]: Joe Nahmias wrote: So far, I have downloaded the latest 2.2 kernel (2.2.19) and compiled in support for the card (CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y), with no success. After booting the newly compiled kernel, the soundcard is recognized (see dmesg output fragment below), but it is unusable, ie. 'cat /dev/sndstat' returns: No such device. did you expect something from /dev/sndstat ? i've never used that .. i also have a ES1371(or is it a 1370 ..) it is a SB PCI 128..using kernel 2.2.18(self compiled and it works great. infact its by far my favorite soundcard to use in linux..i wouldnt use anything else. FWIW: cat /dev/sndstat used to produce a listing of information about the installed sound device. I see that it no longer does...it did, however, function that way in 2.2.17 (at least with regards to my Soundblaster AWE64). The command is referenced in the Soundblaster AWE64 HOWTO (and probably in the Sound HOWTO as well...)
Re: Need help setting up SB PCI 128 sound card on potato system
Joe Nahmias wrote: Hello All! I have a newly installed Debian 2.2r0 (yes, I know I should upgrade, but that's what was on the cd...) system that I'm trying to get my sound card (SoundBlaster PCI 128) working on. So far, I have downloaded the latest 2.2 kernel (2.2.19) and compiled in support for the card (CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y), with no success. After booting the newly compiled kernel, the soundcard is recognized (see dmesg output fragment below), but it is unusable, ie. 'cat /dev/sndstat' returns: No such device. did you expect something from /dev/sndstat ? i've never used that .. i also have a ES1371(or is it a 1370 ..) it is a SB PCI 128..using kernel 2.2.18(self compiled and it works great. infact its by far my favorite soundcard to use in linux..i wouldnt use anything else. try something that actually plays a sound(xmms, mpg123, mpegtv, realplayer etc) it should work ..of course if your not in the right group and your running as non root that won't work so be sure your in the right group(audio i believe) nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help setting up SB PCI 128 sound card on potato system
hey, have you created your sound devices (as root)? # cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV audio are you a member of the audio group? those are two pretty common mistakes for NEWBIEs (actually I think everyone makes them at some time or another--i know I have) Cameron Matheson Joe Nahmias wrote: Hello All! I have a newly installed Debian 2.2r0 (yes, I know I should upgrade, but that's what was on the cd...) system that I'm trying to get my sound card (SoundBlaster PCI 128) working on. So far, I have downloaded the latest 2.2 kernel (2.2.19) and compiled in support for the card (CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y), with no success. After booting the newly compiled kernel, the soundcard is recognized (see dmesg output fragment below), but it is unusable, ie. 'cat /dev/sndstat' returns: No such device. I realize this is probably not a Debian specific question, but as I have read the Sound-HOWTO about 13 times already, I figured it couldn't hurt to ask here... I am enclosing the appropriate parts of /proc/pci and dmesg output to help troubleshooting. Thanks in advance for your help, Joe Nahmias [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS - Please cc me on all replies as I don't subscribe to this list. PPS - I dual boot with Win 98SE on this machine, and sound is happy there. == Start /proc/pci excerpt Bus 0, device 13, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 (rev 7). Slow devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc01]. == End /proc/pci excerpt == Start dmesg | grep es1371 es1371: version v0.28 time 03:31:17 Apr 3 2001 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x07 es1371: found es1371 rev 7 at io 0xdc00 irq 11 es1371: features: joystick 0x200 es1371: codec vendor v (0x838476) revision 8 (0x08) es1371: codec features 18bit DAC 18bit ADC es1371: stereo enhancement: SigmaTel SS3D == End dmesg | grep es1371 _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Need help setting up SB PCI 128 sound card on potato system
Just a thoughthave you checked to see if the driver module(s) are being loaded? I have an older PCI128 card here that uses the es1370 chipset, and it works fine in Linux. A lsmod command should show both a soundcore and a es1371 module loaded. If they are not there, you might want to use MODCONF and add at least the es1371 module. It think it will drag the other one along with it at boot-time. BTW, if you EVER get this card to play MIDI files under Linux other than by using timidity, PLEASE let me know how you did it!! I have been searching for over a year! The Commercial OSS drivers work fine with this card too... Cheers, -Don Spoon-
Need help setting up SB PCI 128 sound card on potato system
Hello All! I have a newly installed Debian 2.2r0 (yes, I know I should upgrade, but that's what was on the cd...) system that I'm trying to get my sound card (SoundBlaster PCI 128) working on. So far, I have downloaded the latest 2.2 kernel (2.2.19) and compiled in support for the card (CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y), with no success. After booting the newly compiled kernel, the soundcard is recognized (see dmesg output fragment below), but it is unusable, ie. 'cat /dev/sndstat' returns: No such device. I realize this is probably not a Debian specific question, but as I have read the Sound-HOWTO about 13 times already, I figured it couldn't hurt to ask here... I am enclosing the appropriate parts of /proc/pci and dmesg output to help troubleshooting. Thanks in advance for your help, Joe Nahmias [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS - Please cc me on all replies as I don't subscribe to this list. PPS - I dual boot with Win 98SE on this machine, and sound is happy there. == Start /proc/pci excerpt Bus 0, device 13, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 (rev 7). Slow devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc01]. == End /proc/pci excerpt == Start dmesg | grep es1371 es1371: version v0.28 time 03:31:17 Apr 3 2001 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x07 es1371: found es1371 rev 7 at io 0xdc00 irq 11 es1371: features: joystick 0x200 es1371: codec vendor v (0x838476) revision 8 (0x08) es1371: codec features 18bit DAC 18bit ADC es1371: stereo enhancement: SigmaTel SS3D == End dmesg | grep es1371
