[expert] Sound Is Impossible
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 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 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 byNot tainted sr_mod 15192 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-midi3424 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss26112 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3504 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq43056 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss18848 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) parport25440 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] snd-card-ens13712208 1 snd-ens137110624 0 [snd-card-ens1371] snd-pcm33824 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1371] snd-timer 9568 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi10688 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] snd35648 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) usbcore62048 1 [usb-uhci] 3c59x 26536 1 (autoclean) st 28052 0 (unused) supermount 62308 2 (autoclean) ide-scsi8096 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
Re: [expert] Sound Is Impossible
Daryl Johnson 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 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 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 byNot tainted sr_mod 15192 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-midi3424 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss26112 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3504 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq43056 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss18848 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) parport25440 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] snd-card-ens13712208 1 snd-ens137110624 0 [snd-card-ens1371] snd-pcm33824 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1371] snd-timer 9568 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi10688 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] snd35648 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) usbcore62048 1 [usb-uhci] 3c59x 26536 1 (autoclean) st 28052 0 (unused) supermount 62308 2 (autoclean) ide-scsi8096 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
Re: [expert] Sound Is Impossible
On Friday 12 July 2002 17:55, Larry Sword wrote: Daryl, [...] Since there are a number of SoundBlasters out there can you provide more info on your sound card, the 4.1. Is it a Live or the new Audigy series, or an older card? Larry Al I can tell you is in the posting :o( The box says it's made by Creative and it's a Sound Blaster 4.1 Digital. More than that I can't say because that's all the reference on box and printed material. Civilme says it's bleeding edge technology which isn't particularly encouraging :o( regards Daryl -- A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor, Newsweek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sound Is Impossible
On Friday 12 July 2002 13:46, civileme wrote: Daryl Johnson wrote: [...] 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... [...] Daryl Yep, when you buy on the leading edge you soon know what it is to be sliding down the razor blade of life. There is typically a gap of 3-6 months for linux to catch up and support new hardware because manufacturers rarely prioritize linux drivers and sometimes are very tight-lipped about tech info. But for THAT card I have seen unfavorable reports even with some versaions of Windows. Civileme I suppose, on the plus side, by inference, my set-up is more or less as you might expect in a working set-up? I mean I may as well take some satisfaction from knowing that everything is as it should be (except it doesn't work :o( ) regards Daryl -- memo, n.: An interoffice communication too often written more for the benefit of the person who sends it than the person who receives it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sound Is Impossible
Daryl Johnson wrote: On Friday 12 July 2002 13:46, civileme wrote: Daryl Johnson wrote: [...] 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... [...] Daryl Yep, when you buy on the leading edge you soon know what it is to be sliding down the razor blade of life. There is typically a gap of 3-6 months for linux to catch up and support new hardware because manufacturers rarely prioritize linux drivers and sometimes are very tight-lipped about tech info. But for THAT card I have seen unfavorable reports even with some versaions of Windows. Civileme I suppose, on the plus side, by inference, my set-up is more or less as you might expect in a working set-up? I mean I may as well take some satisfaction from knowing that everything is as it should be (except it doesn't work :o( ) regards Daryl Inded it is, and you can add a lot to your index of knowledge gained for your trouble. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
