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 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
