Hi,
Finally I managed to get ALSA running properly on my Compaq Armada 3500 with
an es1869 soundchip. The problem was apparently an IRQ DMA problem. I read
the datasheet of the es1869 and there I found that it's best to have the
first DMA channel set to 1 and the second DMA set to 0, 1 or 3. I
Paul Davis wrote:
>>Isn't there any option to use a 'virtual' ALSA device? Like snd-pcm-oss, but
>>then the other way around. snd-oss-pcm module? Then you could use ALSA with
>>a working OSS driver, and no working ALSA driver...
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> ALSA has a significantly different internal architecture th
Hi,
I'm still trying to get ALSA running on my es1869 chip. The chip gets
detected properly:
ALSA ../alsa-kernel/isa/es18xx.c:1544: [0x220] ESS1869 chip found
Also alsamixer works properly.
But when I try to play a soundfile with alsaplayer I just get whitish noise.
I get a lot of message
> well, es18xx might be broken, as already posted.
> unfortunately we cannot test it because of lack of hardware.
> it'd be apprecated if you help debugging, then.
I was sent some information about how to get it running. Probably I didn't
go through the manuals thoroughly. But up to now I haven'
Hi. I'm trying to get my laptop soundchip, an ES1869 running under ALSA.
Under OSS it runs as an sb. With "modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5"
I get:
SB 3.01 detected OK (220)
ESS chip ES1869 detected
at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1,5
But this doesn't work with any of the ALSA sb modules. None of
