Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI - module loads, but no sound...

2001-05-04 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
A friend has a new PC (Athlon 900MHz) with a motherboard with onboard SoundBlaster PCI128 (or should I call it Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI...) Relevant Output of lspci: $ /sbin/lspci | grep 5880 ; /sbin/lspci -n | grep 5880 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 03) 00:0e.0

Re: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI - module loads, but no sound...

2001-05-04 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Just have to mention, alsa appears to be working great. Still odd that the normal es1371 module doesn't work. Thanks anyway, Hugo On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:04:31PM +0200, hugo wrote: A friend has a new PC (Athlon 900MHz) with a motherboard with onboard SoundBlaster PCI128 (or should I call it

Re: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI - module loads, but no sound...

2001-05-04 Thread Raja R Harinath
Hi, Hugo van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] and the mixer appears to work (I used gom -it), but when I try to play something (an mp3 with mpg123, a wav or .au with sox's play, esd's test by simply running esd), the relevant program freezes and no sound comes out. (By freezes I

Re: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI - module loads, but no sound...

2001-05-04 Thread Robert Voigt
On Friday 04 May 2001 15:04, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: Oh, and I'm using kernel 2.4.2.. I'm gonna try alsa now. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe I have this same soundchip onboard and I also didn't get sound with the oss kernel module. I tried alsa and it worked. Isn't it great that different

Re: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI - module loads, but no sound...

2001-05-04 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Try $ fuser -v /dev/dsp It'll show you the program that has currently opened the sound device. Most likely, you have 'esd' running as part of your Gnome session. To fix, - run all your audio apps in ESound mode - disable Startup Sound Server in your Gnome control panel -

Re: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI - module loads, but no sound...

2001-05-04 Thread Raja R Harinath
Robert Voigt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 04 May 2001 15:04, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: Oh, and I'm using kernel 2.4.2.. I'm gonna try alsa now. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe I have this same soundchip onboard and I also didn't get sound with the oss kernel module. I tried alsa and