Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread j . visch
> > On Fri, April 1, 2005 3:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >> Has anyone suggested booting the PC with Knoppix to see if the card > >> works - > >> hardware detection can sometimes be quite good in Knoppix. May save > >> some > >> time if it turns out to be a dud card, on the other hand i

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, April 1, 2005 3:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> Has anyone suggested booting the PC with Knoppix to see if the card >> works - >> hardware detection can sometimes be quite good in Knoppix. May save >> some >> time if it turns out to be a dud card, on the other hand inspires >> confidenc

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread j . visch
> Has anyone suggested booting the PC with Knoppix to see if the card works - > hardware detection can sometimes be quite good in Knoppix. May save some > time if it turns out to be a dud card, on the other hand inspires confidence > to know that it works if it fires up OK . Sadly my only co

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread j . visch
> Hi, > Quick recap: there are glitches in the audio played by this sound card. > That suggests to me that ioport/irq are correct. > > If you switch to console only (run level 3) and type > play audiofile.wav > > is there any significant difference in the glitch pattern ? > > I am won

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread sirlancelot
worth - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 11:45 AM Subject: Re: problem with isa sound card > > Is this a problem that has suddenly developed? > > No, I am putting togther a pc for my sister, went to computer broker and bought $5 > sound card. > > > >

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread j . visch
> Hi, > Quick recap: there are glitches in the audio played by this sound card. > That suggests to me that ioport/irq are correct. > > If you switch to console only (run level 3) and type > play audiofile.wav > > is there any significant difference in the glitch pattern ? > > I am won

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, Quick recap: there are glitches in the audio played by this sound card. That suggests to me that ioport/irq are correct. If you switch to console only (run level 3) and type play audiofile.wav is there any significant difference in the glitch pattern ? I am wondering if the system is starv

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread j . visch
> On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:50, Nick Rout wrote: > > On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:47:00 +1200 > > That will be of little use as he is using alsa > > I know & imho that's 90% of the problem, we could add > file:///usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/alsa/* > too. There are oss drivers for his old car

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread j . visch
> > 5: 1 XT-PIC ES18xx > > > 0220-022f : ES18xx > > These are the values where the card driver expects them to be, and which > the driver registered with the kernel. How confident are you that the > card does in fact have its IRQ and IO range at these places? It is

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> 5: 1 XT-PIC ES18xx > 0220-022f : ES18xx These are the values where the card driver expects them to be, and which the driver registered with the kernel. How confident are you that the card does in fact have its IRQ and IO range at these places? I'm asking because just yes

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:50, Nick Rout wrote: > On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:47:00 +1200 > > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > From what I have seen so far there is no mention of the options you used > > when inserting the sound modules. I fear that these are not correctly > > set. > > > > Hopefully you have

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread j . visch
> On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>From the below I am guessing I must be using oss. > > > > > > Nope, that's alsa stuff. > > > > > > > linux:/home/mathjsv # lsmod | grep sound > > > > soundcore 3396 0 [snd] > > > >

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:47:00 +1200 Christopher Sawtell wrote: > From what I have seen so far there is no mention of the options you used when > inserting the sound modules. I fear that these are not correctly set. > > Hopefully you have the Kernel Documentation installed, if so please refer to

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>From the below I am guessing I must be using oss. > > > > Nope, that's alsa stuff. > > > > > linux:/home/mathjsv # lsmod | grep sound > > > soundcore 3396 0 [snd] > > > linux:/home/mathjsv # lsmo

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread j . visch
> Is this a problem that has suddenly developed? No, I am putting togther a pc for my sister, went to computer broker and bought $5 sound card.

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread Nick Rout
Is this a problem that has suddenly developed? On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:32:01 +1200 Rex Johnston wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>From the below I am guessing I must be using oss. > -- Nick Rout

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread j . visch
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>From the below I am guessing I must be using oss. > > Nope, that's alsa stuff. > > > > > linux:/home/mathjsv # lsmod | grep sound > > soundcore 3396 0 [snd] > > linux:/home/mathjsv # lsmod | grep snd > > snd-pcm-oss458

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread j . visch
> I have always used sndconfig to configure ISA sound cards. > > I think it's a RedHat program, but seems to work with any distro. > > Last time I looked version 0.7 was current, but I got better results > using v0.67 (which I've kept from RedHat6.0) > > Let me know if you'd like to give

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread Rex Johnston
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the below I am guessing I must be using oss. Nope, that's alsa stuff. linux:/home/mathjsv # lsmod | grep sound soundcore 3396 0 [snd] linux:/home/mathjsv # lsmod | grep snd snd-pcm-oss45888 1 (autoclean) snd-mixer-oss 135

RE: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread j . visch
> Hi, > Apologies, my question on what sound system are you using was totally > vague. > > Alsa - oss arts what ? > > lsmod will tell you what modules are loaded, and you have a look through > for snd related modules > > lsmod | grep sound > lsmod | grep snd >From the below I am

RE: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, Apologies, my question on what sound system are you using was totally vague. Alsa - oss arts what ? lsmod will tell you what modules are loaded, and you have a look through for snd related modules lsmod | grep sound lsmod | grep snd for me, with alsa on a redhat9 box, I get from lsmod |

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread yuri
I think Mr Visch got caught out by the gmail reply-to header. I'm guessing this was meant to go to the list. > Please post output of > cat /proc/interrupts > (I think, I'm not at home to see if that's the right one) CPU0 0: 177230 XT-PIC timer 1:310 XT-PI

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread Ross Drummond
For finding ISA cards that do not wish to be found, for changing interupts on non jumpered ISA cards, or extracting low level card information consider isapnptools. From the package headers; "Note that the BIOS doesn't do a very good job of allocating resources. So isapnptools is suitable for

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread Glenn Cogle
I have always used sndconfig to configure ISA sound cards. I think it's a RedHat program, but seems to work with any distro. Last time I looked version 0.7 was current, but I got better results using v0.67 (which I've kept from RedHat6.0) Let me know if you'd like to give sndconfig a go and I'll

RE: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread j . visch
> Hi, > and what sound system are you using? Do you mean the sound card? In which case ES18xx, if you mean the software alsa I think via xmms.

RE: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-31 Thread j . visch
> Check your bios settings for IRQ, and your dmesg on boot for any errors. > Cat /proc/interrupts too to see if theres anything amiss. > > Failing that, get a PCI card :) That would cost more than the computer, but yeah I am considering that as a possible solution.

RE: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-30 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, and what sound system are you using? Derek. == On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, C. Falconer wrote: > Check your bios settings for IRQ, and your dmesg on boot for any errors. > Cat /proc/interrupts too to see if theres anything amiss. > > Failing that, get a PCI card :) > > Sounds like a ski

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
cat /proc/interrupts and see if there is a conflict. also dmesg|grep irq On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:37:04 + (GMT) j.visch wrote: > Sounds like a skipping record, searched google which says it is due to > interrupt problem but am unsure of how to fix. Using Suse 8.2 > > Any suggestions app

RE: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-30 Thread C. Falconer
Check your bios settings for IRQ, and your dmesg on boot for any errors. Cat /proc/interrupts too to see if theres anything amiss. Failing that, get a PCI card :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2005 12:37 p.m. To: linux-user

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-30 Thread yuri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:37:04 + (GMT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sounds like a skipping record, searched google which says it is due to > interrupt problem but am unsure of how to fix. Using Suse 8.2 > > Any suggestions appreciated. Please post output of cat /proc/interrupts (I think, I'm not