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I'm having trouble with my ess1869 ISA sound card in Red Hat 5.2.  When the
box boots, messages appear to the screen saying that the device or resource
is busy.  Can anyone help?  Is the card partly faulty?

thanks

gavin

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Quote:>I'm having trouble with my ess1869 ISA sound card in Red Hat 5.2.  When the
>box boots, messages appear to the screen saying that the device or resource
>is busy.  Can anyone help?  Is the card partly faulty?

>thanks

>gavin

Hi Gavin,

Check out the CMI-howto (see signature). It should work for your card.

Regards Hans

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"Device or resource busy" typically means that you are loading a driver
module which is trying to access resources (IRQ, DMA, I/O addresses)
which are in use by another driver.  Check with /proc (eg cat /proc/dma,
cat /proc/interrupts, cat /proc/ioports) to see if the resources that
you think should be owned by your ESS driver, are in fact owned by
another driver.

Also, be sure that the errors are being produced by the module which you
think is doing it, eg with dmesg.

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I have never had an install with RedHat that fixed up the sound correctly with
this card. It turns out that the config file is wrong.

With the attachment put into conf.modules
it should work.

You would achieve better results buying the 4-Front driver which works well ($20)
Patching as I say should make the sound work but you will notice that when you
move to kernel 2.2.x that the sound is broken and useless. Maybe a trojan in the
new sound support so we have to use 4-Front stuff.

I found out that with new sound support in the kernel most sound app no longer
work.

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[ snd.txt < 1K ]
alias sound sb
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=-1 mpu_io=0x330
options opl3 io=0x388