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Quote:>> Does anyone else have one of these card up and running?  And if so,
>> could you spare this newbie some advice?  Maybe I have missed something
>> really simple and just don't see it :-(
[snip]

>I have an ES1868 card.  After much frustration I got it to work, sort
>of.  It won't work with sdoom, but I can play sounds and modules etc,
>as well as audio CDs.  Much of my information came from the sound
>HOWTO, README.cards in the source tree (/usr/linux/drivers/sound), and
>George Dau's Home Page
>http://www.ozemail.com.au/~gedau/mysystem.html#ESS

        Like Karl I used the isapnptools package to probe for the card and
see what it was made off.  The conf file that it yeilded was came with many
configuration possibilities all commented out.  It was an act of guess work
and faith deciding which of the options to comment out, but it worked first
time round except that I hadn't enabled mpu support in the kernel.  Here is
what the file looks like.

        # $Id: pnpdump.c,v 1.8 1997/01/14 21:05:35 fox Exp $
        # This is free software, see the sources for details.
        # This software has NO WARRANTY, use at your OWN RISK
        #
        # For details of this file format, see isapnp.conf(5)
        #
        # Compiler flags: -DREALTIME -DNEEDSETSCHEDULER
        #
        # Trying port address 0203
        # Board 1 has serial identifier 27 ff ff ff ff 68 18 73 16

        (ISOLATE)
        (IDENTIFY *)

        # Card 1: (serial identifier 27 ff ff ff ff 68 18 73 16)
        # ESS1868 Serial No -1 [checksum 27]
        # Version 1.0, Vendor version 1.0
        # ANSI string -->ESS ES1868 Plug and Play AudioDrive<--
        #
        # Logical device id ESS0000
        #
        (CONFIGURE ESS1868/-1  (LD 0  (IO 0 (BASE 0x0800))  (ACT Y)))
        #

        # Logical device id ESS1868
        #
        (CONFIGURE ESS1868/-1 (LD 1

        (DMA 0  (CHANNEL 1))
        (DMA 1  (CHANNEL 0))
        (INT 0  (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
        (IO 0 (BASE 0x0220))
        (IO 1 (BASE 0x0388))
        (IO 2 (BASE 0x0330))
        (ACT Y)))

        #
        # Logical device id ESS0001
        #
        (CONFIGURE ESS1868/-1 (LD 2
        (IO 0 (BASE 0x0201))
        (IO 0 (BASE 0x0200))
        (ACT Y)))

        #
        # Logical device id ESS0002
        #
        (CONFIGURE ESS1868/-1 (LD 3
        (INT 0  (IRQ 12 (MODE +E)))
        (IO 0 (BASE 0x0168))
        (IO 1 (BASE 0x036e))
        (ACT Y)))

        # End tag... Checksum 0x00 (OK)

        Then  I did `make config' for the kernel compile taking the
necessary values for irq, base address etc and supplying them as needed for
the kernel config file,  Like I said, I didn't enable mpu401 first time
round because I wasn't sure if the card supported it.  When I realized it
did (cat /dev/sndstat) I recompiled enabling mpu401 support, but ended up
with two mpu devices configured in the kernel but neither detected, and I
lost the midi device.  So, you might want to follow Karl's example more
closely than mine.  Just thought I let you see my isapnp.conf file and
testimonial that your card will work.

        Good luck.

        Gerald Crimp

Quote:>      Like Karl I used the isapnptools package to probe for the card and
>see what it was made off.  The conf file that it yeilded was came with many
>configuration possibilities all commented out.  It was an act of guess work
>and faith deciding which of the options to comment out, but it worked first
>time round except that I hadn't enabled mpu support in the kernel.  Here is
>what the file looks like.

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I'll also throw my hat into the ring...

The ESS1868 does work OK under linux.  Like others have said before
you need to use the isapnp utility, and load sound as a module.

Take a look at:

    http://www.netspace.net.au/~bmiller/linux/ess1868.html

for what I have done to get things working.

Brian
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but as the ESS1868 is supposted to be SoundBlater Pro
compatible, can't you just use that option? The sndconfig utility might then
be able to use the ESS card without having to mess around with isapnp utility.
Having said that, my Linux box uses a bog-standard SoundBlater Pro ....

Clem