I was able to get my es1371 card to work in RH6 by choosing to compile
sound (iinto the kernnel) as a module (this is default, so i didn't
even have to compile another kernel), then choosing to compile the
audioPCI driver (es1371) as a module. After a make modules, I edited
my /etc/conf.modules to look like:
alias sound es1371
it worked fine after that (next reboot of course, or you could type
`insmod sound` if you don;t want to reboot.
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On 9/1/99, 4:48:37 AM, Ralf Siemieniec
PLEASE! - sound card woes:
> > I've been trying in vain for weeks to get my sound card to work. I've
> > got a Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI 64D. I figured out that it's the 1371
> > chipset by checking the pci settings (I can't remember where how to do
> > this). Initially, I had the 2.2.5-11 kernel and tried to get it to
> > work. No go. Then I tried the alsa drivers. Again no go (I'm sure
I'm
> > not setting it up right, but the documentation was really hard to
> > follow). So after a few weeks of mucking about I've moved onto to the
> > 2.2.11 kernel because somebody told me it supported my card. Well I
> > compiled it with sound support in the kernel, the card as a module. I
> > followed the SOUND howto and saw that a "ls -l /dev/sndstat" actually
> > returned something. But, when I did "cat /dev/sndtat" it's empty. I
> > used "modprobe es1371" to load the module but still nothing.
> > So I'm going to start from scratch and recompile the 2.2.11 kernel. I
> > know I need to pick sound support, and my sound card. My sound card
> > needs to be comipled as a module. I also included isapnp just in case
> > and some other pci related things. Do I need to tick the OSS free
> > modules too?
> > I am a little frustrated some could sombody please help me!
> > spt
> > a.k.a. the guy with the mute computer
> Hi, Sean,
> Your card should work with Kernel 2.2.5 or later. Since the AudioPCI64
or
> 128 does not support the sndstat-device,
> there is no wonder that there is silence only.
> I'm using a SB 128 PCI with similar start problems. I use Suse-Linux,,
so
> maybe some of the following notes may be a bit different with other
> distributions. I'm using sound as modules first:
> I had to edit the /etc/conf.modules file. the lines
> alias char-major-14 off
> alias sound off
> alias midi off
> should change to:
> alias char-major-14 es1371
> # alias sound off
> # alias midi off
> Start a mixer. Now using 'lsmod' should tell something about es1371
and
> soundcore modules. If nothing works, retry after depmod -a.
> In my syztem, I was able to play sound by using rplay nnn.wav - take
care
> about your mixer !!!
> If you are using KDE, you have to start the sound by editing
> /opt/kde/bin/startkde:
> kaudioserver &
> kwmsound &
> Anything works fine, it is not necessary to use OSS oor ALSA
(nevertheless,
> ALSA works fine too, but ALSA mutes the channels at each Reboot of the
> system). But, the mixer standard is very silent ... :-)
> Please tell me, if you have success
> Ralf
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