Multimedia :: No Sound, One More Time!



(PROBLEM SOLVED - SEE LAST POST)

Well I am back!  For some reason, my Compaq Armada laptop will not find the sound card in dsl.  I tried sndconfig and used the "ESS1868" selection, but no sound.  In WindowsME on the same computer, I looked at the driver information and found the following:  ES1869, I/O 0230-023F, I/O 0250-0257, I/O 0388-0388, I/O 0320-0321, IRQ 5, DMA 5, DMA 0
When I ran sndconfig and selected the various ESS card selections, nothing worked.
Where do I go from here Forum?
--Ted
Hi tedmoore99,

I have a Compaq Armada 1598DMT, glad to find someone with similiar model :)

I had many troubles getting sound to work on my laptop, well I didn't have sound at all for about a year.

In my case I had to go to BIOS andbring back the default settings.

Ok, but I don't think you should do that. Maybe try to issue this command :

modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 isapnp=0

those values work for me well, but you should try to change them to, for example :

modprobe sb io=0x230 irq=5 dma=0 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x320 isapnp=0

don't forget about raising the default volumes with mixer (dmix)
Thanks for the information.  I tried the two modprobe commands and neither one worked.  I am not very familiar with sound card commands so I don't know what to do now.  Any more ideas?
--Ted
Update:
Installed the ALSA module fromm dsl.  Tried to install "es18xx" which is supposed to be the driver for my card.  modprobe came back with "no device or device busy."  I am stumped.  Forum, I need your help.  Remember, this card works fine when I boot up in WindowsME!  What am I missing?  Thanks in advance.
--Ted
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Installed the ALSA module from dsl

If you installed correctly ALSA you must be able to execute the command:

alsamixer

If errors then two ideas:

IDEA I (Configuring OSS)

1. Execute command:

cat /proc/interrupts

Below a example of result from "cat /proc/interrupts"  

        CPU0      
0:    10784844          XT-PIC  timer
1:       27945          XT-PIC  keyboard
2:           0          XT-PIC  cascade
3:      310046          XT-PIC  orinoco_cs
8:           1          XT-PIC  rtc
11:          0          XT-PIC  Texas Instruments PCI1251A, Texas Instruments PCI1251A (#2), usb-uhci
12:    1380425          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
14:      74469          XT-PIC  ide0
15:       2202          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:         0
LOC:         0
ERR:         0
MIS:         0

First column is the assigned interrupts (assigned irqs).
In this example, free irqs are: 6, 7, 9, 10, 13.

Analogically, to know free dma's following command:

cat /proc/dma

That information will be useful for next step.

2. Execute the sndconfig utility with the option --noprobe so:

sndconfig --noprobe

Using the option "noprobe" sndconfig pass directly to manual configuration.

3. Choose the driver, assign the free irq's and the free dma's from your system according to information from first step.

If IDEA I fails then IDEA II:

IDEA II (Configuring ALSA)

The "alsaconf" utility is for ALSA like to the "sndconfig" utility for OSS.

1. Download alsaconf utility:

sudo su
apt-get install alsaconf

2. Execute utility so:

alsaconf

Choosing the correct driver and using the same criteria to assign resources descripted on IDEA I

3. alsaconf utility can configure several sound cards, then you must choose the first option when the utility begin again (no sound card) to exit from utility and to save the first configuration or the utility will continue indefinitely configuring sound cards.
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