Update on the struggle: Installed alsaconf Ran alsaconf and selected "ES18xx" Set Card #0, I/O=0x230, I/O=0x320 Get message at prompt "Aborted" Tried several settings for Card#, and both I/O's, no change. it still sends me back to the prompt with the message, "aborted" I am stumped. --Ted
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it still sends me back to the prompt with the message, "aborted"
There are conflicts with the previous sound configuration or incorrect driver. Unfortunately, as you begin to know, when the automatic sound configuration by DSL fails is not a easy job to do a manual configuration. When a test fails, you must not be satisfied with only one attempt. The smallest details does the difference between success and unsuccess.
First check if your steps was this when you installed ALSA: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. If boot from LiveCD you must use the boot option "dsl alsa". If DSL was installed to hard disk you must add the option "alsa" (without quotation marks) to file /etc/lilo.conf file if the boot loader installed is Lilo, or to /boot/grub/menu.lst file if the boot loader installed is Grub.
2. Install the 3 following MyDSL extensions:
-gnu-utils.dsl -dsl-dpkg.dsl -If your DSL is v2.0 or v2.1 then install alsa.dsl, else install alsadebs.dsl. (IMPORTANT: Choose the correct file for your DSL version or the ALSA driver not will work)
3. Execute the "ALSA install" script by go to MyDSL -> ALSA menu. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you did not something from above, you must do the installation again.
Next, check the installation by reading the result from this command :
lsmod
Check if appears the snd-es18xx module. If not, try this:
sudo su update-modules
And execute "alsaconf" utility:
alsaconf
When installs ALSA all mixer channels are muted by default. Then execute "alsamixer" utility so:
alsamixer
Using the keyboard, the Left and right arrow keys are used to select the channel, while 'M' key toggles muting for the current channel.Just to say that "modprobe sb ..." worked fine on my Armada 4210; ALSA didnt work ("no supported souncard found")Thanks for the input Jerome. Can you post the result from the "lsmod" command?. That could be very useful.Piccolo you have been soooo patient, thanks a lot but... I have dsl-2.4 installed, so which alsa package do I want? I tried them both and have gotten nowhere. When I installed alsa.dsl I got errors that the "es18xx" module was not found (along with many others). When I installed alsadebs.dsl, I could not run alsaconf without using "apt-get install alsaconf" When I ran alsaconf after using apt-get to install it, I tried selecting the "es18xx" driver but the program aborted.
I am in total agreement that it isn't easy installing sound drivers manually. But I will stick to it. --TedNext Page...
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