ESS1879 Sound Working

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: ESS1879 Sound Working
started by: Grigorii

Posted by Grigorii on Sep. 15 2005,23:31

On a Gateway Solo 5100
266 mobile pentium
144 meg Ram
Dual boot with 98SE
Frugal install 1.5 with grub
usb disabled in grub

After checking Bios settings. Switching from <AUTO> to <Manual> settings and writing down the info.
In my case,
Base IO 220~22F
DMA=1
DMA=2
IRQ=5
FM=388
mpu_io= 330~331

Did a

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modinfo sd

to see if the module was detected. It was.
Then a

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modprobe sb io=220 irq=5 dma=1 dma=2 mpu_io=330

Started XMMS and

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LO! The sound was heard...

Being good the modprobe line was added to

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bootlocal.sh

All actions were performed as in sudo. It is important to mount you HD as well, seeing as you'll be modding files there.

Sincerely,
grigorii

ps It took far to long to to flesh this info from the forums. :angry:

Posted by Grigorii on Sep. 16 2005,00:58

mmm plays Cd's ..no mp3 OG or streaming...argggh

Posted by tempestuous on Sep. 16 2005,01:33

Thorough discussion of ESS configuration here -
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=4615 >

And some extra information since you are dual-booting (as I am); the Linux OSS sb module may "misbehave" (play sound too fast for example) if the sound chip is first initialised by a Window$ driver.
The solution is to fully power-down, before booting into Linux.

Posted by Grigorii on Sep. 18 2005,23:43

now at /etc/modules.conf more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.26/modules.dep

update-modules cannot write to the modules.dep file. it comes back as a read-only.

i'm newby. how do I do it??

pleae help.

grigor

Posted by Grigorii on Sep. 18 2005,23:53

I ignore better reason, and reboot after adding info to filetool.lst.

sound good no stutter. after much woork it all seems work.