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Re: es1869 soundcard



I have an ES1869 (I think), but have been using OSS.  It detected it and
it worked perfectly, so that could at least be a fallback.  

I only use OSS because I paid for it a long time ago.

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 09:03:53AM -0800, Camiel Coenen wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, I have a laptop with an ES1869 AudioDrive 
> > card, which I have tried to compile into the 
> > kernel. According to the manual in /usr/src/linux/
> > Documentation/sound, I need to add the argument 
> > esstype=1869 to the Soundblaster configuration in 
> > order for the system to detect my card, but I 
> > haven't managed to with either make menuconfig or 
> > make xconfig. Other sound components such as OPL3 
> > are successfully initialized during the boot 
> > process. Has anyone of experienced the same 
> > problem with the es1869 : can you help me out ?
> > 
> In case everything else fails:
> 
> I have an ESS Maestro and I have been booting DOS with the DOS drivers
> for the card to put it in SounBlaster Compatibility mode and then
> automaticaly boot to Linux using LOADLIN in AUTOEXEC.BAT.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Rafa
> 
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