Re: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro Problem

[Jeff <jcoppock1@attbi.com>]

red, 2002-Jan-11 15:59 +0100:
>    Hi
>    I have an "network" laptop with an ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro sound
>    card.
>    I use the 2.4.17 kernel. I install the new kernel and i must did
>    something wrong
>    because modconf shows me only "pcmcia cards" ;)
>    Now I try to install the soundcard driver with alsaconf but there is
>    no card with *ES1978 ;(
> 
>    lspci -v shows me that:
> 
>    00:10.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro
>    Audiodrive (rev 10)
>            Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 3102
>            Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 5
>            I/O ports at 3100 [size=256]
>            Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
> 
>    Have somebody an idea what to do ?
> 
>    sorry for my bad english ;)

Your english is fine.

For the kernel config, be sure you selected these:

CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO=m/y

I chose m for modules, then add 'maestro' to you /etc/modules file
to get the modules to load at boot.

If you've compiled the module, them do 'insmod maestro' and see
if it loads.

jc

-- 
Jeff Coppock		Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian		Admin and User