Re: ALSA on Compaq Armada 7400

[RRPotratz <thunderbolt@dustypenguin.com>]

Willie McKemie wrote:

> For years, I have been trying to get sound working on Compaq Armadas: 
> 73xx, 78xx, 7400, & 7800.  Thanks to some help I got here months ago, I 
> got it going without ALSA; I guess that's OSS.  I've tried to start 
> using ALSA and now I've gotten sound broken again.  This is on a 7400 
> running Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.8.  I think it is a problem of just not 
> knowing how to configure ALSA.  Before ALSA, "sb irq=5 io=0x220 dma=1" 
> in /etc/modules gave me working sound.  With ALSA, 
> snd-es18xx irq=5 io=0x220 dma=1
> and
> snd-sb16 irq=5 io=0x220 dma=1
> result in "failure to detect" at boot.
>
> If someone has ALSA working on a similair Armada, please tell me how 
> you have it configured.
>
>  
The easiest way I've gotten this to work on a 7400 was to install Mepis 
and then run "alsaconfig".  Zip, bam, boom, it worked!

RRP

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