Re: Sound Card

[Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <baptista@linuxsolutions.com.br>]

	Hi,
	I still dont get the sound configured. It appears that I have a CMI 8330
3D Audio Adapter and a ESS 1869 (two sound cards???!?!?) in the same machine.
	My Ethernet card only wants to work in IRQ 5 that is the recommended IRQ
for ESS1868 kernel documentation.
	If anyone has a sound card like please write for me with your
isapnp.conf and /etc/modules.
	Thanks,		Paulo Henrique
Quoting Paul J. Keenan (paul.keenan@motorola.com):
> Hola Paulo,
> 
> I checked /usr/src/linux/Documentation and found a document
> called ESS ... I've attached it to the foot of this message.
> It sounds like you need the soundblaster module (sb.o).
> 
> These's another doc specific to the ESS1868, don't know if
> this might also apply to your board's chip.
> 
> Use the source,
> Paul
> 
> 
> Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> > 
> >         Hi all,
> >         I'm installing Debian in an old Pentium 100 that I dont have the
> > specifications and my friends tell me that there is an onboard sound card.
> >         I tried a pnpdump > /etc/isapn.conf and then isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf and
> > the result is:
> >         bash:~# isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
> > Board 1 has Identity be ff ff ff ff 69 18 73 16:  ESS1869 Serial No -1
> > [checksum be]
> > ESS1869/-1[1]{ESS ES1869 Plug and Play AudioDrive}: --- Enabled OK
> > ESS1869/-1[3]{ESS ES1869 Plug and Play AudioDrive}: Ports 0x168 0x36E; IRQ9
> > --- Enabled OK
> > bash:~#
> > 
> >         What kernel sound modules I need to have sound here? I'm at lost of what
> > sound card is this?
> >         BTW, when I tried pnpdump -c > /etc/isapnp.conf it freezed.
> >         Thanks for any help,            Paulo Henrique
> > 
> > --
> > Abraços,                PH
> > Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira -- baptista@linuxsolutions.com.br
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Paul
> Documentation for the ESS AudioDrive chips
> 
> In 2.2 kernels the SoundBlaster driver not only tries to detect an ESS chip, it
> tries to detect the type of ESS chip too. The correct detection of the chip 
> doesn't always succeed however, so the default behaviour is 2.0 behaviour
> which means: only detect ES688 and ES1688.
> 
> All ESS chips now have a recording level setting. This is a need-to-have for
> people who want to use their ESS for recording sound.
> 
> Every chip that's detected as a later-than-es1688 chip has a 6 bits logarithmic
> master volume control.
> 
> Every chip that's detected as a ES1887 now has Full Duplex support. Made a 
> little testprogram that showes that is works, haven't seen a real program that
> needs this however.
> 
> For ESS chips an additional parameter "esstype" can be specified. This controls
> the (auto) detection of the ESS chips. It can have 3 kinds of values:
> 
> -1   Act like 2.0 kernels: only detect ES688 or ES1688.
> 0	 Try to auto-detect the chip (may fail for ES1688)
> 688  The chip will be treated as  ES688
> 1688  ,,  ,,   ,,  ,,    ,,   ,, ES1688
> 1868  ,,  ,,   ,,  ,,    ,,   ,, ES1868
> 1869  ,,  ,,   ,,  ,,    ,,   ,, ES1869
> 1788  ,,  ,,   ,,  ,,    ,,   ,, ES1788
> 1887  ,,  ,,   ,,  ,,    ,,   ,, ES1887
> 1888  ,,  ,,   ,,  ,,    ,,   ,, ES1888
> 
> Because Full Duplex is supported for ES1887 you can specify a second DMA
> channel by specifying module parameter dma16. It can be one of: 0, 1, 3 or 5.
> 


-- 
Abraços,		PH
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira -- baptista@linuxsolutions.com.br
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