Re: es1370 installs but doesn't work

[Chris Baker <cbaker@adrenalin.com>]

Kent West <westk@acu.edu> writes:

[...discussion of diagnosing sound card snipped...]

> So Chris, your ES1370 works properly now? Can you do a "cat
> /dev/sndstat"?
> 
> I've got an ES1371 that I've been wrestling off-and-on for months
> with. It's not important enough to buckle down and fix it, but it
> really bothers me that some of the HOWTO information seems to be
> so irrelevant concerning this card, like the inability to do a
> "cat /dev/sndstat". I just don't have confidence in the HOWTO
> because of this, and the troubleshooting information just isn't
> there in enough detail to figure out what's going wrong. So
> anyway, after ranting here, my only question is, again, can you
> do a "cat /dev/sndstat" or does it still fail even though your
> sound card is working?

The `cat /dev/sndstat' stuff appears to be something of a red herring
here (with this hardware atleast).  Just launch freeamp and play
something.  Does anyone here know why this is?

The Sound-HOWTO seems out of date, and the kernel documentation is
less than clear, so I sympathize with your frustration.

Best wishes,

cbb