es1371

["romain lerallut" <rom1@catsrule.garfield.com>]

Hello debian-users !

I have a problem using a es1371 sound card (it's really a SB128 PCI).
In a nutshell: the system can't talk to the card...

I am using woody and a kernel 2.2.17

Here's what I did:

recompiling the kernel (sound support: module , es1371: module )
 es1371.o and soundcore.o are in /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc,  OK

reboot.

I see something flashing about a char-major-14 but It's too fast.
 adding a "alias char-major-14 es1371" to the /etc/modutils/aliases
 seems to have fixed it. At least I don't get that error anymore. 
(I got this in reading Documentation/sound/Introduction in the kernel source tree.)

the es1371 driver gets loaded, no complaint
"es1371:  es1371 card found rev8, io=0xe000 , IRQ=11 "  and so on.
the card is in /proc/pci 


lsmod shows:
es1371  0   unused
soundcore  4  [es1371]

It seems fine until  now.(at least to me)

BUT
- there's nothing in /dev/sndstat  (the file "exists" but cat /dev/sndstat say no such device)
- there's no /proc/sound file
AND
- if I try to use the sound card the whole system freezes.( I experience it mostly with 
xmms1.2.3 )

I'd REALLY appreciate someone who uses an es1371 to tell me exactly what I'm 
missing (option something or other).
I've already  RTFMed  /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/es1371 , but there's
scarcely any info in there.

Thanks
Romain

PS: i've this sndconfig lurking around, is it useful ?

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