Re: Sound

[mike polniak <mikpolniak@adelphia.net>]

Russ Pitman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:23:39PM -0500, T. Green wrote:
> > newbie to debian
> > I have ensoniq audio PCI  model (ES1371) sound card, An  I can't get it
> > to make a sound.
> > Anyone know what  is needed to get the card to produce sound.
> > Tkank you
> > 
> Assuming that you are running the kernel as installed from Potato cd's
> you need to create an /etc/modutils/sndconfig file that contains:
> 
> alias sound-slot-0 es1371
> options sound dmabuf=1
> alias midi opl3
> options opl3 io=0x388
> options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330
> 
> Then run 'update-modules' which should fix /etc/modules.conf painlessly.
> Sound should then work.
> 
> Actually if you have the program sndconfig (I think only in Woody and Sid)
> that is supposed to do all this for you but it never has worked for me up to
> yesterdays upgrades to both of them. Thats not true  of the Mandrake 7
> version.
> 
> You may have to do a kernel recompile if it is not the standard issue but as
> i recall it has all the modules in creation already set.
> 
	
	You can also just add the line es1371 to /etc/modules and it will be
loaded at boot-up. 
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