No sound with CT5880 on board

[f1k@gmx.de]

Hi,

I have a problem with my onboard sound chip CT5880 on a Gigabye GA7ZXR.

I have Debian 2.2r2. When I installed it I selected the modules es1371 and
soundcore. Then I installed alsaconf and other alsa packages and configured
the module 0x10 Ensoniq-AudioPCI_ES1371 in alsaconf. Then i did update-modules.
Here is the resulting section in /etc/modules.conf :


### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa
 
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 0.4.2 ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm1-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm1-oss
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660
snd_device_gid=29 snd_device_uid=0
options snd-card-ens1371 snd_index=1 snd_id=CARD_1 snd_dac1_frame_size=4
snd_dac2_frame_size=4 snd_adc_frame_size=4
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
 
### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/alsa       


I choose frame_size 4 because I did'nt know better. What should I choose
here?


lsmod says among others(there are no other sound related modules):

es1371		0 (unused)
soundcore	0 [es1371]


The only thing in /etc/modules is:

es1371


I'm getting the following boot messages (output from dmesg):

es1371: version v0.22 time 19:13:40 Nov 18 2000
es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x03
es1371: found es1371 rev 3 at io 0xd800 irq 10
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
es1371: codec vendor     (0x000000) revision 0 (0x00)
es1371: codec features none
es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement   


and later shortly before Starting kdm:

Starting sound driver: snd-card-ens1371 failed.


The soundchip is according to the boot messages the only device on  IRQ 10.


amixer says:

The alsa sound driver was not detected on this system.


alsaplayer says:

alsaplayer 0.99....
alsaplayer: error accessing dac


xmms-1.0.1 (OSS output) freezes when I want to open an audio file.

play (sox) doesn't make an error message, instead it pretends it's playing,
but I can't hear anything. 


I did that all as root.


I'm mostly interested in the SPDIF output. Line out and SPDIF out are
sharing the same output jack. Any idea how I can switch between analog and digital
out once I get sound out of it?

Any help is much appreciated.

Robert

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