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Re: Further Adventures of my ESS 1888



On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:51:31PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote:
> I posted a message about my ESS 1888 on my Dell Laptop card last week,
> and am grateful for the most useful replies I got.
> 
> Aagain, According to Windows95 it is an ESS 1688 Audiodrive (although
> according to Dell it is a ESS 1888)
> I/O Range  0240 - 024F
>          0388-038B
>          0330-0331
> IRQs 5 and 9
> DMA 00 and DMA 03
> 
> So I added the following to /etc/modutils/sound after reading the
> Kernel Sound documentation:
> 
> alias char-major-14 sb
> post-install sb /sbin/modprobe "-k" "ess1888"
> options sb io=0x240 irq=5 dma=0  mpu_io=0x330 esstype=1888

This only takes effect after running update-modules, which generates
the /etc/modules.conf file that is the used by the kernel module
autoloader (kmod).

> and the following to /etc/modules
>  soundcore
>  soundlow
>  sound
>  uart401
>  sb io=0x240 dma=0 irq=5 esstype=1888

This file is used by the debian init scripts, to load modules at boot
time.  It is a different mechanism.

> all goes fine until I get to 
> insmod sb io=0x240 dma=0 irq=5 esstype=1888
>  when I get the following error:
> 
> Using /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/misc/sb.o
> /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource
> busy Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
> including invalid IO or IRQ parameters

I'm not sure if it helps, but try modprobe instead of insmod.

> Can anyone suggest what I should do next.

Did you verify that the card needs no plug-n-play setup?

Cheers,


Joost



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