Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

[Didier Malenfant <ledids@home.com>]

Sorry if this is a re-post, I'm not sure the first one went through
since I wasn't subscribed on the list.

I've installed Debian 2.2r2 on a cheap Powerspec 8250 computer which
comes with a Soundblaster PCI 128 sound card (ES1371 chip).

I can't get xmms to work, after adding my username to the audio group
the mp3 file starts playing and stops immediately.

After a little bit of investigation I came up with the following:

The card seems detected (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 0xc800 irq 5
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
es1371: codec vendor     (0x000000) revision 0 (0x00)
es1371: codec features none
es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement

The modules are loaded (lsmod):

Module                  Size  Used by
nls_cp437               3880   1  (autoclean)
serial                 19640   0  (autoclean)
mousedev                3600   0  (unused)
usbmouse                1624   0  (unused)
usbcore                41804   0  [usbmouse]
input                   2688   0  [mousedev usbmouse]
rtl8139                11144   1 
sound                  56364   0  (unused)
soundlow                 368   0  [sound]
es1371                 26544   0 
soundcore               2440   7  [sound es1371]
vfat                    9408   0  (unused)
ntfs                   35012   1 
nfs                    43820   1 
lockd                  41720   1  [nfs]
sunrpc                 55452   1  [nfs lockd]
unix                   11336 227  (autoclean)

but /dev/sndstat is empty:

OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux blue 2.2.18pre21 #1 Sat Nov 18 18:47:15 EST 2000 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers: 

Card config: 

Audio devices:

Synth devices:

Midi devices:

Timers:
0: System clock

Mixers:



Any ideas why /dev/sndstat comes up empty, or any pointers?

Thanks,
-D