Howto fix Compaq presario 1245 sound
Hello everybody,
I'm trying to get sound working on a Compaq presario 1245 laptop;
I found this laptop has a Ess 1869, ISA sound card; I don't know exactly
what the ISA thing means but...
I found a reference to sndconfig as a tool to get sound working; In fact
it does so - I get to hear the test sound of the tool, but the next time
after the laptop is rebooted, sound is gone!
I'm using the soundblaster module with the options io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1;
sndconfig seems to write in /etc/modutils without doing an
update-modules - but when I do this the result is the same: no sound...
and sndconfig refuses to work when "something" is configured allready. ?
I found the program lspci is supposed to tell usefull information -
unfortunately I don't know what any of this means (though it confirms
there is something ISA in there)
00:00.0 Host bridge: OPTi Inc. 82C701 [FireStar Plus] (rev 32)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: OPTi Inc. 82C700 (rev 31)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01)
00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01)
00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2160
[MagicGraph 128XD] (rev 01)
00:13.0 USB Controller: OPTi Inc. 82C861 (rev 10)
00:14.0 IDE interface: OPTi Inc. 82C825 [Firebridge 2] (rev 30)
Can anybody tell me how to ensure the sndconfig configurations aren't
lost ? Or is there an easier tool to use ?
Please help I can't find anything helpfull on the net...
Thanks for your help,
Joris
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