Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card
hurdboy@hurdboy.isa-geek.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:29:51PM -0500, Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie wrote:
I'm sorry. Here it is again in plain text
I'm running Sarge with an old Ensoniq Sounscape Elite ISA card. I read
a lot during the past few month to get this card working but everything
I tried didn't work so far. It's a pretty old card and all the
information I could find was outdated. One thing I know is that I had
sound with this card on Redhat (can't remember the version but it was in
1998!). The card is not discovered by the system because I got nothing
when I try the isapnp tool. I know the dma, irq, etc. but it didn't
work when I entered them as options in the alsa file in
/etc/modutil/alsa (I did an "update-modules" after). When I start alsa
(/etc/init.d/alsa start), I got this message:"Starting
ALSA.../etc/init.d/alsa: Error: alsactl restore failed with message
'alsactl: load_state:1134: No soundcards found...'".
None of these cards is really PnP. The Rev3 of this card has a flash
rom chip to store settings, but the irq, dma, and io port can only be
changed with a DOS utility. The Rev1 cards do not have the chip, and
must be _initialized_ in DOS, then warm-booted into any other OS to
work. This was a real pain, because most of the cards had a Matshushima
CD-ROM connector on-board. If the card wasn't initialized before you
booted into another OS (I used it with Linux, OS/2, and NT 3.5), not
only did your card not work, your cdrom didn't work, either. The
sequence was.....boot dos, see config.sys load the driver, and
autoexec.bat kick off the driver program, hit ctrl-alt-delete, and boot
into the other OS.
Thank god for OS/2's boot manager back in those days.
Also, after doing a lot of things, I heard some scrachy sounds but this
was a few weeks ago.
Classic behavior of hitting upon the right ports, but not having the
card properly initialized. I used to have this problem with OS/2 all
the time. I'm guessing, unfortunately, that you've got a Rev1 card,
because iirc, the Rev3 cards don't have this behavior (you'll have to
forgive any memory lapses here, I sold this card like eight years ago
after endless frustration with it).
I don't know if my webcam's microphone interfere with the sound card.
Seriously doubt it. Those were some messed up cards. If you look
closely, you'll see an 8Mhz motorola 68000 processor on the board,
probably. That should give you an indication of how weird the hardware
is.
I was thinking about getting a newer card but I want to give a try with
this one before doing so.
Buy a SB-Live card. They're cheap now, and deliver better sound than
any ISA card could ever hope to. The SoundScape was pretty cool at the
time, but its day is long past. I had fun with it at first, but when
computers moved past DOS, it left a good amount of hardware behind.
--
Sean Bergeron, hurdboy@hurdboy.isa-geek.com
After a few months of experiencing things, I just did what Sean told me
and I got a SB live for 30$. I don't know if I mess up the driver with
my experiences with the Soundscape. I use module-assistant to build the
alsa driver and I have errors:
"/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/pcm_native.c:3053: error:
│ redefinition of `snd_pcm_mmap_data_open'
│ /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/include/sound/pcm.h:948:
error:
│ `snd_pcm_mmap_data_open' previously defined here
│ /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/pcm_native.c:3059:
error:
│ redefinition of `snd_pcm_mmap_data_close'
│ /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/include/sound/pcm.h:954:
error:
│ `snd_pcm_mmap_data_close' previously defined here
│ make[6]: ***
[/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/kbuild/../acore/pcm_native.o]
│ Error 1
│ make[5]: ***
[/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/kbuild/../acore] Error 2
│ make[4]: ***
[_module_/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/kbuild] Error 2
│ make[3]: *** [modules] Error 2
I also tried to use the original alsa driver but the modprobe command
fails "modprobe snd-emu10k1;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe
snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss
WARNING: Error inserting snd
(/lib/modules/2.6.7-1-686/updates/alsa/acore/snd.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting snd_hwdep
(/lib/modules/2.6.7-1-686/updates/alsa/acore/snd-hwdep.ko): Invalid
module format
The card is seen with the lspci command and I can use Alsaconf but I got
Running update-modules...
Loading driver...
WARNING: Error inserting snd_page_alloc
(/lib/modules/2.6.7-1-686/updates/alsa/acore/snd-page-alloc.ko): Invalid
module format
WARNING: Error inserting snd
(/lib/modules/2.6.7-1-686/updates/alsa/acore/snd.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting snd_ac97_codec
(/lib/modules/2.6.7-1-686/updates/alsa/pci/ac97/snd-ac97-codec.ko):
Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
WARNING: Error inserting snd_timer
(/lib/modules/2.6.7-1-686/updates/alsa/acore/snd-timer.ko): Invalid
module format
WARNING: Error inserting snd_pcm
(/lib/modules/2.6.7-1-686/updates/alsa/acore/snd-pcm.ko): Invalid module
format
FATAL: Error inserting snd_audigyls
(/lib/modules/2.6.7-1-686/updates/alsa/pci/emu10k1/snd-audigyls.ko):
Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
Setting default volumes...
===============================================================================
Now ALSA is ready to use.
For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.
Have a lot of fun!
I have a lot of fun indeed, but I'm getting really tired and my
girlfriend is getting really bored!
Thanks!
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