Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

[Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie <e.fontaine-lavoie@sympatico.ca>]

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information I could find was outdated.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...'". 

Here is a part of the lsmod

snd_sscape             17184  0
snd_cs4231_lib         28128  1 snd_sscape
snd_pcm                98440  1 snd_cs4231_lib
snd_timer              25924  2 snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         10120  3 snd_sscape,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep               9668  1 snd_sscape
snd_mpu401_uart         8128  1 snd_sscape
snd_rawmidi            25224  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          9004  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    57828  8 
snd_sscape,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore              10336  1 snd

Also, after doing a lot of things, I heard some scrachy sounds but this 
was a few weeks ago.

I don't know if my webcam's microphone interfere with the sound card.

I was thinking about getting a newer card but I want to give a try with 
this one before doing so.

Thanks in advance.

Etienne


Adam Aube wrote:

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> Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie wrote:
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> > 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.
> >    
>
>  
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> > 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)
> >    
>
>  
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> > 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...'"
> >    
>
> Install the alsa-utils package, then use alsaconf to configure your sound.
>
> Adam
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