Re: ESS ES1868 sound card not working after update to Etch

[Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com>]

On 04/22/2007 05:25 AM, Martin Kuettler wrote:
> That is, it doesn't work with kernel 2.6.18-4-686, but booting the old kernel 2.6.8-2-686 from Sarge gets sound working.
> 
> Booting into 2.6.18 gives:
> sb: PnP: Found Card Named = "ESS ES1868 Plug and Play AudioDrive", Card PnP id = ESS1868, Device PnP id = ESS1868
> sb: PnP:      Detected at: io=0x220, irq=5, dma=1, dma16=0
> sb: dsp reset failed.
> sb: Failed DSP Detect.
> 
> While the old 2.6.8 kernel has:
> sb: PnP: Found Card Named = "ESS ES1868 Plug and Play AudioDrive", Card PnP id = ESS1868, Device PnP id = ESS1868
> sb: PnP:      Detected at: io=0x220, irq=5, dma=1, dma16=0
> SB 3.01 detected OK (220)
> ESS chip ES1868 detected
> sb: Turning on MPU
> sb: Init: Done
> 
> alsaconf does find some soundcards, but configuring them doesn't work either.
> 
> Any pointers what do to here?
> 
> Martin

Martin,

I have the same card and finally solved the problems.

See my post to the list:

	Subject: Re: Soundcard issues-RESOLVED
	Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007


First, remove sb from /etc/modules.  Replace it with snd-es18xx (for
this card).  Run alsaconf and alsactl.  You may also want to read my
post from yesterday:

	Subject: SOLVED Re: Sound mixing: Help configure dmix for flash, xmms,
totem or make default.
	Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:24:20 -0400

Let us know how this works out.

Regards,
Ralph