[[I also posted this message to gmane.linux.sound, but since that newsgroup seems pretty dead, I'm also posting it here]]
Linux is unable to see my "sound card" I'm running Debian 3.1, "Sarge" on an old Compaq Presario 5220. The so-called "sound card" is one of those damnable integrated ES1869 audio controllers rather than a real sound card. Needless to say, I've got sound under WiNdOwS/MSDOG, but Linux isn't able to even see that the sound card is there. Here is what I've tried, thus far: *: pnpdump can't see a thing, so I have nothing to feed to isapnp *: discover can't see a soundcard, but I do get 5 lines of: "unknown unknown" *: dmesg shows nothing useful *: "modprobe sb <various parameters>" gives me "Error inserting sb (/lib/.../sb.ko): No such device" *: "modprobe snd-es18xx <various parameters>" gives me "Error inserting sb (/lib/.../snd-es18xx.ko): No such device" *: Hell, in desparation, I even ran a for loop on all the .ko files under the /lib/modules/.../sound/ subdirectory in the hopes that something would work. nothing worked *: no such file as /dev/sndstat *: alsaconf didn't find a sound card *: From what I can tell, nothing of any use in the output of hwinfo *: lspci... nope *: modinfo soundcore... yup, I have the soundcore module loaded One final note. I used wine to run the MSDOG esscfg.exe command with the same parameters that I have in my autoexec.bat file from that side of the computer. The next time I entered KDE, I had a popup message telling me that it wasn't able to detect a sound card. Now, I had disabled this popup window before, so I suspect that my running esscfg.exe under wine might have convinced something that something resembling a soundcard might need to be checked again. Can anyone offer me any further advice. I know that since this *is* an integrated audio controller, there really is no soundcard, but I figure that since WiNdOwS/MSDOG can see the thing, I should be able to convince Linux to see it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
