A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > i did the cat /proc/pci step and it returned: > > "Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq AudioPCI (rev 0). Slow devsel. > IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=96. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=12" > > i tried to compile in the es1371 driver with sound support into the > kernel, but didn't detect my sound card irq.
Through the wonders of Plug-N-Play that means you don't have a sound card with the es1371 chipset. > then i compiled in the es1370 driver, dmesg returned: > > "es1370: version v0.31 time 21:10:51 Jul 15 2000 > es1370: found adapter at io 0xfcc0 irq 10 > ex1370: features: joystick off, line in, mic impedance 0" The sound driver loaded correctly. > but when i tried to check with cat /dev/sndstat it said > "cat:/dev/sndstat: no such device" which according to the how-to means > the sound driver isn't loaded or linked into the kernel. The ability to read from /dev/sndstat isn't reliable - the es1371 driver does the same on my computer, and sound works fine (I'm listening to mp3s now). The HOW-TOs become out-of-date very easily. > also theres a strange line at the end of dmesg that says "cat uses > obsolete /proc/pci interface" i wonder if that has anything to do with > anything. The kernel message was originally meant to mean that the file /proc/pci would go away during the next development series. It is perfectly safe to ignore that message. > does anyone know how to fix this. and oh im using the > kernel-source2.1.15 package currently in the unstable branch of some > debian mirror. Nothing to fix, unless you're not getting any sound out of the sound card... > there is another strange error that when i compile the kernel into a > zImage it crashes during bootup when i choose a video mode but > compiled into a bzImage the video mode selection works fine. What messages did it give you during bootup? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstien
