On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 19:48, Bazza wrote: > After a non-response to my previous post about the ESS > 1688 audiodrive card, I'm just wondering if ANYONE > actually still uses the ISA version of the card with > the ALSA drivers? And if so, could you send me a copy > of you modules.conf files and any other configuration > information you might have, i.e. IRQ's Addresses etc.
Are you getting anything using the OSS drivers at all? I think they used to run under the stock SoundBlaster code, which even had an "esstype" option at one point to specify either a 688 or 1688. If you can't get it going under either, it may be a resource thing. I don't have one in anything right now, but I set up a LOT of these bastards when I worked in a computer shop back in '95-'96 or so - do you know if it's a Plug and Play capable card or not? The early PNP models were HELL to get stable at times. I loved the old ones that were just "set and forget". I vaguely recall being able to turn PNP off on some models - if you can find a way to do that, it might help. The resources (as I recall) were almost invariably io 0x220, irq 5, dma 1 and 5 and synth at 0x300 OR 0x330 - I think the latter, but I'm a bit fuzzy since it's been a while. If it's a PNP card, you might need to set up exclusions in your BIOS to make sure IRQ 5 never gets assigned to anything else. The manufacturers of the ones I used to get claimed that PNP worked, but I never saw many of those cards willing to give up that IRQ and there we confilcts everywhere all the time. Hell, PNP on ISA was always a pain in the ass. I'm so glad I never see that bus any more ... Anyway, feel free to mail me, but I'm not sure how much help I can be - but I will see if I've still got one in a drawer somewhere and drop it in an old machine. Mike. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
