On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:57:53PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote: > I am having great problems with configuring my Dell Laptop's sound > card.
Perhaps it needs plug-n-play to assign resources to it. > According to Windows95 it is an ESS 1688 Audiodrive > I/O Range 0240 - 024F > 0388-038B > 0330-0331 > IRQs 5 and 9 > DMA 00 and DMA 03 > > I have tried configuring sound into the kernel to no effect. > > I have tried the commercial OSS package with no sucess. It claims not > to be able to compile soundcore properly. I am using kernel > 2.2.19pre17. > > I have tried installing ALSA with no success. > > Can anyone help me based on the above information If it is a plug-n-play problem, install the isapnptools package, read /usr/share/doc/isapnptools/*. Run pnpdump, edit the output and save it as /etc/isapnp.conf, then run "isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf". Then modprobe your sound driver with the correct options. Use "modinfo -p modulename" to see the list of supported options. When you have found the right configuration, create a file /etc/modutils/local, in which you put the lines: alias char-major-14 modulename options modulename moduleoptions Then run update-modules. Check that /etc/modules.conf now contains the above lines. Cheers, Joost
