On Mar 27, 5:00 pm, joseph lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well i have been working on getting an old compaq > armada 7770dmt up and running with debian etch 4.0r2. > everything works good, only i cannot get alsa to find > the sound card at boot, sound card is a ess-1878. > > added the sound module to /boot/modules but that > didn't seem to help, checked alsa manpage and that > allowed me to check the right mod but suggested adding > the mod to /boot/modules which didn't help. any other > suggestions.
Joseph, This might not help too much, but I had sound problems on a Compaq Armada 7400, which has the ESS 1789 sound card. This was under FreeBSD, and I could not get any sound until I explictly set the device characteristics, viz: device sbc0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15 I'm not sure how one does the equivalent on Debian, but trying it may be worth a punt. -mark
