Re: Sound card interrupt problem (ESS ES1878)

2000-12-13 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
All cool... we have sound and we are happy. What I ended up doing was compiling the sound directly into the kernel, using the Sb option on IRQ 5. Other than that, the defaults worked perfectly. Thanks to everyone who contributed. Cheers Tiarnan -- Tiarnán Ó Corráin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Part

Re: Sound card interrupt problem (ESS ES1878)

2000-12-12 Thread D-Man
Playing CD is different than playing other sounds. The cd drive sends the audio directly to the sound card with no software intervention. (I had a cd playing after the system had shutdown). I have an ESS1869 that works just fine; that is once I fixed the IRQ (or was it the DMA channel?). I ha

Re: Sound card interrupt problem (ESS ES1878)

2000-12-12 Thread Michael Sauer
> Sound initialization started > ESS chip ES1878 detected > ESS1688: Invalid IRQ 8 > sb: Interrupt test on IRQ8 failed - Probable IRQ conflict > at 0x220 irq 8 dma 1,5 > Sound initialization complete > > Does anyone have any ways of changing the IRQ and DMA settings > without recompiling the kern

Sound card interrupt problem (ESS ES1878)

2000-12-12 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hello... I recently installed Debian on a Compaq Armada 7770DMT laptop with an ES 1878 sound card. I've compiled support for the Soundblaster into the kernel (2.2.17), which allows me to play audio cds, but gives a weird echo effect when I try to play wave files using 'play'. I've compiled the ke