On Jul 23, 4:33 am, Captain Dondo <y...@NsOeSiPnAeMr.com> wrote:
> I have an old Compaq Armada 1700 laptop. I've got everything working fine
> except for sound.
>
> The laptop has the following card:
>
> debian:/proc/asound# cat cards
> 0 [ES1869 ]: ES1869 - ESS AudioDrive ES1869
> ESS AudioDrive ES1869 at 0x220, irq 5, dma1 1, dma2 5
>
> It's id'd correctly AFAICT from reading the web on this laptop. I'm also
> getting the "white noise" problem - whenever anything tries to play all I
> get is white noise.
>
> If I'm using an oss-based player (eg. xmms) the player acts as though it's
> playing - the bar is moving, the eq bars are hopping - but all I have is
> white noise.
>
> If I'm using an alsa-based player (eg. alsaplayer) the player doesn't play
> - the time isn't moving and nothing else seems to be happening.
>
> In both cases I get white noise from the speakers.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Yan

It seems OSS and alsa are'nt using the right drivers.
I had an old ESS 1688 audio drive PC card,
I needed to the utility 'alsaconf' to tweak its setting, if you dont
know some of the setting go to the windows control panel -> system->
devices - > ESS - >properties

If you dont have 'alsaconf' by default, you can find it somewhere on
http://www.alsa-project.org