xask: Deepak Mishra wrote:
> 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 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
>

OK, I've run alsaconf - but it seems that debian lenny has an outdated
alsaconf...

debian:~# alsaconf
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-es18xx snd-pcm-oss
snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-page-alloc snd-opl3-lib snd-hwdep
snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-dummy snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi
snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device.

Building card database...
Probing legacy cards.. This may take a few minutes..
Probing: es18xx : FOUND!!

Running update-modules...

************************************************** **********************
*
* The update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used!
*
************************************************** **********************

Loading driver...
Usage: /etc/init.d/alsa
{unload|reload|force-unload|force-reload|suspend|resume}
Setting default volumes...
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device

================================================== =============================

Now ALSA is ready to use.
For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.

Have a lot of fun!

And, of course:

debian:/proc/asound# cat cards
--- no soundcards ---

:-(