Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 50857
Compaq 1655 (ES1868) sound card failure
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:22:19 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) Description of problem: Cannot configure my ES1868 soundcard on my Compaq 1655 laptop. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start sndconfig 2.choose ES1868 AudioDrive 3.Set I/O Port = 0x220 IRQ = 7 DMA = 0 MPU I/O = 0x330 (actually any combination fails) Actual Results: displays "An error occured opening /dev/audio". Expected Results: correct soundcard configuration Additional info: I have tried several drivers (i.e. Sound Blasters) to no avail. I have this same problem on RH 7.1 before I loaded roswell (both were fresh installs). I have no /etc/isapnp.conf file and no /proc/isapnp file. Below are my /etc/modules.conf and sound file alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias sound-slot-0 sb post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || : pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || : options sound dmabuf=1 alias synth0 opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=0 mpu_io=0x330 # THIS FILE IS WRITTEN BY SNDCONFIG # PLEASE USE SNDCONFIG TO MODIFY # TO CHANGE THIS FILE! # There should be no spaces at the start of a line # or around the '=' sign CARDTYPE=ESS1868
What is the card set to in the BIOS?
My soundcard configuration in the BIOS is: Base I/O address : 220-22F Interrupt: IRQ 5 DMA channel: DMA 1 DMA channel: DMA 0 FM I/O address 388-38B MPU I/O address 330-331 I have also tried all possible combinations using all values.
If PnP support is enabled in the kernel, then a card such as this *should* work "out of the box" by just loading the driver module. At least it Works For Me[tm] with a non-PnP SB at work, and a PnP ES1869 at home, and it's the same driver (sb). All I have in modules.conf is: alias sound-slot-0 sb alias synth0 opl3 options opl3 io=0x0388 The synth driver does seem to need I/O specified, but the SB driver picks up without any problem.
I will try changing my modules.conf; however, I did not have any problems with this in any pre RH7.1 distros. It worked "out of the box" in 7.0 and 6.2. This is driving me crazy.
I manually changed my modules.conf from IRQ7 to IRQ5 and it now works. The problem is that sndconfig fails when trying to use the proper IRQ which is 5. Why is this, and can this be fixed in the next version of sndconfig?
What do you get if you cat /proc/isapnp?
Oops, never mind. sndconfig *should* work fine if you enter those settings; do you have any sound apps running when you start sndconfig?
Not that I am aware of., In fact no, because I booted without graphical bootup and tried sndconfig and it still gave the previous results.
sndconfig is no longer developed, and this release has reached end-of-life. Closing out old bugs.