sound config? debian + es1868

[PeterP]

Trying to get my sound card working it's an es1868 and the os is deb potato (2.2r2).I've been playing around with this for days now & can't find anything that helps...I'm using a module called sb (via82Cxxxx) because it's the only one I've found which works at all, but...while the cd player works fine, no other sound works at all. Well, that's not quite true, if I use gnome control centre to try out the 'sounds for events' thing it plays the sounds with a major echo/reverb effect, repeating them several times in decreasing pitch. Anyway, what I need to know is does anyone know of a module which will work better for this card (sorry, I dont know what the card is -only the chip-) which the system recognises as an SB 3.01? Or, can anyone tell me how I can configure the sb module for my card in Debian? I was told to try 'insmod sb irq=5 io=220' but that only gives me a message saying this module already exists. There is nothing in /etc/isapnp.conf which relates to the sound settings at all (how do I copy the pnpdump output to this file?). Too many more questions. I've read so much that I feel more lost than when I starterd.
help
Peter.

[Lorithar]

You need to alias your sound services ..


check /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog
if you see a lot of unable to locate sound service x-x-x

(next time I'm gonna read the full post off the git go)

if the modules loaded, they found the card. Check also dmesg|more for statements about the sb module (I use dmesg|grep -i 'sb:' --however your system may log the messages differently) I suspect you need to work on your sound alases, /etc/modules.conf contains aliases for the sound-services what you may need to do is trap the messages in /var/log/syslog and add aliases in /etc/modules.conf to point the sound-service-x-x-x to sb .

If the gnome config can play the sounds, your card is working and the module is pointed at the correct io/dma/dma16/ etc ... you need only get the apps pointed that way to.

[ 30 May 2001: Message edited by: Lorithar ]

[PeterP]

Thanks v much, Lorithar, I'll work on that and get back to you...let you know what happens. Cheers,
Peter.

[PeterP]

Hmmm, I'm not sure at all about this. There's nothing in /etc/modules.conf about sound at all and I'm not sure what I should alias to. But, aside from that, the syslog tells me that it's failing to set up sound when probing on irq 7. As sb is on irq 5 this would make sense. How do I tell it to use irq 5 in Debian...there's no sndconfig?

[PeterP]

OK,...here's another point. I found that running afterstep and activating its sound module does give me sounds. Little ones anyway; that is, short sounds work fine but anything longer than about a second gets chopped up and played in segments as I described earlier. I seem to recall another post describing something like this and ascribing it to things f'ing up when cpu usage was too high. Don't recall any answers though. Has anyone any thoughts? Please?
Peter.
ps. how old does a post have to be before no-one reads it at all? If this has been up for a few days without getting any (more) replys when should I stop bothering to check it out daily? just a thought. cheers.

[PeterP]

About the irq, the sounboard is on irq 5 in win & works fine but linux definitely has it pegged for irq 7. What is this about?