ES1878 doesn't work in 2.4 series kernel

ES1878 doesn't work in 2.4 series kernel

[Roach, Mark R.]

I have a compaq armada 1592DMT and have been unable to get the sound
card to work under 2.4.17 or 2.4.18 kernels (debian stock kernels or
compiled from source). 

This card is not a PNP card. modprobing sb with all the options (irq=5
dma, etc) will load the module but cating things to /dev/dsp produces no
output. If I do a dd if=/dev/dsp of=/tmp/dsp I get Sound: IRQ/DRQ config
error messages.

I have tried disabling isapnp in my kernel, I have compiled sb into the
kernel(and passing the correct parameters at boot), I have tried alsa,
all to no avail. 

With kernel 2.2.20 it works great. no problems whatsoever. Is there a
change in the 2.4 series that I am not aware of? Is this card no longer
supported?

Thanks very much for any help you can give me.

Mark Roach

Re: ES1878 doesn't work in 2.4 series kernel

[Keith Owens]

On 12 Apr 2002 09:13:40 -0500, 
"Roach, Mark R." <mrroach@uhg.net> wrote:
>I have a compaq armada 1592DMT and have been unable to get the sound
>card to work under 2.4.17 or 2.4.18 kernels (debian stock kernels or
>compiled from source). 

On my 1598DT I use sb instead of es1878 and it works.

.config
CONFIG_SOUND=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m

/etc/modules.conf
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x300

syslog.

Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
SB 3.01 detected OK (220)
ESS chip ES1878 detected

Let the music begin!

Re: ES1878 doesn't work in 2.4 series kernel

[Roach, Mark R.]

On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 20:44, Keith Owens wrote:
> On 12 Apr 2002 09:13:40 -0500, 
> "Roach, Mark R." <mrroach@uhg.net> wrote:
> >I have a compaq armada 1592DMT and have been unable to get the sound
> >card to work under 2.4.17 or 2.4.18 kernels (debian stock kernels or
> >compiled from source). 
> 
> On my 1598DT I use sb instead of es1878 and it works.


You are right, I thought I had tried under 2.4.17, but I had only tried
2.4.18. it worked like a charm on 2.4.17. Thanks for your response.