On 07/31/2007 05:44 AM, Troy Heidner wrote: > I'm new to the list here, and I'm fairly new to linux as well. I have > an older Gateway Solo 5150 laptop computer that I'm trying to run Fedora > Core 6 on. It's a PII-400 with 288MB of RAM. I have gotten nearly > EVERYTHING working splendidly with the exception of sound. I know that > it is possible because I have found two accounts of others successfully > using Linux with sound on this exact same model on the web. But there > was no details on how to get it done. I have loaded Windows on this > machine in the past so I could determine from there that the sound card > installed is an ESS 1879. FC6 won't recognize it out of the box. I > have found that ALSA is supposed to support drivers for it, but I don't > know how to get them loaded. The trouble is probably as simple as the snd-es18xx driver (which is the one to try) not knowing it should be driving your sound chip. Nothing good happens if you do "modprobe snd-es18xx" (as root)? I expect your chip will announce itself via PNPBIOS. If you do a: $ cat /sys/bus/pnp/devices/00:*/id is there perhaps a ES1979 in the list? (current driver would work if it were ES1969). Rene. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
