stan wrote, on 10/07/08 09:07: > Arthur Marsh wrote: >> Hi, I am having trouble getting sound working in an old Compaq Armada >> 1750 with an ESS AudioDrive ES1869. >> >> Even when it's working (verified by aplay some-sound.wav), KDE 3.5.9 >> sound doesn't always work )-:. >> >> By running alsaconf, I get: >> >> es18xx-pnpbios 00:0c: disabled >> >> followed by >> >> es18xx-pnpbios 00:0c: activated >> >> at the end of the process. >> >> Attached are a working and non-working configurations from alsa-info.sh >> >> What appears to be needed is a way to forcing the sound chip into a >> known working start upon start-up. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions? >> >> Running Debian unstable with 2.6.26-rc9 kernel from >> kernel-archive.buildserver.net >> >> Arthur. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This is kind of a kludge/workaround but until you can figure out how to > set this up properly through configuration options, couldn't you just > put the alsaconf command above into your /etc/rc.local file so it runs > everytime you start the computer and leaves your card in activated state? How does one run alsaconf in non-interactive mode? I had some success in KDE by forcing 8-bit mode in the control centre, after finding that aplay worked on 8-bit samples but not 16-bit samples. Regards, Arthur. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
