I finally found a "SoftPaq" to get to my BIOS settings in a language I could understand( Japanese is easy to find... English is a little harder). I had to install vmware (on a faster machine) so that I could run their crappy ass DOS based app... I could have probably used wine or dosemu, but I wanted vmware for something else anyhow :).. I found out I have an ESS 1869 sound card... and although the BIOS claims its PnP, it does not show up to PNPDUMP.
Once I knew what specific soundcard I had, I had a trip over to http://www.google.com/linux and found this nice little link to the "sound-list" :)
http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/sound-list/msg01966.html
After installing sndconfig from the install media, I was able to "maunally" configure my soundcard and get it to work with the OSS driver for ess1868, I am working on alsa still, I cant make it detect the card, it says that io/irq/etc are not valid module options (but thats for another list ;) )
Thanks,
Tommy McNeely
--On Sunday, December 15, 2002 12:49:21 PM -0700 Tommy McNeely <Tommy.McNeely@Sun.COM> wrote:
er... um... BIOS... oh yeah.. that is (supposed to be) on the hard drive... I need to find the floppy version so I can check that. ... will update when I get home :) --On Sunday, December 15, 2002 11:29:25 AM -0800 Steve Madonna <steve.madonna@verizon.net> wrote:what about bios settings? On Sunday 15 December 2002 10:28 am, Tommy McNeely wrote:connection refused by foreign host :p I swear I tried that :) ... I was looking on Compaq's site and saw something about ESS1688 I am on psyche with the latest kernel rpm (2.4.18-18.0?? (its not here)) and I installed alsa 0.90rc6 .. but when i modprobe snd-ess1688, it just says it cant be found.. I know its there.. it worked before... I also installed isapnptools*.rpm, and tried pnpdump, but dont find it. The search goes on ;) Tommy --On Sunday, December 15, 2002 02:18:05 AM -0800 Steve Madonna <steve.madonna@verizon.net> wrote: > check the very first (non-sponsored) link: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=Compaq+Armada+1700+sound&sourceid=mozil > la- search&start=0&start=0 > > On Sunday 15 December 2002 12:35 am, Tommy McNeely wrote: >> I installed psyche to my ancient compaq laptop, and it appears to run >> OK... (once I got out of gnome) .. however, I cant get sound to >> work... >> >> redhat-config-soundcard just reports there are no sound cards... >> lspci would seem to verify that.. maybe its an isa card?? I cant find >> isapnpdump (but I didnt do a full install) ... >> >> Does anyone know what kind of soundcard it is, and if its supported >> by OSS or if I need ALSA or something else?? it used to work in linux >> (I'm thinkin 6.x days?) >> >> Tommy > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list-- Tommy McNeely -- Tommy.McNeely@Sun.COM Sun Microsystems - IT Ops - Broomfield Campus Support Phone: x50888 / 303-464-4888 -- Fax: 720-566-3168 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
-- Tommy McNeely -- Tommy.McNeely@Sun.COM Sun Microsystems - IT Ops - Broomfield Campus Support Phone: x50888 / 303-464-4888 -- Fax: 720-566-3168 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
