Attempts on the ESS-1869 card

Attempts on the ESS-1869 card

[Tom Watson]

Ah, a new card to try...
This time it is an Ensonic ESS-1869 that is built into an older Compaq
laptop (Armada 3500).  When I put in the "setup" disk, it reports that
the sound card has the following I/O stuff:
IRQ 5
DMA 1
DMA 5
ports at 0x0220 thru 0x022F   (16 ports)
ports at 0x0388 thru 0x038B   (4 ports)
ports at 0x0330 thru 0x0331   (2 ports)
some other port range at 0x0250 thru 0x0257   (8 ports).

In reading the driver I see that "port" reserves 16, "fm_port" reserves
4, and "mpu_port" reserves 2.

Being a "nice guy" I attempt to load the module with insmod, and the
file "modules.conf" has:
...
alias snd-card-0 snd-es18xx
options snd-es18xx id="first" enable=1 dma1=1 dma2=5 irq=5 port=0x220 \
   fm_port=0x338 mpu_port=0x330
...

But all is not well as I get an error upon doing an insmod:
.../es18xx.c:2256: ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device
busy.

Am I missing something simple to get this thing working??  From the
look of things, I should have all the stuff working.  I even attempted
to try an ISAPNP, but that didn't appear to work either.

Any better ideas from the group.

...Thanks

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Tom Watson
tsw@johana.com

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Re: Attempts on the ESS-1869 card

[Peter Antypas]

> IRQ 5
> DMA 1
> DMA 5
> ports at 0x0220 thru 0x022F   (16 ports)
> ports at 0x0388 thru 0x038B   (4 ports)
> ports at 0x0330 thru 0x0331   (2 ports)
> some other port range at 0x0250 thru 0x0257   (8 ports).
> 
> In reading the driver I see that "port" reserves 16, "fm_port" reserves
> 4, and "mpu_port" reserves 2.
> 
> Being a "nice guy" I attempt to load the module with insmod, and the
> file "modules.conf" has:
> ...
> alias snd-card-0 snd-es18xx
> options snd-es18xx id="first" enable=1 dma1=1 dma2=5 irq=5 port=0x220 \
>    fm_port=0x338 mpu_port=0x330

Is that a misspelling ? 0x388 vs 0x338???




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Re: Attempts on the ESS-1869 card

[James Courtier-Dutton]

Looks like a Sound Blaster compatible.
Try
modprobe snd-sb16 enable=1 isapnp=0 port=0x0220 mpu_port=0x330 irq=5 
dma8=1 dma16=5

Cheers
James


Tom Watson wrote:
> Ah, a new card to try...
> This time it is an Ensonic ESS-1869 that is built into an older Compaq
> laptop (Armada 3500).  When I put in the "setup" disk, it reports that
> the sound card has the following I/O stuff:
> IRQ 5
> DMA 1
> DMA 5
> ports at 0x0220 thru 0x022F   (16 ports)
> ports at 0x0388 thru 0x038B   (4 ports)
> ports at 0x0330 thru 0x0331   (2 ports)
> some other port range at 0x0250 thru 0x0257   (8 ports).
> 
> In reading the driver I see that "port" reserves 16, "fm_port" reserves
> 4, and "mpu_port" reserves 2.
> 
> Being a "nice guy" I attempt to load the module with insmod, and the
> file "modules.conf" has:
> ...
> alias snd-card-0 snd-es18xx
> options snd-es18xx id="first" enable=1 dma1=1 dma2=5 irq=5 port=0x220 \
>    fm_port=0x338 mpu_port=0x330
> ...
> 
> But all is not well as I get an error upon doing an insmod:
> .../es18xx.c:2256: ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device
> busy.
> 
> Am I missing something simple to get this thing working??  From the
> look of things, I should have all the stuff working.  I even attempted
> to try an ISAPNP, but that didn't appear to work either.
> 
> Any better ideas from the group.
> 
> ...Thanks
> 
> =====



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Re: Attempts on the ESS-1869 card

[Tom Watson]

The documentation seems to imply sound blaster compatable as well.  So
I tried that driver, as suggested (thanks!) and got a similar result:
"...snd-sb16.o: init_module: No such device"
"Hint..."

Oh, well.  Any new ideas??  Does anyone have experience with this
laptop and its sound card??

...Thanks again
--- James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Looks like a Sound Blaster compatible.
> Try
> modprobe snd-sb16 enable=1 isapnp=0 port=0x0220 mpu_port=0x330 irq=5 
> dma8=1 dma16=5
> 
> Cheers
> James
> 
> 
> Tom Watson wrote:
> > Ah, a new card to try...
> > This time it is an Ensonic ESS-1869 that is built into an older
> Compaq
> > laptop (Armada 3500).  When I put in the "setup" disk, it reports
> that
> > the sound card has the following I/O stuff:
> > IRQ 5
> > DMA 1
> > DMA 5
> > ports at 0x0220 thru 0x022F   (16 ports)
> > ports at 0x0388 thru 0x038B   (4 ports)
> > ports at 0x0330 thru 0x0331   (2 ports)
> > some other port range at 0x0250 thru 0x0257   (8 ports).
> > 
> > In reading the driver I see that "port" reserves 16, "fm_port"
> reserves
> > 4, and "mpu_port" reserves 2.
> > 
> > Being a "nice guy" I attempt to load the module with insmod, and
> the
> > file "modules.conf" has:
> > ...
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-es18xx
> > options snd-es18xx id="first" enable=1 dma1=1 dma2=5 irq=5
> port=0x220 \
> >    fm_port=0x338 mpu_port=0x330
> > ...
> > 
> > But all is not well as I get an error upon doing an insmod:
> > .../es18xx.c:2256: ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or
> device
> > busy.
> > 
> > Am I missing something simple to get this thing working??  From the
> > look of things, I should have all the stuff working.  I even
> attempted
> > to try an ISAPNP, but that didn't appear to work either.
> > 
> > Any better ideas from the group.
> > 
> > ...Thanks
> > 
> > =====


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tsw@johana.com

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