problems with es1688 isa card on etch and lenny (ok with sarge)

problems with es1688 isa card on etch and lenny (ok with sarge)

[Norayr Chilingaryan]

Hello,
I have an old notebook with ISA sound card which is detected by alsaconf as
es18xx, or es1688 or sb16 and works.
The problem is appeared when I replaced Debian Sarge with Debian Etch, and
when I upgraded Etch to Lenny (i. e. with  alsa versions in that distros).
So, alsaconf detects and configures a sound driver, it works, but after
restart to have a sound I must run alsaconf again. I think something is
changed in the recent alsa distributions which probably deals with debian
configuration of isa cards.

Thank you

Norayr

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Re: problems with es1688 isa card on etch and lenny (ok with sarge)

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 6 Feb 2008 00:05:57 +0100,
Norayr Chilingaryan wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I have an old notebook with ISA sound card which is detected by alsaconf as
> es18xx, or es1688 or sb16 and works.
> The problem is appeared when I replaced Debian Sarge with Debian Etch, and
> when I upgraded Etch to Lenny (i. e. with  alsa versions in that distros).
> So, alsaconf detects and configures a sound driver, it works, but after
> restart to have a sound I must run alsaconf again. I think something is
> changed in the recent alsa distributions which probably deals with debian
> configuration of isa cards.

This is basically a problem of distribution.  The recent distros load
the sound drivers via udev.  And ISA cards aren't loaded via udev.
(ISA PnP could be loaded via udev, but there were some bugs and they
 were fixed very recently.)

You must have a way to load the module statically at boot up.  I have
no idea at all how Debian does, unfortunately.


Takashi

Re: problems with es1688 isa card on etch and lenny (ok with sarge)

[Rene Herman]

On 06-02-08 00:05, Norayr Chilingaryan wrote:

> I have an old notebook with ISA sound card which is detected by alsaconf 
> as es18xx, or es1688 or sb16 and works. The problem is appeared when I 
> replaced Debian Sarge with Debian Etch, and when I upgraded Etch to Lenny
> (i. e. with  alsa versions in that distros). So, alsaconf detects and
> configures a sound driver, it works, but after restart to have a sound I
> must run alsaconf again. I think something is changed in the recent alsa
> distributions which probably deals with debian configuration of isa
> cards.

I'm afraid you're probably better of asking somewhere Debian specific. The 
solution is probably as easy as sticking in a

alias snd-card-0 snd-es18xx

somewhere appropriate but where somewhere appropriate is and why it's 
different then before I don't know.

Rene.