more compaq 4000 / linux questions.

more compaq 4000 / linux questions.

[Richard Dawson]

As long as I have asked one question about getting this Compaq deskpro 
4000 (5200MMX) computer with its 200 MHz pentium processor, I might as 
well go whole-hog and try to get everything working.

Mandrake 9.1 didn't seem to find the ESS 1868 based. Compaq sound card. 
 The Compaq card is a quasi-ISA card.  There is a slightly extended ISA 
socket on the board (labeled Compaq) in which it is installed.  I 
removed that card, put a "vanilla" sound card in the adjacent ISA slot, 
and rebooted.  The Mandrake Control Center (MDC) Hardware tab doesn't 
seem to find it either.

It does find The PCI video card.

It finds two things that it classifies as "unknown/others":  (1) 56K 
FaxModem Model 5610 --this is the U.S. Robotics "hardware" modem.  Why, 
one might ask, does it say it is unknown when it calls it by name and, 
with a serial port assigned and a link installed, is able to use it? 
 (2) VT82C586/A/B PCI to ISA (Apollo VP)  This on bus 1106:586 at 
location 0:14:0.

It finds one thing it classifies as "(E)IDE/ATA controllers":  VT82C586 
IDE (Apollo)"  I presume this is for the hard drive.

All of this seems to be there even if I pull the sound cards, so (1) can 
I get this thing to use the sound card that came with it, or (2) can I 
get it to acknowledge the installation of some other card?


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Re: more compaq 4000 / linux questions.

[James Miller]

On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Richard Dawson wrote:
>
> Mandrake 9.1 didn't seem to find the ESS 1868 based. Compaq sound card.
>  The Compaq card is a quasi-ISA card.  There is a slightly extended ISA
> socket on the board (labeled Compaq) in which it is installed.  I
> removed that card, put a "vanilla" sound card in the adjacent ISA slot,
> and rebooted.  The Mandrake Control Center (MDC) Hardware tab doesn't
> seem to find it either.
>
<snip>
>
> All of this seems to be there even if I pull the sound cards, so (1) can
> I get this thing to use the sound card that came with it, or (2) can I
> get it to acknowledge the installation of some other card?
>
I'm not so swift on sound configuration under Linux either, and tend to
rely on its steadily-improving autodetection and driver/module autoloading
for this sort of thing.  But I may still be able to say something
relevant, as follows.  Were I in your shoes, I would get good hardware
identification numbers off the two cards (by physically looking at them)
and enter those terms into a Google search.  I would then select "restrict
the search" and enter in the term - yes, you guessed it - "Linux."  You
will likely get lots of results telling you how other Linux users have
fared in trying to use that hardware.  If you look extensively enough, you
will likely find fairly specific advice for getting that hardware working
on your system - if it really is supported by Linux.  I'm not trying to
say you shouldn't ask here.  I'll bet there are people that have some
fairly ready answers of a more technical nature than mine who could help.
But when I've confornted situations like yours, I've usually started with
some basic 'net searching.  Hope this helps.

James
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RE: more compaq 4000 / linux questions.

[Richard Dawson]

It has been a while, so I will repeat my question and report the solution.

Mandrake 9.1's installation program didn't identify and/or install 
Compaq's ESS 1868-based sound board in my Deskpro 4000 (5200MMX ). 
 Neither would it detect a "vanilla" card put in the same slot.  Note: 
 this is an ISA slot.

Solution:  Apparently Mandrake 9.1's installer does not probe the ISA 
bus.  I loaded and ran sndconfig, accepting the default interrupt (5, I 
believe) and address.  With that, sound seems to be working.

Thanks to those who responded with suggestions.

Richard Dawson





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