Yes, the sound is supported by the kernel directly. I grabbed the 2.2.15 kernel yesterday and tried it and it worked, so that's an answer. I'd prefer to use ALSA and the stock SuSE kernel though. Someone said the card was automatically detected by the ALSA shipped with 6.4, so I'll do an upgrade over the weekend. Will there be a 2.2.15 kernel for SuSE-6.4 appearing in the near future? "Brian L. Jilek" wrote:

Hi Derek!

On Thu, 04 May 2000, Derek Fountain wrote:

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I've got a new Dell 5000 laptop and I'm having trouble getting sound out of it using Alsa. I'm running SuSE-6.3 which carries an old version of Alsa which doesn't support the Maestro sound card, so I got the latest version via Freshmeat.

Following the ALSA-HOWTO, I load the modules using 'modprobe snd-card-es1968' and 'modprobe snd-pcm-oss' and all the device files appear as expected. When I try to 'cat largefile.txt > /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p' I get an error saying "cat: write error: File descriptor in bad state".

What am I doing wrong?

Is there support for that card in the kernel? I don't remember. Because I have a laptop with a ESS Solo-1 card that alsa said it recognized but would fail to set up properly. I finally compiled the kernel with the driver for that card in it and it works great. Not as a module. Someone on the laptop howto pages said if I did it as a module then I'd have to put a single line in modules.conf.

http://intern.linpro.no/~janl/inspiron-5000.html

Try putting "alias sound maestro" no quotes in modules.conf and comment out the alsa lines at the bottom.

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