Re: [SLE] ES1987 Maestro 2E Sound Chip under SuSE 7.3
Hi
this seems to be a generic problem with the Maestro sound card, not just with my laptop. Also, I forgot to mention below that I previously got the sound card to work without problems under RedHat7.2. So the crashes I'm describing below seem to be a SuSE "feature"...?
I'm running SuSE 7.3 on a Dell Inspiron 7500 with an ES1987 Maestro
I have a Chicony 993 with a ES1968 Maestro 2. It used to work under SuSE 7.2 and before that, but now sound locks up the system when I start KDE. So I've disabled the sound for now; if you (or anyone else) knows a cure, I'll be very interested.
I may have sent this before. If so, please excuse. From the SuSE support site: Symptom The system hangs when performing the sound test in YaST2 or alsaconf, or when playing an audio file with any player. This affects all ESS-Maestro sound chips supported by the Alsa module snd-card-es1968. 1st Solution: ALSA Start your computer at run level 3 (the ALSA modules should not be loaded yet). You can do this by entering at the boot prompt: linux 3 Once on the run level 3, open the file /etc/modules.conf with an editor of your choice (e.g. with mc). Please disable with "#" the yast2 or alsaconf existing sound entry at the end of this file. If there is no sound entry available, please continue from the step "change to run level 5". An example for this entry follows: # YaST2: sound cards support # # alias char-major-116 snd # options snd snd_cards_limit=1 snd_major=116 # options snd-card-ens1371 snd_id=card1 snd_index=0 # alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371 # # YaST2: sound system dependent part # # alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss # alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss # alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss # alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss # alias sound-service-0-11 snd-mixer-oss # alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss Save the file /etc/modules.conf and change to run level 5 with init 5 In order to fix the ALSA module snd-card-es1968.o, please download the file alsa-fixes.sh from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/tiwai/7.3-i386/alsa-fixes.sh Execute this file as root in a terminal: sh ./alsa-fixes.sh The script determines the kernel version and automatically replaces the module. Activate now as root the sound entry you previously disabled in /etc/modules.conf. Finally, load the ALSA modules with rcalsasound start You can also use yast2 to configure your sound card (since the system "freezed" last time you tried). 2nd Solution: kernel sound module Use the kernel sound module maestro.o. First of all, open the file /etc/modules.conf with any editor of your choice and delete or mask the existing sound configuration. If you have already configured with YaST2 or alsaconf, you can find this configuration at the end of /etc/modules.conf. Finally, please delete the sound line configured in file /var/lib/YaST/unique.inf. [sound] oJUp.LB5FQylNql1 configured Now please unload the loaded sound modules with rcalsasound stop or with rmmod xxx (xxx = sound module name). By means of lsmod you can verify that all sound modules have been unloaded. In order to configure the kernel sound modules, please change the following entries in file /etc/modules.conf (from approx. line 43, after the comment) from alias char-major-14 off alias sound off alias midi off to alias char-major-14 maestro # alias sound off # alias midi off Start an oss-mixer, e.g. kmix. Now lsmod should produce the following output: Module Size Used by ... maestro 26112 0 (unused) soundcore 3280 2 [maestro] If it has not worked, please start the oss-mixer again after having executed the depmod -a command. ssage-----
From: Kaare Rasmussen [mailto:kar@kakidata.dk] Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 04:18 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] ES1987 Maestro 2E Sound Chip under SuSE 7.3
Hi
this seems to be a generic problem with the Maestro sound card, not just with my laptop. Also, I forgot to mention below that I previously got the sound card to work without problems under RedHat7.2. So the crashes I'm describing below seem to be a SuSE "feature"...?
I'm running SuSE 7.3 on a Dell Inspiron 7500 with an ES1987 Maestro
I have a Chicony 993 with a ES1968 Maestro 2. It used to work under SuSE 7.2 and before that, but now sound locks up the system when I start KDE. So I've disabled the sound for now; if you (or anyone else) knows a cure, I'll be very interested.
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