On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Jyry Kuukkanen wrote:

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Jyry Kuukkanen wrote:

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Sorry, I can't help you with the sound card bit. Jon'll probably jump in, as he's a fan of the es1371 chip...

<looks up>

I "cat something.au >/dev/dsp" and that worked fine. There must be something silly about the installation. I just wonder what.

Have you installed SoX? It's on the CDs in series [snd], and has a `play' utility not entirely unlike the commercial OSS play. The 137x is kind of wierd, since it doesn't natively support some sound formats. I learned this by checking the kernel documentation (/usr/src/linux/doc/sound?). -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | Kansas City, MO /\\ 816-241-2641 x107 | http://www.atipa.com _\_V -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

Right. There's nothing wrong with es1371 chip or SB PCI64. It works great with OSS and ALSA. wavplay didn't work, though. Neither did KDE's sound features, hense I though there was something fishy with sb. "play" played wav's just fine and KDE was fixed with finddling with startkde's kaudioserver lines (found help for that from deja.com, question answered by Suse-chap, so thanks to him :-) Thanks for everyone who gave any pointers and hints. --Jyry On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Philipp Thomas wrote:

* Jyry Kuukkanen (jyry@neutech.fi) [20000223 10:14]:

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I'm trying to install a sound card with es1371 based chip to a Suse 6.3 with 2.2.14. Everything went fine until I tried

Which driver are you using, OSS or ALSA? If OSS, I'd recommend ALSA. It's on the CDs, package alsa in series snd. This does work (I've a SB 128PCI in my machine at work). One of the nicest features of ALSA is, that you can save and restore the mixer settings via the tool alsactl that comes with it, another is the alsaconf tool, which lets you setup your soundcard(s). It'll detect PCI and ISA PnP cards automatically.

Philipp

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