Jon Pennington wrote:

"Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@valinet.com> said:

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root@pleurotus:/aux/home/pwa > modprobe es1371 /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/es1371.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

I hate to break this to you, Paul, but if you recompiled your kernel just for es1371 support, modularly or otherwise, you wasted your time :). Messages like the above say one of two things to me;

1) The module has loaded without your knowledge (lsmod will show you this). 2) You don't actually have an es1371 card installed (lspci will verify this).

You were right: what I thought was an es1371 was actually, according to lspci, an es1370. But I still can't get to the point where `cat /dev/sndstat' yields anything useful. It just says `device not found'. I've tried both compiling sound support modularly and compiling it into the kernel. In each case I selected the sound support and es1370 options. I deselected oss, although I had also tried, earlier, selecting it. (With es1370 support, is oss redundant?) I can't find anything else in the sound section of kernel configuration (a stock 2.2.15 kernel, by the way) that looks as though it would help. I've also commented out the oss lines near the top of /etc/conf.modules and uncommented the lines for ess1370 there. The ess1370 lines don't include a post-install line, which possibly might be a problem with the version of conf.modules that I have. The Sound Howto is very vague on the subject of kernel configuration. The section on testing the installation says that I should see messages like: Sound initialization started ... Sound initialization complete but I've never seen those, not even with sound support compiled into the kernel. Do you know how those messages are supposed to be generated? I suspect some essential component that generates them is missing, but I can't find anything in the various docs, either the Howtos or the sound docs that come with the kernel, that suggests what that component might be. Thanks for your help. Paul Abrahams -- 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/