Audio on old laptop, Armada 7770 DMT

[Jaime Garmendia]

Thanks, yes, that is an ISA card - Ubuntu did not find it at all. No
/dev/dsp was created. It does not appear in dmesg.

The command:

"modprobe snd-es18xx irq=5 dma1=0 dma2=1 sb_port=0x0220 "

yields a "(.../snd-es18xx.ko):No such device"

same with any other combination of parameters I have tried.  Debian
Installer RC1 worked after I used sndconfig, so the OSS drivers work,
unfortunately I did not copy the modules.conf file before I stepped on
the partition with Ubuntu.

ALSA has always baffled me. Any good source of information and
examples available?

> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 13:16:00 +0100
> From: Oliver Grawert <hostmaster at grawert.net>
snip..
> > using sndconfig. Ubuntu did not recognize the sound card, an ESS 1878,
> > set at IRQ=5, and IO at 0x0220, 0x0388 and 0x0300.
> this is a good ole ISA soundcard which is supported by the snd-es18xx
> alsa module.
> probably you get some information with:
> modinfo snd-es18xx
> i'm not familiar with ISA on linux2.6 so i dont konw what to suggest
> else...
> 
> ciao
>         oli
>