[olug] Sound Card Problems

[Russell Monaghan]

    Hello. I'm in dire need of a fix to this issue, cause I've been 
without sound for about two weeks straight now, and I don't have any 
patience while working unless I have my music. I have an Ensoniq 1371 
sound card that I got from another box after the on-board Intel stuff 
quit on me. It worked OK sometimes, meaning that if I ever rebooted, 
there was a good chance the card wouldn't be initialized on boot. 
Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. It seemed to depend on the 
number of USB devices connected at the time, but I think that could've 
just been coincidence. After I upgraded to Hardy recently, it quit 
working altogether. Like I said, I don't think the card gets initialized 
at boot, from what I can tell. I do have the ens1371 module set to load 
on boot, which is the correct driver. But apparently the card doesn't 
want to cooperate.

I attached the entire dmesg output, in case all the other pci stuff is 
relevant.

And here's lspci:

> 02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 06)
>     Subsystem: Ensoniq Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI64V, AudioPCI128
>     Flags: slow devsel, IRQ 18
>     I/O ports at dcc0 [size=64]
>     Capabilities: <access denied>
Here's for the on-board sound, too. It gets set up alright, and ALSA has 
no problem playing to it, I just don't hear anything from the speakers. 
I think it got fried during one of the nice storms we had:

> 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
> (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
>     Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0126
>     Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
>     I/O ports at c800 [size=256]
>     I/O ports at cc40 [size=64]
>     Memory at fe300400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
>     Memory at fe300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
>     Capabilities: <access denied>

*asoundconf -l *only lists the Intel audio, and the asoundconf set card 
or whatever the command is doesn't work cause alsa doesn't see the 
Ensoniq card. I know Ensoniq stuff is a pain to get working, but any 
help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

R.T. Monaghan