No sound on my old Notebook with ESS SoundchipForum: Multimedia Topic: No sound on my old Notebook with ESS Soundchip started by: Wirrkopf Posted by Wirrkopf on April 09 2007,10:10
I run an HDD installed DSL 3.3 on an old Notebook (Compaq Armada 4160T, CPU: Pentium I 166 Mhz, RAM: 80 MB, HDD:1 GB CompactFlash, Screen: LCD 800x600, 16 Bit)Because these SubNotebook donīt have an CD and no USB i installed DSL 3.3 on an newer Notebook (Compac Armada M300) and moved the HDD after the installation to the older Notebook. Great: The WLAN with an old PCMCIA Card runs out of the box! :-) BUT until now i have no Sound. :-( I think the notebook have an non pnp ISA ESS 688, 1688 or 1788 Soundchip inside. How can i get sound running? Iīm a total linux newbe so i search a lot in these forum an try "sudo modprobe sb" but i get only
I found now in DSL System Stats - dmesg:
Posted by curaga on April 09 2007,12:11
Check the bios for everything about the sound card, like irq, address.... Then type modinfo sbto see how to enter those options, and then modprobe sb with the options for your card. Posted by Wirrkopf on April 09 2007,13:50
If i try "modprobe sb something...." i get allways:
Posted by Wirrkopf on April 14 2007,10:22
I installed DSL 3.3 new on my CF Card and try it again.
works now! But if i try to play MP3s i get only a bad Sound with interrupts. The CPU usage seems not over 60%. Is there a chane to get a better sound? The notebook has no problems with MP3 playing in Windows NT 4.0... Posted by curaga on April 14 2007,10:28
1: give sound player higher priority (sudo nice -n -3 xmms)2: try one with lower requirements (like mpg321 included with DSL) 3: enable dma for that cf card, also check using hdparm from DSL wiki |