sndconfig problems: sound only works until reboot

[jhuizer 0]

Hello,

 

I've got this situation: I'm setting up the laptop of my brother to use Debian; The laptop is an Compaq Pressario 1245 which is running Debian. The problem is that sound isn't working. The laptop is not connected to internet so this email is send via another computer.

 

Unfortunately, I don't have a hardware overview of the laptop - however, by searching on the net I found the laptop probably has the ESS 1869 card.

Now, I can use sndconfig successfully; When I select the Soundblaster the sound does work - unfortunately, it doesn't work anymore if the computer has been rebooted, or shutdown.

The big problem is, sndconfig doesn't tell me what it's doing - and to make sound work again, I have to remove the sndconfig settings (stored in /etc/modutils/sndconfig - which is then put in /etc/modules.conf) and reboot to make sndconfig reconfigure successfully

 

I think the problem has to do with drivers which are started by sndconfig, but not added to the /etc/modules (which is the file where the drivers to load are listed in Debian)

I tried loads of things - I searched the internet for a couple of times, and I found many people have found different settings to work, but so far none of them worked on the laptop

 

I don't know wether this is helpfull, but here is a copy of the output of lspci :

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: OPTi Inc. 82C701 [FireStar Plus] (rev 32)00:01.0 ISA bridge: OPTi Inc. 82C700 (rev 31)00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01)00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01)00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] (rev 01)00:13.0 USB Controller: OPTi Inc. 82C861 (rev 10)00:14.0 IDE interface: OPTi Inc. 82C825 [Firebridge 2] (rev 30)

 

If you need more logs, just tell me what to post / where to find them...

 

Thanks for your help,

 

Joris

[Philipp 6]

Quote:

I think the problem has to do with drivers which are started by sndconfig, but not added to the /etc/modules (which is the file where the drivers to load are listed in Debian)

Did you already try modconf?

[jhuizer 0]

Yes I've looked at it for a few times - but I'm not at all a sound guru - and it *seems* the modules which are used by sndconfig should be loaded allright.

 

This is /etc/modutils/sndconfig - the only file sndconfig writes which is telling me sonething

Code:

alias sound-slot-0 sbpost-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :options sound dmabuf=1alias synth0 opl3options opl3 io=0x388options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1

The other file sndconfig writes doesn't seem very helpfull - it's called /etc/sysconfig/soundcard :

Code:

# THIS FILE IS WRITTEN BY SNDCONFIG# PLEASE USE SNDCONFIG TO MODIFY# TO CHANGE THIS FILE!# There should be no spaces at the start of a line# or around the '=' signCARDTYPE=SBORIG

Sorry I didn't post this before, but I have to copy with floppies so I didn't have time just then.

 

I hope you can help,

 

Joris