Heyas,

I have been running Windows 2000 on my laptop up until now. I decided I would like to try installing Linux (Slackware 9.1), after installing it on my desktop. I am currently having trouble getting the sound to work. From what I read, I have to install ALSA and set that up to work with my sound card. I am using the directions here: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...le=es18xx#Inst

I am using alsa-utils-1.0.5.tar.bz2, alsa-driver-1.0.5.tar.bz2, and alsa-lib-1.0.5.tar.bz2. I believe all three packages compiled and installed without a problem, as I was never presented with an error message. And I practically copy and pasted the commands from the website into a terminal, so I would think they should be working. However, I got to this:

# modprobe snd-es18xx;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss

/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.o: init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.o: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.o.gz: init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.o.gz: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.o.gz failed
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.o.gz: insmod snd-es18xx failed
root@hermes:/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-1.0.5# modprobe snd-es18xx;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss
Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.22/modules.dep
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.o: init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.o: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.o.gz: unresolved symbol snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_isa_pages_for_all
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.o.gz failed
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.o.gz: insmod snd-es18xx failed
Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.22/modules.dep
Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.22/modules.dep
Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.22/modules.dep

So I tried 'dmesg', I am not sure how to check syslog(I am still fairly new to Linux).

# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.22 (root@midas) (gcc version 3.2.3) #6 Tue Sep 2 17:43:01 PDT 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fff6000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fff6000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS)
255MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 65526
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61430 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
DMI not present.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301 sb=544,5,1,3
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 365.694 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 730.72 BogoMIPS
Memory: 256068k/262104k available (1813k kernel code, 5648k reserved, 614k data, 116k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Mobile Pentium II stepping 0a
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0474, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:0e.1
PCI: Using IRQ router default [0e11/ae69] at 00:0e.0
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
vesafb: framebuffer at 0x40000000, mapped to 0xd080d000, size 1536k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pages=4
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:765e
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
TRIFLEX: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0e.1
TRIFLEX: chipset revision 1
TRIFLEX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1000-0x1007, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
hda: IBM-DCXA-210000, ATA DISK drive
hdb: COMPAQ DVD-ROM SR-8171, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
blk: queue c03a9d80, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 19640880 sectors (10056 MB) w/420KiB Cache, CHS=1299/240/63, (U)DMA
hdb: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdb: ATAPI 20X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 605.600 MB/sec
32regs : 363.200 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 821.200 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 854.800 MB/sec
raid5: using function: p5_mmx (854.800 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002)
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed
Adding Swap: 498952k swap-space (priority -1)
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M
agpgart: no supported devices found.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Intel PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
Yenta IRQ list 0690, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta IRQ list 0690, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000010
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xc48-0xc4f 0xc68-0xc6f 0xc80-0xc9f
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: excluding 0x800-0x83f 0x850-0x87f
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x100-0x107 0x220-0x22f 0x250-0x257 0x330-0x337 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x408-0x40f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
eth0: Megahertz 574B at io 0x300, irq 9, hw_addr 00:50:04:8B:F9:87.
ASIC rev 1, 64K FIFO split 1:1 Rx:Tx, autoselect MII interface.
eth0: found link beat
eth0: link partner did not autonegotiate
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xd0a04000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:0e.2, Compaq Computer Corporation ZFMicro Chipset USB
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 18:40:47 Sep 2 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
Keyboard timed out[1]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
ALSA ../alsa-kernel/isa/es18xx.c:2215: ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device busy
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
ALSA ../alsa-kernel/isa/es18xx.c:2249: ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device busy
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
ALSA ../alsa-kernel/isa/es18xx.c:2215: ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device busy
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
ALSA ../alsa-kernel/isa/es18xx.c:2215: ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device busy
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
ALSA ../alsa-kernel/isa/es18xx.c:2215: ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device busy
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
ALSA ../alsa-kernel/isa/es18xx.c:2215: ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device busy
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
ALSA ../alsa-kernel/isa/es18xx.c:2215: ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device busy
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
ALSA ../alsa-kernel/isa/es18xx.c:2215: ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device busy
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
ALSA ../alsa-kernel/isa/es18xx.c:2215: ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device busy
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found

I am not sure why it cannot find the soundcard. I know it works, it worked fine in Windows 2000. Perhaps someone else knows what I may have done wrong or atleast someway I can get more information that may hint at what I am doing wrong. I have run Slackware on my desktop for a little over a month now, but setting it up went very smoothly. So, I do not have much experiance with problems such as this one yet.

Thanks,
Chris

I have the same laptop and am running Mandrake 10. I never was able to get alsa working with the 2.4 kernel but OSS worked fine. Now that I am using Mandrake 10, I use alsa with it compiled into the 2.6 kernel. I'll be glad to send you my kernel config and modprobe.conf file, assuming you want to compile the 2.6 kernel. By the way, the card in this laptop is:

ALSA device list:
#0: ES1688 rev 11 at 0x220, irq 5, dma 1

I have the ESS es1869 sound card on my laptop running Slack 10.0..

is the config the same.. and where do i find the utils to run it???

Thanx