alsa and sound card detection
 

I have version 9.1 on a Gateway 5150 notebook. The sound card is based on the ESS 1688 chipset. If I try to modprobe snd-es1688, it will not load the module. If I run alsaconf (specifying to try es1688 with all possible io and irq combinations), it goes through and states that it did not detect anything.

However, when I do lsmod after alsaconf, the module snd-es1688 is loaded and the sound card works. The problem is that when I reboot, I loose all the settings. Modules.conf is empty - meaning that alsaconf does not write anything to it (which coincides with the fact that alsaconf stated that no cards were detected), even though it loaded the driver.

What can I do to save these settings?

Thanks

try as root

alsactl store and then making sure alsactl restore is called on boot.

Thanks, I'll try that.

Any clue as to why alsaconf states at the end that it didn't find any sound cards?

well.. I ahve never had alsaconf detect my card... btw, edit rc.modules (/etc/rc.d) to make sure snd-ess#### is in their and gets loaded on boot as well.

you might have to make sure that rc.alsa is executable as well.

as root

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa