Hello, I'm running Sarge kernel 2.4.27-386 and am having a terrible time getting my sound card to work. I've combed through the forums and used the sound howto, all to no avail. I've tried alsaconf and everything worked out, but sound doesn't work. When I run

linux# dmesg
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
devfs_register(sound/audio): could not append to parent, err: -17
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
sb: dsp reset failed.

linux# lsmod gives me this (more as well, but I think these are all that pertain to sound):
[QUOTE]Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-ens1371 10528 0
snd-pcm-oss 34016 0 (unused)
snd-mixer-oss 11000 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
gameport 1388 0 [snd-ens1371]
snd-rawmidi 11552 0 [snd-ens1371]
snd-seq-device 3604 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 48280 0 [snd-ens1371]
snd-pcm 50248 0 [snd-ens1371 snd-pcm-oss snd-ac97-codec]
snd-timer 12548 0 [snd-pcm]
snd 28260 0 [snd-ens1371 snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer]
snd-page-alloc 4328 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-pcm snd-timer snd]
soundcore 3268 6 [snd]

Gives me this (more as well, but I think these are all that pertain to sound):

linux# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 06)
0000:00:0f.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20262 (FastTrak66/Ultra66) (rev 01)
0000:00:10.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:11.0 Communication controller: 5610 56K FaxModem WinModem
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know, thanks.

Hello,
OK, upon further research into my problems with the Ensoniq es1371 card, I found a post refering me to: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ (under nu sound... thread). I read over and followed the directions for the es1371 card and downloaded and installed the drivers, the libraries and utils. I inserted the modules into the kernel, but on the last module (snd-seq-oss) I got this error:

linux:/home/downloads/alsa-utils-1.0.9rc3# modprobe snd-seq-oss
insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/sound/acore/seq/snd-seq.o: No such file or directory
insmod: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/sound/acore/seq/snd-seq.o failed
insmod: insmod snd-seq-oss failed

I looked into the directory /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/sound/acore/seq/ and there is a directory oss that contains no files. However, when I try to locate the file snd-seq.o I get:

linux:# locate snd-seq.o
/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/sound/acore/seq/snd-seq.o
/usr/src/alsa/modules/alsa-driver/acore/seq/snd-seq.o
/usr/src/alsa/modules/alsa-driver/modules/snd-seq.o

So I'm not sure what's happening there. Actually, when I do modprobe snd-seq-oss I now get:

linux:# modprobe snd-seq-oss
modprobe: Can't locate module snd-seq-oss

linux:# locate snd-seq-oss
/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/sound/acore/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.o
/lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/kernel/sound/core/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.ko
/usr/src/alsa/modules/alsa-driver/acore/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.o
/usr/src/alsa/modules/alsa-driver/modules/snd-seq-oss.o

So, it appears to be there, but isn't being recognized (I've tried using the full path names, i.e.
linux;# modprobe /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/sound/acore/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.o)

I also made the file /etc/modutils/alsa with this information:

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371
# module options should go here

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

I figured it wouldn't work because of the snd-seq-oss module failure, but I then set the sound volumes using alsamiser and still got no sound. Not sure what else to do, if anyone has any ideas, please let me know, I much appreciate it.

Thank you

Also, I'm using the Gnome desktop when I try vumeter I get "Cannot connect to sound daemon. Please run 'esd' at a command prompt." When I run esd nothing happens, I have to kill the process to get the prompt back. When I tried using Music Player I get the error "Could not create audio output element; check your settings." AlsaPlayer, Gnome-cd and xmms play as if all is working, but no sound output.

Again, any help would be much appreciated.

Ok, well, I read in another thread that someone's sound problem went away after removing everything alsa and re-installing it. I did that and this time when I ran alsaconf it said everything worked, but gave me this error afterwards:

Running update-modules...
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/updates/alsa/snd-pdaudiocf.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/updates/alsa/snd-vx-cs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/updates/alsa/snd-vxp440.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/updates/alsa/snd-vxpocket.o

Is there something I can do to resolve this?

Ok, to get rid of the dependancy errors I removed Alsa and all directories, reinstalled Alsa per directions on webpage for my sound card. Re-did alsaconf, alsamixer, alsactl store. Then I found a thread on comp.os.linux.hardware that the digital input for Boston Acoustic Speakers doesn't work, but the analog does. Sure enough, it worked for me.

I now have sound!

could you please post your website. when I get my gentoo install up and running I am expecting the same problems. In the install cd I am getting errors so im sure it will continue. I am trying It for a old gateway with I believe the same card. Esoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] it also has Boston accoustic speakers.

Here's the address:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....6ad52b384e8e13

Basically, for my problem anyway, my Boston Acoustic speakers have an analog and a digital input on the back of the bass speaker (which then connects to the cpu). For some reason using the digital input doesn't work, but the analog input does. On mine I had to use a different cable.

Hope that helps.