Hi all and thanks for reading this,
I have a Siemens Scenic 510 laptop and the problem is its sound card. It is a usual ESS1869 chip, and I can not make it work under linux (Slackware 9.0). Reading over internet I found that it should be SoundBlaster compatible and it should work with sb module so I tried this:

modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=0 mpu_io=0x330 esstype=1869

and loading module passed with no errors. I took those io,irq and other values from BIOS (values from Windows can not work) and when I try to play some sound with XMMS or some Test message with KDE sound, computer freezes and only hard reset can wake it. Here are the things that I don't understand very well:
In BIOS there are values
Capture DMA : 1
Playback DMA : 0
Which one is dma and dma16? I switched the values and when I tried to play sound it didn't freeze but it didn't work either. dmesg output was:

Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?

I don't know any more is it isa PnP card or not?? pnpdump says No board found. I tried with ALSA, compiled and installed it ok, and modprobe snd-es18xx says No such device
I don't know what to do anymore, PLEASE help me, or give some suggestions!!

Thanx again

heh iirc ess1869 is included in the linux kernel try reconfiguring your kernel and adding this option in,

I had the same problem, and now it randomly beeps at me. Which is kinda cool, as i dont use it for anything else

I think I tried recompiling kernel with support for all thing that could be connected with es1869, but I'll try again, if it helped you