Iam using compaq 450 MHz computer. The sound card is builtin in the board i.e

ES 1869 Control Interface (WDM)
ES 1869 Plug & Play Audio Device (WDM).

I have installed Mandrake Linux 8 as well as Red Hat Linux 8 in my system but Linux does't support this sound card where as the sound works fine under windows enviroment.

Plz guide me that how can i enable or use this card under Linux. If any one is already using under this configration plz guide me.

If it is not supported tell me that which PCI sound card should i purchase.

Thanks

Can you please post the output of
lspci
lspci -v
lsmod


Cheers,
Tink

Ive got exactly the same problem, Im running a dual processor 450MHz workstation with mandrake 10.1 and theres no detection of my sound (Ive got the same onboard card as above, ESS 1869) Any help would be appriciated

I've recently got hold of a Compaq computer. I think it's a Compaq Deskpro EN SFF 500MHz.

I have installed FC4. However it doesn't seem to have detected the sound card/device which is built into the motherboard. Apparantly this is meant to be an ESS-1869 chipset.
I have read that I would need to run the old sound setup to set this up in linux, however, I'm not sure where to get "sndconfig" from.

The output of the commands mentioned is below. I don't see any mention of a sound device though.
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[root@Compaq etc]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 05)
00:14.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:14.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:14.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c)

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[root@Compaq etc]# lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at 48000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 00001000-00001fff
Memory behind bridge: 40000000-400fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 41000000-41ffffff

00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 05)
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation NC3161 Fast Ethernet NIC (embedded, WOL)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
Memory at 40200000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=32]
Memory at 40100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

00:14.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
I/O ports at 2040 [size=16]

00:14.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 2020 [size=32]

00:14.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Pro Turbo AGP 2X
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
Memory at 41000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]
I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
Memory at 40000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0

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[root@Compaq etc]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 29189 1
lp 13129 0
parport 40969 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 29637 2
rfcomm 42589 0
l2cap 30917 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 56517 4 rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc 168453 1
ipt_REJECT 5825 1
ipt_state 1985 9
ip_conntrack 42009 1 ipt_state
iptable_filter 3137 1
ip_tables 19521 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
md5 4161 1
ipv6 268737 37
uhci_hcd 35281 0
i2c_piix4 8913 0
i2c_core 21825 1 i2c_piix4
e100 49345 0
mii 5569 1 e100
floppy 65397 0
dm_snapshot 17413 0
dm_zero 2113 0
dm_mirror 26157 0
ext3 132681 3
jbd 86233 1 ext3
dm_mod 58101 7 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror