At the moment none of the modules are installed at boot up I modprobe them manually from shell in the following order

boot
run script that makes snd devices
depmod -a
modprobe sis7019
modprobe snd-pcm-oss

Ok, I found the problem with OSS

The soundcore was built into kernel and didn't need to be added to modules.conf

so i just :-

insmod ac97_codec
insmod sis7019

and there it is, I have a /dev/dsp device (finally)

if i cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp i get white noise

At the moment if I cat donuts.wav > /dev/dsp it plays back but at the wrong speed (slowly)

I guess this is either because OSS assume 44khz 16bit (and the .wav is not in this format), or its still b0rked....

More investigation needed as I need to eventually get this going playing back sounds from a flash file...

at last.

Do you have a hint for me as to where to get the 7019 drivers? I'm trying to get audio working on an eBox, but Storever and related don't seem to have the driver, and sis.com's Linux download page is broken, incomplete.. Umigumi's CVS is down.. sigh..

Prethanks!

they come with the alsa sound drivers. google for alsa sound.

I have. The ALSA compat matrix shows only 7018 and 7012 chipset support. No mention of 7019, and several other messages I came accross indicate that the 7018 driver won't handle a 7019. Practical experience shows this to be true. A loaded "trident" driver finds to audio hardware whatsoever,on my eBox.

what does "lspci -n".

http://www.dmp.com.tw/tech/icop_cd/HTML/drv_sis7019.htm

these are oss drivers, meant for the vortex86 embedded board I was working on from ICOP, not sure if this is the same board you are using ?

Good luck....

lspci -n:

0000:00:00.0 Class 0600: 1039:0550 (rev 01)
0000:00:00.1 Class 0101: 1039:5513 (rev d0)
0000:00:01.0 Class 0601: 1039:0018
0000:00:01.2 Class 0c03: 1039:7001 (rev 07)
0000:00:01.4 Class 0401: 1039:7019
0000:00:02.0 Class 0604: 1039:0001
0000:00:0d.0 Class 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10)
0000:01:00.0 Class 0300: 1039:5315

(extract from) lspci -v:

0000:00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7019 Audio Accelerator
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7019 Audio Accelerator
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at dc00
Memory at dfff8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

Thanks for the Link. Unfortunately, these are binaries, and insmod refuses to load them, because of kernel version incompatibilities..
Indeed, a force load causes an immediate Kernel Oops..

You wouldn't happen to have a link to the sources, would you :-) ?

I'd really like to stay with a 2.6 kernel, tried the above with a 2.4.28-gentoo-r7 though..

If I really have to I'll go to 2.4.21, which is what these .o are built against.