Re: [Alsa-user] Sound on Laptop (Fujitsu Lifebook L-470)

[Krikket <kr...@go...>]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:41:53PM -0500, Krikket wrote:
> > I've been trying and failing to get sound to work on my latop.  It's a
> > Fujitsu Lifebook L-470.
> >
> > According to the manual, the built-in sound "card" is compatable with the
> > "Sound Blaster Pro".  Although while both RH9 and SuSE 9.0 have the
> > SoundBlaster Pro on the list of cards they can work with, neither one is
> > able to detect it.
>
> Have you tried the snd-es18xx driver?

It looks like I'm having trouble locating the right driver to download!  I
thought the file to work with was
ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.0rc2.tar.bz2.
(Although I'll be honest, at this point, I'm not even sure if 'tar xfvz
alsa...' will unpack a tar.bz2 file.)  I know I tried earlier, and
something didn't work (although I forget at the point it failed.  I've
been trying to get a lot of things up and running, so I'm learning a *lot*
of stuff, and covering a lot of ground at the moment...)  It sounds like
I'm working with the wrong file -- mind giving me a pointer to the correct
file?  I just went back to the site, and I still don't see anything for
the "ESS ES1879" chipset specifically.  So I'm probably missing something
fairly basic...

(I'm a relative newbie to admining Linux boxes, although I've been using
the internet and Unix as a user (and tech support guy, but only a
little admin/ops stuff) since before the web came about.)

Thanks again for the help!

Krikket
(Doug Krick)