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

[Frans K. <ket...@wa...>]

On Wednesday 17 December 2003 03:23, Krikket wrote:
> 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)

Here are instructions for the snd-es18xx module:
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=ESS+Technology&card=ES18xx&chip=ES18xx&module=es18xx

The alsa-driver-1.0.0rc2.tar.bz2 file contains the source code for all 
the supported soundcards but you can compile just the modules you need.

HTH,

    -Frans