Re: [Alsa-user] Sound on Laptop (Fujitsu Lifebook L-470)
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From: Krikket <kr...@go...> - 2003-12-17 08:56:54
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Frans Ketelaars wrote: > 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. Thank you. Now at least I know for certain that I was looking at the wrong documentation. :p Hopefully things will be running correctly later today... Krikket |