soundcard not coming up in /dev

[ScouseMouse]

Hi

This one is killing me: I'm trying to get sound running on my laptop. I know the IRQ settings are cool and I know the chip (it works fine on my dualboot SuSE 8.0) name is correct. I've followed the instructions on the desktop guide but when booting, I get an error message from modprobe:

/blah/blah/snd-es1968.o: Init_module: no such device

Is this something to do with devfs not recognising the card? If so, what can I do about it?

Thanks!
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[some_bob]

try modprobe without the .o attached to the module... but usually I get a slightly different error message (module not found) for that so your issue is probably something else...

[ScouseMouse]

Still the same result.

But things have advanced a bit - I´ve totally recompiled the kernel and now the module is being accepted and the alsadriver init script is running OK. However, I get the error message: soundcard not found. I look in /dev and there is a node /dev/snd-es1968 but it´s not linked to anything. Also, there doesn´t appear to be a mixer node in /dev/sound.

Any clues?
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[some_bob]

can you post an "lsmod" and also the output from "cat /proc/devices"?

[ScouseMouse]

Sorry for the delay - have been away! Anyway, lsmod gives:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss 35300 0 (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss 8960 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
reiserfs 155808 1 (autoclean)
sd_mod 10272 0 (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod 80552 1 (autoclean) [sd_mod]
parport_pc 12996 1 (autoclean)
lp 6048 0 (autoclean) (unused)
parport 13856 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
8390 6032 0 (unused)
snd-es1968 13476 0
snd-pcm 48256 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-es1968]
snd-timer 10208 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 2576 0 [snd-es1968]
snd-rawmidi 12352 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3808 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 23300 0 [snd-es1968]
snd 24296 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-es1968 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]

and /proc/devices:

Character devices:
1 mem
2 pty/m%d
3 pty/s%d
4 tts/%d
5 cua/%d
6 lp
7 vcs
10 misc
14 sound
116 alsa
128 ptm
136 pts/%d
162 raw
180 usb
226 drm
254 pcmcia

Block devices:
2 fd
3 ide0
22 ide1

For good measure here's /proc/pci:

PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 3).
Master Capable. Latency=64.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe3ffffff].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 3).
Master Capable. Latency=128. Min Gnt=140.
Bus 0, device 4, function 0:
CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 1).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=168. Min Gnt=192.Max Lat=5.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x10000000 [0x10000fff].
Bus 0, device 4, function 1:
CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (#2) (rev 1).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=168. Min Gnt=192.Max Lat=5.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x10001000 [0x10001fff].
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 2).
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1).
Master Capable. Latency=64.
I/O at 0x1090 [0x109f].
Bus 0, device 7, function 2:
USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 1).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable. Latency=64.
I/O at 0x1060 [0x107f].
Bus 0, device 7, function 3:
Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 3).
IRQ 9.
Bus 0, device 8, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 16).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=24.
I/O at 0x1400 [0x14ff].
Bus 0, device 16, function 0:
Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics WinModem 56k (rev 1).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=252.Max Lat=14.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc000000 [0xfc0000ff].
I/O at 0x1080 [0x1087].
I/O at 0x1800 [0x18ff].
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 100).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=66. Min Gnt=8.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfd000000 [0xfdffffff].
I/O at 0x2000 [0x20ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc100000 [0xfc100fff].


Thanks for any help!!

Dan

[mfairchi]

did you ever get this resloved? I am having the same problem. If you did get it fixed i would love to know how
thanks,
Michael