Alsa ES1371 No Sound [Solved, sort of]

[Phantom1000]

I'm really stuck and would appreciate some help. I've been trying to get some sound out of my system without any luck so far. I've tested the hardware under Knoppix, and it works. Under Gentoo, I've been using mpg123 for testing and get no results. When I pump up the volume with amixer using:

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amixer set Master 100 unmute
amixer set PCM 100 unmute 

I can hear hissing. Lowering either Master or PCM in alsamxer eliminates the hiss. I've tried muting and unmuting various controls under alsamixer with no luck. Can anyone point me in a direction to solve this?

Below are the outputs I've been seeing requested....

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myth2 ~ # lspci -v | grep audio
0000:00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 08)

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myth2 ~ # less /etc/modules.d/alsa
# OSS/Free portion

##
## IMPORTANT:
## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s)
## and then run `update-modules' command.
## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info.
##
##  ALSA portion
## alias snd-card-0 snd-interwave
##  OSS/Free portion
## alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
##

# OSS/Free portion - card #1
##  OSS/Free portion - card #2
## alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
## alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
## alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss

# Set this to the correct number of cards.

alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss

# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF version 1.0.9a ---

alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371
alias sound-slot-0 snd-ens1371

# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

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cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep SND
CONFIG_SND=m
CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m
CONFIG_SND_PCM=m
CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=m
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m
CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=m
CONFIG_SND_ENS1371=m

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alsasound is set to run at boot. dmesg shows no errors. Not sure if it matters, but I'm using ndiswrapper, and both it and the soundcard are using IRQ11. I was getting errors on boot if I set alsasound to run as default until I set pci=routeirq in grub.conf. I have also tried building the kernel with all of the kernel config options set to 'y'. Can anyone help out?

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is this an nforce?

[Phantom1000]

Honestly, I don't know. It's on the MB.

[kucrut]

I follow this guide to setup my ES1371 and have no problem at all. From my experience, it's easier to use alsa-driver package than one from kernel.

[kasperhans]

another documentation - i followed this one but with via integrated audio chipset worked complete on first time,
maybe you forgot something like an rc-update or small link or so read it and backcheck every step you did ... good luck
if you did and everything was right post again
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/de/alsa-guide.xml

[Phantom1000]

Just wanted to give an update....

I spent the weekend trying to get sound working without any luck. I followed any/all options, mulitple times, listed in the above links. Even tried upgrading to the newest stable kernel and alsa without success. I finally broke down and bought a new card tonight and had everything working perfectly in about 15 minutes.

Since many people seem to be having success, it's probably my lack of knowledge. However, since my experiences were the same as the ones detailed in this post, at least I know I'm not alone in my issues with this driver.

Thanks for the suggestions/help kasperhans and kucrut.