Sound Card Problem

[Bob Marcan]

chalonec at comcast.net wrote:
> I have a compaq Armada 7800 laptop with a built in ESS 1879 sound card that I can't seem to get detected.  I flash the bios, re-installed, and run system-config-sound card.
> 
> The compaq diagnostics successfully tests the sound card and it was working under Windows NT and 2000.
> 
> Does any know know how to fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Roger
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Subject:
> Re: what is smartd? It fails on bootup.
> From:
> "Javier Perez" <pepebuho at gmail.com>
> Date:
> Thu, 18 May 2006 07:43:06 +0000
> To:
> "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> 
> man smartd
> 
> On 5/18/06, Dennis Castanos <dennismouille at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Can anyone tell me what smartd does or why the startup error? Can I
>> remove the check in the services?  It's description reads "dead but 
>> subsys
>> locked".
>> thanks,
>> Dennis, new linux user
>>
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alias snd-card-0 snd-es1688
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-es1688
# module options should go here
options snd-es1688 port=0x220 mpu_port=0x388 irq=5 dma8=1

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

install snd-es1688 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-es1688 && 
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-es1688 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; 
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-es1688


Regards, Bob

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