ess soundcard not detected

[Dave Waller]

I have a compaq deskpro with a built-in ess 1869 soundcard and it worked 
just fine in RH7, 8, 9 and Fedora Core 1, but it now does not work.

Their are several sound modules loaded
ide_cd 36100 0 - Live 0xd89a3000
snd_mixer_oss 17024 0 - Live 0xd894e000
snd 53476 1 snd_mixer_oss, Live 0xd89b5000
soundcore 9952 1 snd, Live 0xd8976000
ipv6 233856 24 - Live 0xd8a40000
lp 11884 0 - Live 0xd8972000
autofs 20096 0 - Live 0xd886c000
e100 38660 0 - Live 0xd8998000
mii 4864 1 e100, Live 0xd8869000
ohci1394 38296 0 - Live 0xd892e000
ieee1394 299444 1 ohci1394, Live 0xd89f5000
floppy 58928 0 - Live 0xd8988000
sg 33440 0 - Live 0xd8944000
sd_mod 15392 0 - Live 0xd8912000
st 36380 0 - Live 0xd893a000
sr_mod 16292 0 - Live 0xd890d000
scsi_mod 114876 4 sg,sd_mod,st,sr_mod, Live 0xd8954000
cdrom 33564 2 ide_cd,sr_mod, Live 0xd8924000
parport_pc 35244 1 - Live 0xd891a000
parport 44648 2 lp,parport_pc, Live 0xd8830000
microcode 6688 0 - Live 0xd882d000
hid 53396 0 - Live 0xd885a000
uhci_hcd 38172 0 - Live 0xd884f000
usbcore 107316 4 hid,uhci_hcd, Live 0xd8890000
ext3 115240 3 - Live 0xd8872000
jbd 72472 1 ext3, Live 0xd883c000

Dave Waller