sound and laptops with a vanilla kernel

poet1493 · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 12

i jsut installed gentoo on my dell latitude cpx and i cant get sound to work i had to compile a vanilla kernel for the genkerl gave me nothing but trouble i need help on getting my sound to work :?:

HogRider · Apprentice Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 160

We're going to need a lot more information.

What soundcard? (lspci)
What modules do you have loaded? (lsmod)

this would be a good start.
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poet1493 · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 12

i am trying to find the card type and i forget which modules i have how do find that out ?

poet1493 · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 12

i found the sound card type and it is an ess mestro intergrated sound and i am still trying to find my mods (lsmod) did not work

HogRider · Apprentice Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 160

As 'root', run lspci (list's all pci devices), and 'lsmod' (list's all currently loaded modules.

Under lspci, you're looking for the soundcard/multimedia device.

Post it here.

A quick google of "+linux +"ess mestro" returned this link (first listing):

http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/47/1999/11/200/2901412/
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Mike

"Computers are like air conditioners, they stop working properly if you open Windows"
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'

poet1493 · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 12

k here is what lspci did

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
00:03.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Xircom Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 (rev 03)
02:00.1 Serial controller: Xircom Cardbus Ethernet + 56k Modem (rev 03)

and here is my mod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
xircom_cb 7304 0 (unused)
xircom_tulip_cb 13496 1
crc32 2912 0 [xircom_tulip_cb]