The toman diaries

Suse and ALSA

lørdag, januar 10, 2004

And here you go: Kevin W asked me kindly to go on with the description on how I got sound working in Suse on a Compaq Presario 5030, because his ESS es1371 card wasn't working in his Mandrake box. I believe Mandrake uses the same sound-setup as RedHat and Fedora, namely sndconfig, so this will probably not apply. Also the es1371 card isn't the same as es1869. Anyway, this is the story:

Run yast sound as root in a konsole. You can also use the more graphical Yast2 from the KDE control center, the steps are the same.
Answer the questions as they come, and let Yast (or alsa, is it?) probe for old cards. You'll then be taken to a screen without any cards listed. Choose Add card and scroll to ESS in the left pane before you choose es18xx from the right. Click next, then choose 'Advanced, with possibility to change settings'. You should see a list of settings there. Click the 'PNP-detection for es18xx ...' entry. Type 0 in the field at the bottom and click Set. If you now click Next, your card should be all set!
(Note that I'm still very new to linux, so if this doesn't work for you, look elsewhere :-)