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We have a number of Compaq Deskpro EN-SFF P450 PCs. These are small-form-factor Pentium IIIs with Compaq quality. I believe these have the ESS1869 soundcard.
The BIOS settings on our PCs are io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5; your settings may be different!
They worked flawlessly under LTSP4.2 with the following LTS.conf configuration:
SMODULE_01 = "snd-es18xx irq=5"
Since upgrading to LTSP5, sound has ceased to function.
I booted the client and typed ++ to bring up the client console and typed:
# lsmod | grep snd
Which returned nothing, showing that sound was definitely not loaded (no surprise there!).
Next I tried typing:
# modprobe snd-es18xx ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device busy FATAL: Error inserting snd_es18xx (/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-486/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.ko): No such device
| Next I Googled "(ltsp5 | edubuntu) snd-es18xx" which produced the following thread: |
This was not specific to LTSP5, nevertheless it gave a useful configuration:
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-es18xx options snd-es18xx index=0 enable=1 isapnp=0 port=0x220 mpu_port=0x388 fm_port=0x330 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0 alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-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
In particular the following line looked useful:
options snd-es18xx index=0 enable=1 isapnp=0 port=0x220 mpu_port=0x388 fm_port=0x330 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0
Still in the client console I typed:
# modprobe snd-es18xx index=0 enable=1 isapnp=0 port=0x220 mpu_port=0x388 fm_port=0x330 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0 #
And the sound module loaded fine. I then ran:
# speaker-test speaker-test 1.0.13 Playback device is default Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels Using 16 octaves of pink noise …
And sound was working fine.
So obviously all we need to do is to set in LTS.conf and we should be sorted:
SMODULE_01 = "snd-es18xx index=0 enable=1 isapnp=0 port=0x220 mpu_port=0x388 fm_port=0x330 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0"
But no joy! Thinking that the issue was with an incompatibility with one of the above switches and LTSP, I experimented with removing all the switches and just adding some back; the aim being to end up with a minimal set of switches that worked. On a hunch I tried:
# modprobe snd-es18xx isapnp=0
And the speaker-test worked. Adding this to LTS.conf
SMODULE_01 = "snd-es18xx isapnp=0"
And it still didn't work. For some reason, that I cannot find documented, SMODULE is no longer working, and needs replacing with MODULE - thus:
MODULE_01 = "snd-es18xx isapnp=0"
All now working.
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