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From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
To: "Kenneth P. Turvey" <kturvey@pug1.sprocketshop.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with alsa sound drivers for Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI
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On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:

> I just recently purchased an Ensoniq AudioPCI sound card by Creative
> labs.  My original intention was to use this card with the commercial
> OSS drivers (to get the full duplex audio capabilities) and the
> application Speak Freely.  Actually, someone at 4Front suggested the
> card.  
> 
> Unfortunately, after jumping through several hoops, they told me that they
> only supported the development kernels as a courtesy and they didn't know
> why it wasn't working.  They had said it wouldn't work under 2.0.34 due
> to problems with PCI, and I upgraded to 2.1.129 at their advice.

ALSA AudioPCI driver works under 2.0.X kernels as well..

> So here I am.  I have tried installing the ALSA drivers with roughly the
> same level of success.  I hope that the users of this mailing list may
> be able to help me get this all worked out.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> The drivers build fine, install fine, but just don't work.  When I use
> 'aplay' to play a long sound I get a write error and these messages in
> the kernel:
> 
> Nov 27 20:47:46 pug1 kernel: snd: pcm_user_to_dma: timeout, new block discarded 
> Nov 27 20:47:56 pug1 kernel: snd: snd_pcm1_flush_playback: timeout, skipping waiting blocks 
> Nov 27 20:55:21 pug1 kernel: snd: snd: requested ports 0x6000-0x603f busy 

This looks like serious problem. Your card probably doesn't generate
interrupts... Can you send me contents of 'cat /proc/pci' and 'cat
/proc/interrupts'?

> No sound is played. 
> 
> Soundcard:  Creative Labs Ensoniq AudioPCI

Which chip? ES1370 or ES1371 (cat /proc/asound/cards reports it). Maybe
you can try 0.2.0pre10p2 driver which should fix some problems...

							Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
Academic Computer Centre, University of South Bohemia
Branisovska 31, C. Budejovice, CZ-370 05 Czech Republic


