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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 11:58:34 +0100
From: Abramo Bagnara <abbagnara@racine.ra.it>
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Subject: Re: es1888a
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joehick wrote:
> 
> > This is the time to test the new driver snd-audiodrive18xx in latest
> > CVS.
> > Your chip are untested.
> > Give us any feedback.
> >
> 
> okay i took your advice and now run into more problems ;{
> Pre-configuring alsa-driver
> Pre-configuring alsa-lib
> aclocal: configure.in: 12: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library
> configure.in:22: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross
> compiling
> Pre-configuring alsa-utils
> 
> i tried playing around with it a bit and still have troubles i tried
> compile'n just the latest driver stuff and...
> kernel: snd: [0x220] ESS: unknown AudioDrive chip ES5b5b
> snd: ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard #1 not found at 0x220 or device busy
> modprobe: can't locate module sound-service-0-0

The driver seems to fail in soundcard identification.
I know for sure from datasheets of 1868, 1869, 1878, 1879 that the chips
can be identified in the way the driver try.
I can't find the datasheets for 1887 and 1888(a), but AFAIK these
chips are very similar to the others.
Obviously there are some difference that I don't know.
Reading the sources of ess drivers in kernel 2.2.1 I've found the 
confirmation that normal identification fails with your chip.
If you can find the datasheet please inform me and I'll add
the support for your card.

Abramo

