[wellylug] ess sound card

[Bill Christiansen]

On 9/2/07, Rob Collins <robcollins55 at aim.com> wrote:
>
>  Does anyone know what my next step might be if my elive gem installation
> is not even recognising that there is a sound card onboard?  (lspci -v
> returns all the harware except the sound card).  Not surprisingly alsaconf
> then does not see it either.  The module that I know works with it is module
> es1688.  According to the originator(s) of elive gem the whole system
> comprises of a fairly unmodified debian with enlightenment desktop on top.
>
> I downloaded elive_gem-1.0 (stable) via the torrent on distropedia to give
> it a test drive on an old laptop as that also has an ess sound card. It
> loaded all the sound modules automatically including snd_es1968 and I got
> the intro music as soon as the desktop loaded and xmms can play mp3's and
> mplayer works too. Have you tried the different boot options and make sure
> you have the stable release and it may pay to even reburn the CD in case it
> has some corruption. I'm running off the live CD as I type and it's looks
> quite impressive and has some unusual desktop animations.


Bill
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