Compaq Deskpro XL 560 sound issue

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Author: Kevin Brown
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Subject: Compaq Deskpro XL 560 sound issue
Don't know what distro you are using on it, but under RedHat I use sndconfig to
configure sound. Got sound working on the laptop, the Alpha and a few other
boxes with it. Helped that I peeked at windows to find out the hardware :)

> Nancy Sollars wrote:
>
> Hey Guys,
>
> As ive already harked on about it the sound card in this thing is :-
>
> Analog Devices chip AD1847 which is compatible with the Alsa AD1848 module
>
> I read on a solaris page that someone got this running and gave the Base Port
> addresses
>
> 0x530    0x604    0xE80    0xF40

>
> ive tried this with:
>
> modprobe snd-card-ad1848 snd_port= ( one of the above ) snd_irq=5 snd_dma1=1
>
> and yup you guessed it the card is not found at any of those addresses
>
> the Alsa modules were compiled with the following
>
> ./configure --with-isapnp=auto --with-sequencer=yes --with-oss=yes
>
> Would anyone have any idea's?
>
> Windows uses Windows Sound System both 0x530 and SoundBlaster support 0x220
> are used on Irq 5 and dma 1 -- 2 entries in sound-devices in the hardware
> manager.
>
> But the modules dont find it at all under linux.
>
> Regards
>
> Nige