Compaq Deskpro XL 560 sound issue

Kevin Brown plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:10:23 -0700


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