I am having problems setting up alsa sound on my old compaq armada 1750 the sound card is an old non plug and play es 1688. In short:
1. alsa, alsa-modules, alsaconf are installed on boot yet when I run "sudo alsaconf" It dosn't detect my soundcard.
2. I install the modules for the sound card manualy as per the alsa web site
sudo modprobe snd-es1688
sudo modprobe snd-pcm-oss
sudo modprobe snd-mixer-oss
sudo modprobe snd-seq-oss
All modules are loaded successfully
I then run sudo alsaconf
and it dosn't detect or set up my sound card.
I run > "sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/alsasound start" it gives me the error "amixer attach default error: No such file or directory Something went wrong, sound was not set up"
Question : What am I doing wrong? This is a list of loaded modules:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd_seq_dummy 648 0
snd_seq_oss 15364 0
snd_seq_midi_event 2624 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 26036 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss 24484 0
snd_mixer_oss 8648 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_es1688 2176 0
snd_opl3_lib 4888 1 snd_es1688
snd_hwdep 3004 1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_es1688_lib 6704 1 snd_es1688
snd_pcm 37628 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_es1688_lib
snd_timer 10564 3 snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 4016 1 snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 2780 1 snd_es1688
snd_rawmidi 10004 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 2808 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd 26200 13 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_es1688,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_es1688_lib,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 2640 1 snd
cdc_acm 10364 2
vfat 5596 0
fat 30220 1 vfat
joydev 5808 0
squashfs 14724 30
3c59x 22084 0
pcmcia 12756 0
scsi_wait_scan 276 0
ramzswap 10240 1
yenta_socket 13432 3
rsrc_nonstatic 5780 1 yenta_socket
loop 8068 60
pcmcia_core 17332 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic