CentOS - Oct 2006 - CentOS 3.8 and ESS ES1878 sound chip?

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Hi,

I can't seem to be able to get any sound out of my CentOS 3.8 laptop.  I
have the ESS ES1878 chip in it.  It can work in either native mode, or
in SoundBlaster compatible mode.  Neither is detected by CentOS 3.8.
I've looked at the directory with kernel drivers, and there doesn't seem
to be any kernel module that smells like either ES1878 or SoundBlaster.
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Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I can't seem to be able to get any sound out of my CentOS 3.8 laptop.  I
| have the ESS ES1878 chip in it.  It can work in either native mode, or
| in SoundBlaster compatible mode.  Neither is detected by CentOS 3.8.
| I've looked at the directory with kernel drivers, and there doesn't
seem
| to be any kernel module that smells like either ES1878 or SoundBlaster.

Hmmm...  After a bit more Googling, it seems the problem might be that
the onboard sound card is ISA.  Is there an easy way to get isapnp
kernel module for CentOS 3.8, other than recompiling the kernel (don't
have compilers and stuff on the machine, the compilation would probably
take about forever on that old laptop, and I doubt there's enough disk
space to do it)?
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Aleksandar
>> the onboard  sound card is ISA.   Is there an  easy way to get  isapnp
kernel
>> module for CentOS 3.8, other than recompiling the kernel
This card can be configured and you can make it work using 'isapnptools'
.

http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/

Best ....
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Raghavendra Bhat
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Regards
Raghavendra Bhat