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For having had a similar laptop, isn't your soundchip controlled
by the bios, adress, irq and dma wise, since this chip uses sb emulation
and not compatibility if I remember correctly.

Hope this can help.


ST

baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> BL2 on a Toshiba Satellite 420CDT, 100MHz, 24MB RAM.
> Custom 2.2.16 kernel with sound support as modules.
>
> Chips and Technology video works at 800x600 with X_SVGA.
> svgalib works with the default drive (with libvga.config set to chipset 
> VGA - it works in full color, otherwise won't display jpegs).
>
> Audio chip is said to be ESS688, which is fully sb compatible.
> It appears to be ISA not PCI, since after I
> insmod soundcore
> insmod soundlow (2.2.16 kernel)
> insmod sound
> insmod uart401
> insmod opl3 io=0x388 [for FM synthesis of midi sounds]
> insmod sb
>
> I am told io irq and dma are obligatory  (ISA not PCI sound chip)
> Web research suggests irq 10.
>
> insmod sb io=0x220 irq=10 dma=1
>
> sb:  dsp reset failed
> sb: init_module:  sb: Device or resource busy.
>
> This suggests I have the wrong module (not an sb-compatible).
> (One BL newbie reported these same error messages to linuxquestions and 
> turned out to have a non-sb sound chip onboard).
>
> What else might I try?  I could make a Smart Boot Manager floppy boot disk 
> and try to boot DSL from CD (non-graphical, type DSL 2 at Boot: 
> prompt) and see if it will identify the chip, but someone else reported 
> that DSL does not work with a similar Toshiba model.  Several websites 
> say this model has ESS688 which is sb.
>
> I could try a Slackware bare.i kernel (or is there a specific sound 
> kernel?).
>
> I also have a DELL with ESS1688 sound that supposedly is also sb.
>
> Sindi Keesan
>
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