Re: Setting up ISA soundcard to Fedora 2 manually?

From: Walter Schiessberg (nospam.news_at_arcor.de)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:38:29 +0200

Tommy Reynolds wrote on 29.08.2004 23:10:

> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 10:37:41 +0300, Antti Nietula wrote:
>
>
>>I have a problems setting up my ISA soundcard. Its chipset is ES1686.
>>But how can I set it to work when Fedora's own wizard (Fedora core 2)
>>can't find it?
>
>
> I don't recognize that chipset and google.com cannot find anything
> for "es1676 linux".

OP: "ES1686"

> The Linux wizard doesn't respond because the chip does not appear to
> be supported: I do not think Linux has a device driver for this sound
> chip and getting ALSA will not help you.

The OP surely means ESS1686 (had this in my old Compaq EN). This chipset
should be supported and recognised by redhat-config-soundcard.

Walter

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