no /dev/dsp present and not automatically recognized es1869 snd card

[miguipda]

Hi,

I am working on a Compaq Deskpro EN Series SFF (600 Mhz, 256 Mb, 40 Gb, ATI Rage pro
and ES1869 (SB16) motherboard integrated HW).

My sound was not automatically recognized under ubuntu. I tried "insmod snd-es18xx"
and then it works well.

As I prefer to work with KDE I decide to optimize my installation and then download
the kubuntu cd and install it. Doing this let me reduce the size on my HD by
preventing gnome occupation and undesired (sorry for who like it).

Actually, since I installed Kubuntu I can't use the sound.
Since three days I tried all I found on the different forums. Nothing changed.

The main problem I I receive a popup windows telling me :
"Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device."

Then I searched to first create the /dev/dsp and tried to use the MAKEDEV (see man
MAKEDEV) as explained in the (/dev) MAKEDEV man page. Nothing changed.

Then if I hope to be able to use my integrated sound card which previously worked I
first need to be able to have a /dev/dsp I presume.

So, let me please tell me how or what must I do under the Kubuntu to be able to ear
sound. I sincerely need it because I each days phone (VoIP) with Skype in many places
in the world. Sincerely thanks for your help.

Please find here below my dmesg, lspci, lsmod (please take notes I do the three
modprobe fo snd-pcm-oss, snd-mixer-oss,snd-seq-oss before trying the modprobe with
snd-es18xx (or even snd-sb16). I tell SB16 because I was surprised to see that the
AIDA (now renamed EVEREST) that both ES1869 and SB16 was simultaneously present on my
motherboard.

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My dsmeg :

# dmesg
Linux version 2.6.10-5-386 (buildd@terranova) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian
1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2)) #1 Tue Apr 5 12:12:40 UTC 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000010000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
256MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 65536
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 61440 pages, LIFO batch:15
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.1 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 COMPAQ ) @ 0x000e0010
ACPI: RSDT (v001 COMPAQ CPQB053 0x19990821 0x00000000) @ 0x000e0080
ACPI: FADT (v001 COMPAQ SCARAB 0x00000001 0x00000000) @ 0x000e00cc
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ VILLTBL1 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x000e09c3
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ PNP_PRSS 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x000e19c0
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ PME 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x000e2134
ACPI: DSDT (v001 COMPAQ DSDT 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xf808
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 ro quiet splash
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (01204000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Detected 597.587 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 252188k/262144k available (1436k kernel code, 9372k reserved, 754k data, 224k
init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 1183.74 BogoMIPS (lpj=591872)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found!
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0800)
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers); looks like an
initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 4248k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xed8e3, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
** PCI interrupts are no longer routed automatically. If this
** causes a device to stop working, it is probably because the
** driver failed to call pci_enable_device(). As a temporary
** workaround, the "pci=routeirq" argument restores the old
** behavior. If this argument makes the device work again,
** please email the output of "lspci" to <email address hidden>
** so I can fix the driver.
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x15c-0x15d has been reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0c: ioport range 0xf800-0xf81f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0c: ioport range 0xf820-0xf83f has been reserved
pnp: 00:0c: ioport range 0xfc00-0xfc0f has been reserved
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1122306635.623:0): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (<email address hidden>)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 54 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a NS16550A
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a NS16550A
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 2
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Restarting tasks...<6> Strange, kswapd0 not stopped
 Strange, kseriod not stopped
 done
ACPI wakeup devices:
PCI0 RTC PS2M KBD COM1 COM2 USB0 PBTN
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 4248KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2040-0x2047, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2048-0x204f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: ST320420A, ATA DISK drive
elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 39851760 sectors (20404 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39535/16/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes not supported
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 >
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: Compaq CRN-8241B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
Stopping tasks: ==|
Freeing memory... done (455 pages freed)
Restarting tasks... done
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Adding 1028120k swap on /dev/hda1. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA]
parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 690C
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
Capability LSM initialized
device-mapper: 4.3.0-ioctl (2004-09-30) initialised: <email address hidden>
md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: packet command error: error=0x54
ide: failed opcode was 100
cdrom: open failed.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
input: PC Speaker
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.10-5-386
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 440BX Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 204M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0x44000000
cpci_hotplug: CompactPCI Hot Plug Core version: 0.2
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.2.3-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0x42000000, irq 11, MAC addr 00:50:8B:FB:03:1F
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:14.2[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: irq 11, io base 0x2020
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
NET: Registered protocol family 17
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
hub 1-2:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-2:1.0: 4 ports detected
piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.3: Found 0000:00:14.3 device
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02f0500(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
vga16fb: initializing
vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
ibm_acpi: ec object not found
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
ibm_acpi: ec object not found
lp0: ECP mode
lp0: ECP mode
lp0: ECP mode
lp0: ECP mode
lp0: ECP mode
lp0: ECP mode
lp0: ECP mode
lp0: ECP mode
lp0: ECP mode
ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device busy
ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device busy
ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device busy
ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device busy
ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device busy
ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device busy
Sound Blaster 16 soundcard not found or device busy
In case, if you have AWE card, try snd-sbawe module
ESS AudioDrive ES18xx soundcard not found or device busy

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My lsmod :

# lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_sb16_dsp 10496 0
snd_sb16_csp 19072 0
snd_sb_common 14848 2 snd_sb16_dsp,snd_sb16_csp
snd_seq_midi 8224 0
snd_seq_oss 30080 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7424 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 46992 5 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_opl3_lib 10112 0
snd_hwdep 9220 2 snd_sb16_csp,snd_opl3_lib
snd_mpu401_uart 7168 0
snd_rawmidi 22944 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8332 5
snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd_pcm_oss 47652 0
snd_pcm 84872 2 snd_sb16_dsp,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 23300 3 snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9604 1 snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss 16768 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd 50276 14
snd_sb16_dsp,snd_sb16_csp,snd_sb_common,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore 9824 1 snd
speedstep_lib 4228 0
proc_intf 4100 0
freq_table 4100 0
cpufreq_userspace 4572 0
cpufreq_ondemand 6172 0
cpufreq_powersave 1920 0
video 16260 0
sony_acpi 6280 0
pcc_acpi 11264 0
button 6800 0
battery 10244 0
container 4608 0
ac 4996 0
vga16fb 12488 1
vgastate 8576 1 vga16fb
ipv6 229504 9
i2c_piix4 8592 0
i2c_core 21264 1 i2c_piix4
af_packet 20744 2
uhci_hcd 30224 0
usbcore 107384 2 uhci_hcd
e100 32384 0
mii 4736 1 e100
pci_hotplug 30512 0
intel_agp 20636 1
agpgart 31784 1 intel_agp
floppy 54864 0
pcspkr 3816 0
rtc 12216 0
nls_iso8859_1 4224 1
nls_cp437 5888 1
vfat 12928 1
fat 37792 1 vfat
md 43856 0
dm_mod 53116 1
evdev 9088 0
capability 5000 0
tsdev 7488 0
commoncap 7808 1 capability
psmouse 19336 0
mousedev 11160 1
parport_pc 34372 1
lp 10792 0
parport 33480 2 parport_pc,lp
ide_cd 38532 1
cdrom 36508 1 ide_cd
ext3 120968 1
jbd 54168 1 ext3
ide_generic 1664 0
piix 9988 1
ide_disk 18176 4
ide_core 118988 4 ide_cd,ide_generic,piix,ide_disk
unix 26164 528
thermal 13576 0
processor 22708 1 thermal
fan 4612 0
fbcon 34048 71
font 8448 1 fbcon
bitblit 5120 1 fbcon
vesafb 6948 0
cfbcopyarea 3968 2 vga16fb,vesafb
cfbimgblt 3072 2 vga16fb,vesafb
cfbfillrect 3584 2 vga16fb,vesafb

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My modinfo snd-es18xx :

# modinfo snd-es18xx
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.ko
author: Christian Fischbach <email address hidden>, Abramo
Bagnara <email address hidden>
description: ESS ES18xx AudioDrive
license: GPL
parm: index:Index value for ES18xx soundcard.
parm: id:ID string for ES18xx soundcard.
parm: enable:Enable ES18xx soundcard.
parm: isapnp:PnP detection for specified soundcard.
parm: port:Port # for ES18xx driver.
parm: mpu_port:MPU-401 port # for ES18xx driver.
parm: fm_port:FM port # for ES18xx driver.
parm: irq:IRQ # for ES18xx driver.
parm: dma1:DMA 1 # for ES18xx driver.
parm: dma2:DMA 2 # for ES18xx driver.
vermagic: 2.6.10-5-386 preempt 386 gcc-3.3
depends: snd-pcm,snd,snd-opl3-lib,snd-mpu401-uart
alias: pnp:cESS1868dESS1868dESS0000*
alias: pnp:cESS1868dESS8601dESS8600*
alias: pnp:cESS1868dESS8611dESS8610*
alias: pnp:cESS0003dESS1869dESS0006*
alias: pnp:cESS1869dESS1869dESS0006*
alias: pnp:cESS1878dESS1878dESS0004*
alias: pnp:cESS1879dESS1879dESS0009*
srcversion: 2A7952BB92B73FC3A09BEC9

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My partial /etc/modprobe.d/alias :

# character devices ##########################################################
alias char-major-9 st
install char-major-10 /bin/true
...
alias char-major-81 videodev
...

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My partial /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base :

# autoloader aliases
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
install sound-service-0-0 modprobe snd-card-0 snd-mixer-oss
install sound-service-0-1 modprobe snd-card-0 snd-seq-oss
install sound-service-0-3 modprobe snd-card-0 snd-pcm-oss
install sound-service-0-8 modprobe snd-card-0 snd-seq-oss
install sound-service-0-12 modprobe snd-card-0 snd-pcm-oss
install sound-slot-0 modprobe snd-card-0
install sound-slot-1 modprobe snd-card-1
install sound-slot-2 modprobe snd-card-2
install sound-slot-3 modprobe snd-card-3
install sound-slot-4 modprobe snd-card-4
install sound-slot-5 modprobe snd-card-5
install sound-slot-6 modprobe snd-card-6
install sound-slot-7 modprobe snd-card-7
# Load optional modules above their base modules
install snd-pcm modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && { modprobe snd-pcm-oss ; : ; }
install snd-mixer modprobe --ignore-install snd-mixer && { modprobe
snd-mixer-oss ; : ; }
install snd-seq modprobe --ignore-install snd-seq && { modprobe snd-seq-oss ; modprobe
snd-seq-midi ; : ; }
# Cause a script to be run after snd-emu8000-synth module initialization
install snd-emu8000-synth modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu8000-synth
&& /lib/alsa/modprobe-post-install snd-emu8000-synth
# Cause a script to be run after card driver module initialization
...
install snd-es18xx modprobe --ignore-install snd-es18xx
&& /lib/alsa/modprobe-post-install snd-es18xx
...

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My /etc/modutils seems to contains the same alsa-base file

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No /etc/modules.conf exist.

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

> My sound was not automatically recognized under ubuntu. I tried
> "insmod snd-es18xx" and then it works well.

If snd-es18xx still is not loaded automatically at boot time,
add 'snd-es18xx' to the /etc/modules file.

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

If snd-es18xx still is not loaded automatically at boot time,
add 'snd-es18xx' to the /etc/modules file.

Let us know if you manage to solve the problem.

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

No information has forthcome. Closing.