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es1888 audio and PWS500au
My alpha has a built-in ES1888 sound card on its ISA bus. Does anyone
have one that works?

This old thread indicates that there are hardware problems:
http://osdir.com/ml/linux.ports.alpha/2008-03/msg00056.html

Alsa and the snd-es18xx modules load fine, the mixer works, nothing is
muted, etc. Trying a wav file with aplay gives some pcm error.

The obvious solution is to scare up a PCI sound card. It would be nice
if someone could tell me the built-in card works for them.

Adios, DW
Re: es1888 audio and PWS500au [ In reply to ]
Can't help you there. Have never bothered with the sound as I'm using
my alpha mostly as a web server and remote X server.



On 5/28/2013 18:39, Don Wilburn wrote:
> My alpha has a built-in ES1888 sound card on its ISA bus. Does anyone
> have one that works?
>
> This old thread indicates that there are hardware problems:
> http://osdir.com/ml/linux.ports.alpha/2008-03/msg00056.html
>
> Alsa and the snd-es18xx modules load fine, the mixer works, nothing is
> muted, etc. Trying a wav file with aplay gives some pcm error.
>
> The obvious solution is to scare up a PCI sound card. It would be nice
> if someone could tell me the built-in card works for them.
>
> Adios, DW
>