Soundcard: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E

**c123** · 03-23-2003, 12:06 AM

Hello again,

ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)

This is a pretty standard laptop soundcard (from more than three years ago) and already works in Knoppix, according to http://linuxwiki.de/KNOPPIX_2fHardwa...ank_2fNotebook (second Dell entry).

Only in my notebook, nothing's happening. Below is the appropriate lspci -v entry, not sure if there's anything else I should include (pretty new to this gnu/linux stuff).
Once again, many thanks for any help...

Chris

00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 0665
Flags: medium devsel
I/O ports at f800 [disabled] [size=256]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

**rickenbacherus** · 03-24-2003, 01:20 AM

Become root:

su
<give it the password>

sndconfig

**c123** · 03-30-2003, 10:01 PM

Thanks, will try that when I next boot up my old laptop (been a hectic week...) and report back.

**c123** · 04-09-2003, 09:37 PM

Tried that, soundcard is supported. Was adivsed by the confgiurator to ensure that "PnP OS" is set to "no" in BIOS. Did that and now all works fine.

Thanks!