Greetings. I've been trying to make the ALSA PCI es1968 sound
driver work, for both playback and mic-in recording, with no
success. I've tried kernel versions 2.5.53, 2.5.59, and 2.5.60,
with no luck. I believe that it has to do with the driver
itself, as I can successfully use the ALSA cmipci driver for
both recording and playback. Fortunately, the cmipci chipset
sucks for recording, or I may never have had the motivation to
find and report this bug :)
Unfortunately, I don't know how to give good information for
debugging, only some half-assed descriptions of the symptoms:
1. KMixer won't show the card, just a big empty spot.
2. My favorite synthesizer program, AlsaModularSyth, crashes
immediately upon attempted load.
3. Zinf (formerly freeamp) tells me it can't open audio device
/dev/dsp.
I am using Gentoo 1.4rc1, which means I am using devfs, if that
helps any.
Please let me know if there is a way I can provide better
debugging info.
---scott