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Sound on a Dell Inspiron 3800 (ESS Maestro3) - Loading Modules fails

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Jason Advani

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Apr 2, 2001, 12:45:29 PM4/2/01
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Hi,

I have an Dell Inspiron 3800 (600Mhz, 192MB RAM, 18GIG, etc) Laptop
running RedHat 7.0's stndard kernel 2.2.16. For sound it uses the Maestro3,
but I am unable to get the sound to work. I've tried Zach Brown's maestro3
drivers and I've tried ALSA drivers which support that chip but havn't had
any success.
I am able to compile the drivers just fine, but whenever I insert them
into the kernel via modprobe, I get about a page worth of unresolved
symbols. I load soundcore first too.
Seems like everything wants modversions.h so I grabbed the Linux source
and turned that on and then did a make oldconfig and make dep which gave me
the files that it wants. Will this cause a problem when I go to load them
in? If so does anyone have a kernel config that works well for this Laptop?

Thanks,

Jason


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Ronald Pottol

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Apr 5, 2001, 9:53:39 AM4/5/01
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You are doomed. I looked around, and decided to go with the OSS pay
drivers, which work just fine.

If you find something else that works, please let me know.

Ron

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Marc Dejardin

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Apr 5, 2001, 10:14:11 AM4/5/01
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You can try kernel 2.4.x, the maestro3 card is supported in there.
(2.4.3 is what i am running now)
There is perhaps just a problem with the recording.
I don't know for the moment if it is my microphone which is bad or the
maestro3 driver which is not correct. But for listening it is OK


Marc Déjardin

Iain Lea

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Apr 8, 2001, 12:41:16 PM4/8/01
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Install kernel 2.4.3 as it supports the Maestro3 audio soundcard :)

I have it running here... neat... the only thing that does not work
is the Fn-Vol+/- keys have no effect... anyone have a fix for that ?

Iain

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Matt Foster

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Apr 8, 2001, 8:52:36 PM4/8/01
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Iain Lea <ia...@bricbrac.de> wrote:
> Install kernel 2.4.3 as it supports the Maestro3 audio soundcard :)

> I have it running here... neat... the only thing that does not work
> is the Fn-Vol+/- keys have no effect... anyone have a fix for that ?

> Iain

It works under 2.2.19 if memory serves correctly as well.

Matt

Julien Quint

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Apr 9, 2001, 5:51:47 AM4/9/01
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Matt Foster <ma...@molnir.demon.co.uk> writes:

It works on 2.2.17 (Mandrake 7.2) but requires an external driver. On the
other hand, the sound output is *very* low compared to Windows. I wonder
what is wrong here? (I am using the driver from
http://www.zabbo.net/maestro/, as I couldn't get the latest Alsa stuff to
compile...)

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Jason Advani

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Apr 9, 2001, 4:37:49 PM4/9/01
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"Iain Lea" <ia...@bricbrac.de> wrote in message
news:Mw0A6.1$fF4...@news.ecrc.de...

> Install kernel 2.4.3 as it supports the Maestro3 audio soundcard :)
>
> I have it running here... neat... the only thing that does not work
> is the Fn-Vol+/- keys have no effect... anyone have a fix for that ?

I have the same problem...no volume change w/ those keys. I don't think it
would be too difficult to write a kernel module to fix that. Just capture
the keys and poke around in the appropriate device, no? I was reading the
Module Programing Howto and was surprised at how easy, but by no means a
piece of cake, it was to write modules.

Jason


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