[vox-tech] IBM Esssolo1 Sound

[Richard J. Mancusi]

I know this sounds crazy - and the "list" will probably have
a good time with me - but ...

My 390X has good sound, if and only if, I use headphones.  Thru
the speakers it is very distorted and if you turn up the volume
dial on the side of the machine, you get feedback.

Just curious - try headphones and let me know.

Good luck
Rich


D & E Radel wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> This is a long shot, but I'll ask anyways. I have an IBM 390X
> thinkpad. In short the soundcard is an ESS Solo and can
> use the Kernel OSS modules or the Alsa esssolo1 drivers.
> 
> However, both drivers only produce distorted garbage out 
> the speakers. The card runs fine under Windows partition.
> 
> I also tried SuSE 8.1 and Knoppix. They both detected the
> hardware fine and installed the drivers automatically, but 
> still garbage comes out the speakers.
> 
> This is a common problem with the Linux drivers for this
> system. The only solution I have heard of is a real hack.
> That is, the computer boot to dos partition, loads the dos
> drivers, then runs Linux via loadlin. Not really a reasonable
> option in this day and age.
> 
> Has anyone come across a similar scenario or have a
> possible solution? There are IRQ settings in the cmos,
> but not necessarily related directly to the sound card.
> 
> Any help, greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! :-)
> Dietrich
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