Re: total Sound catastrophy

[Adam Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>At boot I get the message that the device or resource
>is busy and I can see that its not using any IRQs here
> #cat /proc/interrupts
>            CPU0
>   0:     274465          XT-PIC  timer
>   1:       4834          XT-PIC  keyboard
>   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>   8:          2          XT-PIC  rtc
>  11:      53081          XT-PIC  eth0
>  12:      50712          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
>  13:          1          XT-PIC  fpu
>  14:     626802          XT-PIC  ide0
>  15:        156          XT-PIC  ide1
> NMI:          0

This file only shows interrupts claimed by a loaded driver.

> Yet PCI device is found with
> #cat /proc/pci
> PCI devices found:
>     Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq Unknown
> device (rev 2).
>       Vendor id=1274. Device id=5880.
>       Slow devsel.  IRQ 9.  Master Capable.
> Latency=96.  Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128.
>       I/O at 0x1040 [0x1041].
> isn't it odd that its listed as IRQ 9 in /proc/pci but
> not listed as having an interrupt

Nope, see above.

> and its listed in proc/modules but it isn't being used
> #cat /proc/modules
> Module                  Size  Used by
> snd-pcm1-oss           13156   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> snd-pcm1               17372   0  (autoclean)
> [snd-pcm1-oss]
> snd-pcm                 8492   0  (autoclean)
> [snd-pcm1-oss snd-pcm1]
> snd-timer               8092   0  (autoclean)
> [snd-pcm1]
> snd                    33568   0  (autoclean)
> [snd-pcm1-oss snd-pcm1 snd-pcm snd-timer]
> parport_probe           3204   0  (autoclean)
> parport_pc              5808   1  (autoclean)
> lp                      5828   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> parport                 6984   1  (autoclean)
> [parport_probe parport_pc lp]
> serial                 42932   0  (autoclean)
> memstat                 1604   0  (unused)

What does /etc/conf.modules look like?

Is this the kernel with the build in driver (you mention below) or the 
modular driver?

>Yes I followed SOUND-HOWTO and followed instructions
>for es1371.o to be loaded as a module. I know about
>the es1371 issue and have followed instructions to fix
>it. I also tried building a new kernel w/module built
>right in. That didn't work either. Alsaconf seemed to
>work at first but it didn't fix the problem

>The sound card works in Windows and uses IRQ 9

Take a gander in the Windows control-panel and see if it's reporting the 
same IO address.