[ltp] USB not working in 2.6.x on 390e

[Rolf]

Helen Borrie wrote:

>
>> At 07:18 PM 31/08/2005 +0000, "Rolf" wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone else have this problem or a suggestion on how to fix. Due to 
>>> this I am still on 2.4 so my USB sound card works.
>>
>
> At 01:28 PM 1/09/2005 +1000, I wrote:
>
>> When I get a chance later today, I'll give it a whirl with my iMic 
>> soundcard and let you know what happens.
>
>
> Yup, the iMic is detected and all the right things seem to 
> happen...the system gives an excellent lip-sync imitation of a working 
> sound system.  The only thing that is missing is noise.  :-)  Removing 
> the iMic and then rebooting the tp390e, the ESS soundcard is once 
> again detected, we go through the same process with alsaconf and we 
> are back to the internal soundcard, all trace of the iMic gone.  And 
> still no noise.
>
> Interestingly, when I started up Amarok while I had the iMic active, 
> it terminated gracefully with a "cpu overload" message when I asked it 
> to play an mp3.  Not sure this is anything to worry about, though, as 
> I was running drakconf at the time in another console.
>
> I really WISH I could find some doc that tells me where the 2.6 
> distros have put all the conf stuff.  modules.conf is just an empty 
> file.  I can find a few bits (including the alsa stuff) in 
> /sbin/modprobe.conf. The download versions of Mdk 10.1 and Mandriva 
> 2005 just seem so flaky.  I've been a big fan of Mandrake, for its 
> hardware support, right up to and including v.10.0 but these more 
> recent versions, with their dumb-user graphical interface, make it 
> behave so much like W*** that I'm tempted to start calling it Mandoze 
> and look for a leaner distro.
>
> Anyway, report anything you find out and I'll do the same.  It would 
> be quite handy if we got it working well and put together a howto.
>
> Helen
>
>
>
Im a gentoo user, and my ESSSolo1 card is broken, so I have to rely on 
my USB. the uhci driver fails probing of the mem iirc, will post errors 
tonite.