This is definitely true for Debian 2.x, but I remember Debian 4.0 to have sorted that out. Not sure how far 3.x had come at the time.Isn’t Debian from that time notoriously difficult to set up?
Very bad news, but at least now the OT can cut his loses.It's caused by bad solder joints either on the audio chip itself, or on nearby components.
How do I find that in dxdiag? Can’t seem to locate it.
I don't think ESS chips ever pretended to be Create Labs chips. If Windows detects a Create Labs, then it most likely is Creative Labs and not a clone. My Opti card is detected by Windows 9x as "Sound Blaster Pro" (not Creative Sound Blaster), and my ESS card is also correctly listed as ESS. Neither are PnP cards, though.
This chip is ISA or ISAPnP, so there is no PCI ID to verify. UNISOUND would be able to list the ISAPnP ID, but it does not detect the card at all. Windows detects it, but the DEBUG test showed that no AdLib resources are actually assigned. Curiouser and curiouser.for now. I'd make sure the CMOS battery is good (and CMOS is definitely fully cleared) and then try to boot Linux and read the logs, maybe something sticks out.
I love it that you don't give up. I hope you revive that sound card.Going to reflow it now, let’s hope for the best.
They pretended to be Sound Blasters, but not Creative Sound Blasters.ESS chips most definitely pretended to be Sound Blasters because they wanted to provide DOS compatibility. They had to emulate the SB if they wanted games to work.
ISA cards never have PCI IDs. The PCI-to-ISA bridge itself is a PCI device (with its associated ID), but that doesn't turn the devices behind it into PCI devices. They will not appear in any PCI enumeration. However, ISAPnP devices can be enumerated on their own, so their PNP IDs can be listed. Both PCI IDs and PNP IDs are unique and identify the vendor.As for the card being ISA not showing up on vendor strings, entirely depends on the device and the system it's in. If the ISA bus is provided by a PCI2ISA bridge chip, it's technically a device on the PCI bus. If the ISA card supports PnP, it will be more likely to show up with a vendor ID.
Congratulations! And I have learned that bad solder joints are a thing to consider when dealing with resource conflicts. I'd never have guessed.Thanks guys. And good news! We have a winner.
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I'm very glad to have this one sorted.