I have an old Dell Laptop (64Mb, 233MHz Pentium II Inspiron 3200) on to which I have recently installed RedHat 9. Unfortunately I have not been able to get the sound to work at all, though (dare I say) it works fine under Windows 98.
Various notes at http://www.linux-laptop.net/ seem to suggest that using ALSA should be the answer. The sound card is a "Crystal CS4232", which I believe is the same thing as the "Cirrus Logic CS4232" listed in the ALSA compatibility matrix. I have used the excellent "apt" tool (and "synaptic") from freshrpms.net to install all the latest patches and ALSA drivers. The following alsa related rpms are now installed: alsa-utils-0.9.8-1.fr alsa-driver-0.9.8-1.fr alsaplayer-0.99.75-fr1 alsa-lib-0.9.8-1.fr xmms-alsa-0.9.12-1.fr The kernel is the standard 2.4.20-8 one from RedHat. "modinfo soundcore" gives: filename: /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o description: "Core sound module" author: "Alan Cox" license: "GPL" /etc/modules.conf contains: # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4232 # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss After a fresh boot, none of "dmesg", "lspci" or "lsmod" produce anything that looks at all sound related... should they? Doing "modprobe snd-cs4232" gives "Can't locate module". The BIOS has plug-and-play disabled, and the sound settings are SB=220, WSS=530, adlib=388, interrupt=irq5, 1st dma=1, 2nd dma=0 I have previously tried to put some of these settings into the modules.conf file, but only succeeded in locking up the PC a few times. Running "alsaplayer" (as root) gives lots of "failed to initialize plugin" errors and finally a "This is the null plugin. You will not hear sound" message. So, my question is, what am I doing wrong, and what do I need to do to get sound working? I would rather work with rpm versions of ALSA, but will compile & install the latest tarball if that is what it takes. I have read through piles of documentation & archives, but a lot of it seems contradictory and/or only relevant to older versions of ALSA & Linux. I'm sure I must be missing something simple. -- Regards Yuri ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
