On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Yuri McPhedran wrote:
> 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
Try this:
alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4232 isapnp=0 port=0x530 sb_port=0x220 \
fm_port=0x388 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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