Rob, Your post is precisely what these lists are for and gives me some very helpful ideas! Thanks!
I will try a few things to emulate what you did and report back as to what happens. Thanks again! doc > On Friday 11 January 2002 03:17 pm, Doc wrote: > > Al: > > > > What sound card are you runing, please? I am so far unable > > to get my CS4237B card recognized. (That is what the HP site > > says is in it.) > > I too, have an Omnibook 4100 (2.4.8 kernel) with that same sound chip, and > have spent a few hours on this recently to varying degrees of success. > I cheated a bit and installed sndconfig. > I had to play with the manual settings for the sound chip in the BIOS before > I got to hear Linus yapping out my speakers (manually clearing out > modules.conf and rmmod'ing after each failed attempt helped). On this kernel > I've been able to get it to use the sb module - *not* the CS42xx module. SOX > output is fine...crisp and clear so far. However, OSS and alsa have been > total crap...at least as far as the xmms outputs go. When I have more time to > play, I'll work more on those. According to the Omnibook 4100 page I came > across, http://www.urbaczewski.com/omnibooklinux.htm , commercial OSS drivers > were necessary to get it running, at least for the 2.2.16 kernel with Suse > 7.0. I'd like to try and avoid that if possible. > > > I am also running into video conflicts on my 4100. Did you > > have to do anything special? (I have the 14" LCD.) > > I have the 13.3" display here, using XFree 4.1.0. XFree's config found the > Neomagic video without a problem. I set it up for a Generic Laptop Display, > 1024x768 and it's got Blackbox looking pretty sharp. Previously, I'd had it > setup for the Generic Laptop Display, 800x600 and it looked like utter > garbage...1024x768 was the way to go for me. > Hope this is appropriate, and helps. I've been reading this list for some > time now, but not posted before. > > -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
