Hello,
Despite my earnest attempts, I failed at getting sound work on my
Inspiron 3000 running RedHat 5.1 with Kernel 2.0.35. Catting
/usr/share/sndcondig/hello.au to /dev/audio yields a short
"Hell..." before the greeting is cut-off. The x11amp player
immediately becomes stuck and repeats the first few hundred
milliseconds of a song. Sound effects generated by Window Maker
are ... interesting. Strangely enough, playing audio CDs works
just fine.
Here's my config: Following David McMillan's advice posted to this
list some weeks ago, I installed the OSS/Free patch 38s9 and
re-compiled the kernel with
Sound card support: YES
Crystal CS4232 based: YES
SoftOSS: YES
FM synth (YM3812/OPL-3) support: YES
CSS4232 audio I/O base: 530
CSS4232 audio IRQ: 7
CSS4232 audio DMA: 1
CSS4232 second (duplex) DMA: 3
CSS4232 MIDI I/O base: 330 [where do people pull this one out?]
CSS4232 MIDI IRQ: 9
Sampling rate: 22050
Max # voices: 32
and all other questions answered with NO. My BIOS settings are
Serial: Auto
Infrared: Disabled
Parallel: Disabled
SB: 220
WSS: 530
AbLib: 388
IRQ: 7
DMA: 1,3
but I tried IRQ 5 as well. My /dev/sndstat looks like
OSS/Free3.8s9-980302 (Sat Nov 7 01:01:04 EST 1998 root,
Linux dada.cs.cornell.edu 2.0.35 #5 Fri Nov 6 18:12:50 EST 1998 i586
unknown)
Load type: Driver compiled into kernel
Kernel: Linux dada.cs.cornell.edu 2.0.35 #7 Sat Nov 7 01:17:47 EST 1998 i586
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 21: CS4232
Type 22: CS4232 MIDI
Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
Type 26: MPU-401 (UART)
Type 36: SoftOSS Virtual Wave Table
Card config:
SoftOSS Virtual Wave Table
CS4232 MIDI at 0x330 irq 9 drq 0
CS4232 at 0x530 irq 7 drq 1,3
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0
Audio devices:
0: Crystal audio controller (CS4236) (DUPLEX)
Synth devices:
0: SoftOSS
1: Yamaha OPL-3
Midi devices:
Timers:
0: System clock
1: SoftOSS
Mixers:
0: Crystal audio controller (CS4236)
BTW, I once changed the IRQ in the BIOS but not in the kernel,
causing an error during sound initialization. The /dev/sndstat
looked identical, though; this suggest little diagnostic value for
debugging purposes.
Can anyone help me out? I can't even remember how often I
recompiled my kernel in order to get this working ... I know some
people settled with using their Crystal in SB mode, but maybe, with
joint forces, we can do a little better.
Ralph
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