Hi
I mentioned this briefly on irc the phrase "world of pain" was used - thanks for the warning! I just installed Ubuntu Hoary (5.04) on a friend's desktop as his '98 install died. It didn't recognise his soundcard. I'm pretty sure the mobo's a Dell OptiPlex GX1 (I can't read my own handwriting). This has an on board soundcard that's a Crystal Semiconductor Chipset CS4236. The sound worked under knoppix (v3.3) - dmesg|grep isapnp: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: Card 'CS4236B' isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total What I then tried to the best of my recollection*: # modprobe snd-cs4236 Which didn't complain. Then I restarted alsa: # /etc/init.d/alsa restart Then set all volumes to eleven: # alsamixer and tried to play a sound: # aplay /usr/share/XXX/XXX.wav which then just hung there in silence. Do I need to configure the driver with the right resource options? Or unload the current sound drivers? Or configure the soundcard using isapnp? Yes, I did then give up and stick a pci soundcard in an Ensoniq ES1371. I disabled the on board soundcard in BIOS tried modprobe/restart/alsamixer/aplay again - still no sound. Someone had _exactly_ the same problems as me: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=48090 but infuriatingly didn't post a solution, just: " I got it to work! It was the problem with the two sound cards. After fiddling about a bit with the isa setting I finally have sound. Thanks all! " I found: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Cirrus+Logic&card=.&chip=CS4232%2C+CS4232A&module=cs4236 which suggested using the following for debian: # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4236 # module options should go here # 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 but I'm not sure that applies to Hoary and what do I put as module options? Should I use sndconfig or alsaconf or not? Knoppix also has in dmesg: ad1848: ISAPnP reports 'WSS/SB' at i/o 0x534, irq 5, dma 1, 3 so maybe I could try the configs above with: options snd-cs4236 dma1=1 dma2=3 io=0x0534 irq=5 or does that only work because isapnp configured the soundcard? Sorry for the long email, clearly I need to experiment some more. Any clue would be gratefully appreciated! cheers Harry * with hindsight I should have had the foresight to run script(1) or email myself the .bash-history or something. ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
