On Friday 05 Mar 2004 16:26, David B. Carter wrote: > David B. Carter said: > > OK. I installed alsa-utils (and it dependency - pciutils) from the FTP > > address you gave above. It installed fine. When I ran alsaconf, it said > > that no PnP sound cards were detected and asked me if I wanted it to > > probe for ISA cards. I said "OK" and picked the CS4236 drivers so it > > would not probe for everything on the planet. Then it asked me if I > > wanted it to test all DMA and IRQ combinations. I said "OK" and it > > started to probe. It immediately locked up the mouse, and the Caps Lock > > and Scroll Lock lights on the keyboard started blinking, and it hasn't > > shown any signs of responsding for about 20 minutes now. > > > > OK, I went back and rebooted the system and repeated the same procedure > > but told it not to try all possible DMA/IRQ combinations. Same result. :( > > > > Any ideas? > > At the urging of someone else who's not on this list, I tried a > > modprobe snd-cs-4236 > > I'm not even 100% sure what that does, but, after unmuting several of the > main channels (master, pcm, cd, etc.) in alsamixer, I now get CD audio!! > Still no audio from digital audio files in XMMS (even after switching to > the ALSA output plugin). > > Any ideas how to proceed? Thanks.
The modprobe snd-cs-4236 loads the driver. But it will not load on the next boot unless you configure /etc/modules.conf. That is what alsaconf is supposed to do for you, but for some reason alsaconf is unable to detect your soundchip. If you go to http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Cirrus+Logic&card=CS4236&chip=CS4236&module=cs4236#modp You will see an example modules.conf configuration for your driver. You could try copying this into your /etc/modules.conf derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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