By coincidence I just got mine going too on my pavilion. But I traced the problem to a completly different place. I entered the wrong IRQ. As far as I can tell the weird card doesn't have a normal irq. Windows uses 5 and everything works but linux needs 7. I put windows on 7 and no sound. Of course I have yet to hear any actual sound because the leads that connect my pc to my sterio are put in the loft while I decorate. But Sndconfig doesn't give an error anymore. Mark Weaver wrote: > > Great to "hear" Rick! Glad you could get it going. > > -- > Mark > > / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat > * in order to get the rats up from below decks > * so they can be kicked over the side and drowned! > * > * REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496 > */ > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<*REPLY SEPERATOR*>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 rick had this to say! > > > Special thanks to Mark Weaver and sSpoonman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])! > > > > Some history first. I have never gotten the sound to work on my son's HP > > Pavilion 3265. Both the installation procecure and sounddrake failed to > > detect the on-board audio. A few months ago I put my son's original Win98 HD > > back in ran the control panel system applet. Scribbled a few notes about the > > sound "card" and yanked it back out. Never did much after that - just got busy > > and then lost the paper with the info. > > > > Mark and I had a brief e-mail exchange relative to the "gates gets Linux" > > thread and sound on the Pavilion came up. He felt it might have been an > > interrupt conflict. I figured I would check it out, maybe after Christmas. > > > > But after coming home tonight and checking my mail there was entry in > > [newbie] from Spoonman with subject = "RE: [newbie] Crystal 4235." Bingo! The > > nickel dropped as I was pretty sure that had been the name of the sound chip in > > the Pavilion. > > > > So *made* the time to tear the system apart and put the WIn98 HD back in. Sure > > enough the sound system was "Crystal PnP Audio". Hmmmm not "4235" or some > > other number. But I took a flashlight and magnifying glass and checked out the > > chips. One was labeled "Cyrstal CX4237-X03". Close enough for me. > > > > This time I took down *all* the information in the WIn98 Control System applet > > through. Then yanked the WIn98 drive and put back the Mandrake 7.1 HD. > > > > Logged on as root and ran soundrake. It couldn't see anything bit I hit the OK > > button and it came up and gave me a list. Under Crystal there was 4232 and > > 4236. Hmmm, what the heck, 4236 is close enough to 4237. Selected that and > > got a dialog box. made changes to the DMA channel. > > > > Hit the test button - nada. Doh!! No speakers. Yanked an old pair of LabTec > > MCS-600s from the junk box and plugged them in. Hit the test button again - > > this time something muffled that sounded like speech. Cranked up the volume > > and tried again - it *was* speech albeit pretty muffled. > > > > Said "close enough" and hit the OK button. Put in a CD and am listening to the > > Bach Brandenbergs on a Synthesizer! Ahhh... life is good. > > > > This has been a long post but maybe it will help someone else since my > > technique certainly wasn't "deep." > > > > Cheers and thanks again Mark and Spoonman! > > -rick > > > > -- ============================================== Goldenpi- programer, unreal level creator, linux user and all round geek. If you are reading this, I sent this mail from linux.
