All is not well. My sound works now but is very quiet. I have all the
mixesettings at 100. Any ideas?
----- Original Message -----
From: goldenpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] At last my Pavilion sound is working!
> 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.
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