On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 22:11:52 GMT
Matt Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frans,
>
> Ok, so i have done all the things you suggested, but to be honest i'm not
> to sure what i'm looking for in the 'cat /proc/isapnp'. I'll put it at
> the bottom of this message so if some kind person decided to help me out
> you can see it but everybody else can ignore thee long post!
>
> The '/sbin/lsmod'shows:
<snip>
> ad1848 21408 0
> sound 57292 0 [ad1848]
> soundcore 4068 2 [sound]
<snip>
I don't think you had sound working at that moment...
> The /etc/modules.conf file shows:
>
> alias autofs autofs4
> alias usb-interface usb-uhci
> alias sound-slot-2 ad1848
OK, as root, replace the line above with:
alias sound-slot-0 cs4232
post-install cs4232 modprobe opl3 io=0x388
Remember the opl3 module sndconfig complained about :)
After a reboot sound should work without running sndconfig every time.
If you're interested you can read about your soundcard driver in:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/Documentation/sound/CS4232. It's in the
kernel-source RPM package.
> alias char-major-81 bttv
> alias /dev/ttyHCF* hcfserial
> alias char-major-240 hcfserial
> alias /dev/ttyCUA* hcfserial
> alias char-major-241 hcfserial
> alias /dev/modem hcfserial
> options hcfserial serialmajor=240 calloutmajor=241 pcivendorid=0x14F1
> pcideviceid=0x1035
Uhm, I wish you the best of luck with your winmodem ;) An external modem
would avoid a lot of problems for you.
> Ok, so sorry this is so long, but if anyone can help this newbie, i'll be
> very greatful and can move further away from uncle bill!!
You provided very useful information! About MIDI, if you have the relevant
packages installed, in KDE you have K -> multimedia -> sound ->
midi synthesizer. You can play the file /usr/share/sndconfig/sample.midi,
that's the one sndconfig didn't let you hear ;)
There is also K -> multimedia -> sound -> midi and karaoke player. To use it
click settings -> midi setup and choose Yamaha opl3 - FM to use the FM
synthesizer to play midi (or choose the external MIDI port if you have an
exteral synthesizer). I think the quality is much less than the first program
which uses sofware for sound synthesis and not the onboard hardware FM
synthesizer.
> Cheers again
> Matt
>
>
> "cat /proc/isapnp"
>
> Card 1 'CSC4236:Crystal Codec' PnP version 1.0 Product version 0.5
The line above tells me what soundcard you have.
> Logical device 0 'CSC0000:WSS/SB'
> Device is not active
That's why I think you hadn't (re)run sndconfig and had no working sound.
> Active port 0x534,0x388,0x220
> Active IRQ 7 [0x2]
> Active DMA 1,3
Ports, IRQ, DMA ...
<snip>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> On 13/04/02, 16:12:24, Frans Ketelaars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> regarding Re: [newbie] Sound card problems:
>
>
> > On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:24:38 GMT
> > Matt Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi, I've just installed 8.2 but am generally new to Linux having only
> > > used Redmond Linux before. During setup my soundcard wasn't configured
> > > properly and the setup told me to run sndconfig later on. So i did that
> > > and the ISAPNP Probe Results found my sound card:
> > >
> > > Model: Crystal Codec:GAME
> > >
> > > The first sound card test was ok and i heard the sample sound fine. But
> > > when it did the second sound card test for the MIDI sample it returned:
> > >
> > > modprobe error
> > > The following error occurred running the modprobe program:
> > > /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3.o.gz:
> > > init_module: No such device
>
> > Well, the opl3 device was not found by the opl3 module ;)
>
> > > modprobe: insmod
> > > /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3.o.gz failed
> > > modprobe: insmod synth0 failed
>
> > Yes, it's about a FM synthesizer for MIDI. But Timidity (on your CD's)
> > can play MIDI just fine (in fact the sound quality of the opl3 based MIDI
> > synthesizer is rather bad AFAIK).
>
> > > It offered me the chance to do all the setting manually, but i don't know
> > > what they are. So my questions are: what does the above error mean and if
> > > i have to set it up manually then how do i find all the settings for it?
>
> > 'cat /proc/isapnp' _may_ give you some ideas. It's possible sndconfig
> made
> > a mistake and shouldn't have tried to load the opl3 module....
>
> > > Also, the strange thing is that for the rest of the session after i have
> > > run this, the sound card works fine, so i know it works ok, but then i
> > > have to run sndconfig again next time i log in, which is quite often at
> > > the moment as my modem is not supported yet, but thats another story!!
>
> > You can check with '/sbin/lsmod' which modules (drivers) are loaded. Let
> us
> > know. I think sndconfig loaded a driver for your card, then tried to load
> the
> > opl3 module which failed. Because of that sndconfig didn't add the
> necessary
> > lines to the /etc/modules.conf file.
>
> > > Cheers in advance and thanks to all the mandrake people for a cool distro
> > >
> > > Matt
>
> > HTH,
>
> > -Frans
>
>
--
-Frans
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