Old Crystal Sound with FC2?

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Mon Aug 30 20:30:08 UTC 2004



On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 12:36, Satish Balay wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> > 
> > > >     In the month since this thread was last active, there have been a 
> > > > couple of threads related to CS43xx sound chips.  After having tryed all 
> > > > the suggestions, the closest I got to sound was a message that module 
> > > > CS4232.ko could not be loaded.  I haven't been moved to try building a 
> > > > custom kernel yet, but I'm confident that if I did, I'd find that 
> > > > support for CS4232 sound had not been generated in the default kernels.
> > > >     Cheers,
> > > > Gordon
> > > 
> > > Have you tried modprobing the cs46xx module?  That module probes for me,
> > > but I still cannot get any sound out of my 600E.
> > 
> > FWIW I have sound working fine on my 600E for a very long
> > time. Curently I have Rawhide running - and it still works..
> > 
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-June/msg00184.html
> 
> I used those exact lines in my modprobe.conf file, and I get this:
> 
> Aug 30 12:52:03 600E modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting snd_cs4236
> (/lib/modules/2.6.6-1.435.2.3/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.ko): No
> such device
> Aug 30 12:52:03 600E modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for
> sound_slot_0
> Aug 30 12:52:03 600E kernel: CS4236+ soundcard not found or device busy
> 
> Whereas `modprobe snd-cs46xx` will actually insert the module.  I tried
> similar settings for a cs4232, with the same result (No such device).
> 
> Any other ideas?

One sugestion I've seen was swapping values for 'dma1=1
dma2=0'. 

Beyond that - playing with some bios settings with PS2.exe tool might
help - which I've never done (its constantly refered to in
linux-thinkpad mailing lists archives).


Satish





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