FC2T3 audio problems with Inspiron 3200

Jim Ramsey jwramsey at pobox.com
Mon May 17 14:22:08 UTC 2004


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I normally run RH8 on my laptop, but I have a spare HD
for it and decided to try run Fedora.

This version has worked well, except for audio which has
been a continuing headache for me under Linux.

The sound chip is the CS4237b

Note that not BIOS changes have been made between these
settings.

The sound works under Win98.   Relevent Device Manager
output shows"
  Class: Sound, video and game controllers
  Device: Crystal PnP Audio System Control Registers
  Resources:
      I/O: 0F00h-0F07h
  Device: Crystal PnP audio system CODEC
      IRQ: 05
      I/O: 0530h-0537h
      I/O: 0388h-038Bh
      I/O: 0220h-022Fh
      DMA: 00
      DMA:01

Sound works on RH8, but I had to buy the non-free OSS sound driver
to get it to work.

the devices.cfg file:
  -gen4237 #Generic Crystal CS4237 based soundcard or motherboard (non PnP)
  CS4232MPU ON P330 I9
  CS423X ON P530 I5 D0 d1
  OPL3 ON P388


I copied some of the work getting sound to work that appears in this list
and customized it to fit.

the /etc/modprobe.conf file:

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116*	snd
alias snd-card-0	snd-cs4236
options snd-cs4236	cport=0xf00 port=0x530 irq=5 fm_port=0x388 dma1=0 dma2=1 
sb_port=0x220 mpu_port=0x330 mpu_irq=9

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14* soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

install snd-card-0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-card-0 && { 
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
remove snd-card-0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }; 
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove

install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install sound-slot-0 && { 
/bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
remove sound-slot-0 { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >>/dev/null 2>&1 
|| :; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove


This is what happens:

modprobe snd-card-0
FATAL: Error inserting snd_cs4236 
(/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.ko): No such 
device

lsmod returns:
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_opl3_lib            7424  0 
snd_hwdep               6276  1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_cs4236_lib         12928  0 
snd_mpu401_uart         4864  0 
snd_rawmidi            17184  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          6152  2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd_cs4231_lib         18948  1 snd_cs4236_lib
snd_pcm                68872  2 snd_cs4236_lib,snd_cs4231_lib
snd_timer              17156  3 snd_opl3_lib,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm
snd                    38372  9 
snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_cs4236_lib,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               6112  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7940  2 snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm
parport_pc             19392  1 
lp                      8236  0 
parport                29640  2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4                10624  0 
ds                     12292  4 
yenta_socket           15104  1 
pcmcia_core            46792  2 ds,yenta_socket
sunrpc                101064  1 
8139too                17792  0 
mii                     3584  1 8139too
floppy                 47440  0 
sg                     27552  0 
scsi_mod               91344  1 sg
microcode               4768  0 
dm_mod                 33184  0 
uhci_hcd               23708  0 
ipv6                  184288  8 
ext3                  102376  2 
jbd                    40216  1 ext3


The same message shows up if I just boot up to telinit level 3 or 5.

Any ideas?


- -- 
Regards,

Jim Ramsey
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