[Sound] Re: HP Omnibook 4150 laptop

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Giacomo G. Brussino (ggb@ilog.com) said: 
> I installed RedHat 7.0 on my HP Omnibook 4150 laptop. The sound card is
> recognized as a NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV, but it doesn't work.

Doesn't work at all, or crashes the machine?

> I removed the sound modules and was able to install the modules for an
> OPL-SA2/3/x sound chip using sndconfig with the following setting:
> 
> I/O Port 0x530
> IRQ 5
> DMA1 1
> DMA2 0
> MPU I/O 0x300 (or 0x330)
> Control I/O 0x380 (or 0x370)
> 
> This got the sound card to work.

That's pretty much correct. I believe the nm256 will ignore
the control port.

> I would prefer to use the same setting of the sound device from Windows
> 2000, but that doesn't look possible in sndconfig. Here is the info:

What functionality are you missing that would make you want to change
the settings?

> Also, if I use a kickstart file to install RedHat 7.0, what entry can I put
> in the ks.cfg file to avoid installing the NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV and
> install the OPL3-SA2/3/x sound chip?

There is no *specific* command to do; kudzu is run in the post-install
config section. You can always sed/grep/awk the modules.conf file to
put whatever settings you want in it.

Bill