Sound no longer works with kernel 2.6.12
I've updated my kernel from an old 2.4.20 kernel originally installed by
Knoppix 3.2 to the 2.6.12-1-686 debian kernel installed by synaptic (debian
testing) and adjusting lilo.conf by hand. Now my sound no longer works
(/dev/dsp can't be opened). Using modconf on both kernels I see the same
modules switched on: soundcore, sound, uart401, and ad1848. The 2.4 kernel
also uses cs4232. With the 2.6 kernel, I can't switch this on: first there is
a window asking for "Kommandozeilen Argumente", and then, having no idea what
to put in there, an error message saying that the module can't be activated.
I suppose this could be the error, as the sound card is an onboard Crystal
CS4232.
I know a bit about Linux but almost nothing about kernels, having only once
before replaced one (and found this difficult) and never compiled one, so I'm
a kernel newbie. Much of the documentation on kernels is above my head.
Can somebody tell me in simple terms what I might do:
How to install the driver cs4232?
Is it perhaps missing in the new kernel?
Find a newer kernel which does have this?
By the way, the reason I updated kernels at all was that the old one could not
mount USB devices with pmount.
Theo Schmidt
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