Re: alsa sound on vaio (neomagic 256qv) chipset / ymfpci
i found what was the problem i wasnt in the audio group ...
but what is strange is that in xmms i cant change the volume of an mp3 ?
is this normal, or is there any way to change the volume by another tool ?
thanks
bruno
----- Original Message -----
From: "Noah Meyerhans" <noahm@lcs.mit.edu>
To: "Bruno Waes" <bruno.waes@oxygenetic.com>
Cc: <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: alsa sound on vaio (neomagic 256qv) chipset / ymfpci
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> I think you're on the right track here. I ran in to the exact same
> problem with ALSA on my PCG-XG28 (or whatever it is) with the same audio
> hardware.
>
> It turned out that I had everything set up just fine in Linux and that I
> needed to change a BIOS setting. You need to tell it that there is
> *not* a PnP OS installed, which will cause the BIOS to initialize all
> the PCI stuff.
>
> Enter the BIOS by pressing <F2> at boot time (when the Vaio logo is
> displayed).
>
> HTH,
> noah
>
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 09:39:09PM +0200, Bruno Waes wrote:
> > I have put debian 2.2 on my sony vaio F180, this laptop uses a Neomagic
> > 256AV chipset, this is an integrated sound and graphic adapter.
> >
> > I had no problem configuring the graphics adapter as now x and
helixgnome is
> > running smoothly.
> >
> > but i have some problems with the sound, i installed from source the
alsa
> > 0.58b drivers, because i read on several sites that the Yamaha ymfpci
driver
> > works with this card.
> >
> > in my kernel (2.2.17) i have soundsupport selected but no sound card
> > selected as was in the howto of alsa ...
> >
> > but when i try to load the drive with modprobe snd-card-ymfpci
> >
> > then i get some errors
> >
> > /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/snd-card-ymfpci.o: init_module: Device or
resource
> > busy
> > Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
> > invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> > ...
> > insmod failed ...
> >
> >
> > so i get when i do a 'cat /proc/asound/cards'
> > --- no soundcards ---
> >
> > but that has to be, as i found on a website with someone with another
vaio
> > with the same chipset ...
> > 0 [card1 ]: YMFPCI - Yamaha DS-XG PCI (YMF744)
> > Yamaha DS-XG PCI (YMF744) at 0xfecf0000, irq 9
> >
> > now what do i do ? do i need to set the IO and IRQ ? as in the hint, but
how
> > do i do that ? this is a pci device ... so pnp has nothing to do with it
i
> > think ?
> >
> > thanks in advance
> >
> > bruno
> >
> >
> >
> >
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