Re: Latitude LSt Sound
Hi Joel, and thanks for replying,
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Joel Kjellgren wrote:
> I have an Latitude LS with the NM256 soundcard. I really tried hard to get
> the soundcard working with the open-source drivers but no luck, It always
> crashed when the nm256 module was loaded. I got tired of it and bought the
> commercial driver instead, it really works great.
That seems to be in agreement with what I have heard elsewhere.
> I talked to some people who got the sound working on the Latitude LS
> with the open-source drivers and it seems that it stop working if you
> have BIOS revision A04 or higher.
My machine had BIOS revision A03 when I got it. I have tried re-flashing
the BIOS to various other revisons with no effect. Re-flashing to an
_older_ BIOS revision (i.e. A02) can not be done.
So far, all the evidence suggests that I will have to either (a) cough up
for the connercial driver (_not_ a very "Debian" thing to do :-) ) or
(b) put up with no sound [1]. But I would definitely welcome any further
suggestions.
Hugh
[1] Apart from the amusingly cranky pcsp kernel patch, of course.
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