Re: Sound on Dell Latitude LS
Quoting Gustaf Erikson on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 01:43:56PM +0200:
> I've "borrowed" a Dell Latitude LS from work to play with. Everything
> works fine except sound. The sound chip is a NeoMagic 256AV. The
> module in the 2.2.19 kernel locks the machine hard when
> loaded. According to the Net, this is a well-known problem.
>
> My question is: has anyone solved this? Perhaps in the 2.4 kernel?
>
> Non-free OSS works great, but I don't feel like paying for sound on a
> machine that may be taken back any day...
>
> tia.
>
> /g.
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I own and use a Latitude ls. Great little machine. I could never get
sound to work except for using the commercial OSS drivers. I did not
try ALSA and using the kernel drivers I experienced the same issue.
Since the sound card shares resources with the video card at some level,
I experienced random lockups even using the OSS drivers. Most of the
time, sound was fine though.
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