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Re: getting sound to stick in Etch...



On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 14:28:27 +0000, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> I am having a problem getting audio functionality to stick in a 
> newly installed Etch system on a Dell precision 410 MT.
> 
> There was no sound device immediately after install, so I ran
> alsaconf, selected:
> 	legacy Probe legacy ISA (non-PnP) chips
> told it to probe "cs4236   Cirrus Logic CS4235-9" then answered Y to
> 	Do you want to modify /etc/modprobe.d/sound
> And I get
> 	 OK, sound driver is configured.
>  	 ALSA CONFIGURATOR  will prepare the card for playing now.
> 	 Now I will load the ALSA sound driver and use
> 	 amixer to raise the default volumes.
> 
> This results in /etc/modprobe.d/sound containing:
>  alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4236
>  options snd-cs4236 index=0 port=0x530 cport=0x538 isapnp=0 dma1=1 dma2=0 irq=5

[...]

> Two problems...
> 1. after rebooting it is all gone and I have no sound again :(
>    I assume the modprobe.d/sound file should be causing sound to be configured
>    at boot time, but it appears not to be..
>    Any ideas what is going wrong or what I still need to do?
>
> 2. No /dev/dsp, so attempting to run esd for gnome fails...
>    Could it be anything to do with the /etc/modprobe.d entry:
>    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    41 2007-10-27 21:42 linux-sound-base_noOSS -> /lib/linux-sound-base/noOSS.modprobe.conf

Adding the following two lines to /etc/modules might help:

snd_cs4236
snd_pcm_oss

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