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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