Re: getting sound to stick in Etch...
That did it - Thanks!!
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:59:25PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> 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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> Florian |
>
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