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 -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
