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