>Haven't looked into this deeply yet, but thought I'd ask. I seem
to be
>having problems getting sound to work on my Dell Dimension XPS D233.
>It's a 233 PII system with integrated Yamaha sound(which may be the
OPL
>chipset?). If I try to run sndconfig it seg faults. Anybody
out there
>have this working? If so, is there a trick?
Jason, is the Yamaha the FM Synth? Most of the newer Dells
(including
the Workstation 400 of which we have a few) use Crystal for sound.
The
Crystal drivers in 2.0.33 appear to work (at the default addresses).
I have
not tried soundconf, but I believe it does not include a full
set of sound
drivers (please correct me if I am wrong). BTW, OSS does NOT
properly
support the crystal sound driver (I get noise and poping -- it is listed
as
"unsupported" in OSS's docs). BTW, my addresses are 0x530, I5,
D1, D0.
My suggestion is to boot to Win95 and check the sound address (or check
the original address from your notes if you have them). Then
make a kernel
with the sound enabled at that address. If a machine I get has
Win95, I usually
keep a small partition with it on it so I can check what hardware is
in the box
and at what addresses (no flames please, but since I paid the Bill Tax,
I
might as well use it).
Cheers and good luck,
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