Folks,
I have finally taken the plunge.
The specs: Dell Precision WS410, 2x500Mhz PIII, ACPI, TNT2, Crystal CS4236B integrated PnP sound, Redhat Linux 7.2, Workstation installation (Win2k dual install), KDE.
Everything has gone well except I can't get sound to work. Here is the situation:
1. sndconfig isn't successful. I hear no playback. None of the manual settings work.
2. the installation and bootup sequence recognises the PnP card and adds the following to /etc/modules.conf:
alias sound-slot-0 cs4232
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
options sound dmabuf=1
alias synth0 opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options cs4232 isapnp=1
3. the default installation did not install isapnptools on the box, so I went ahead and installed the rpm. Using pnpdump -c output, isapnp now generates:
Board 1 has Identity b6 ff ff ff ff 35 68 63 0e: CSC6835 Serial No -1 [checksum b6]
CSC6835/-1[0]{WSS/SB }: Ports 0x538 0x390 0x220; IRQ7 DMA0 --- Enabled OK
4. artd and the various mixer etc. tools appear to recognise the CS4232 as the available sound device.
5. All apparently set, restart and YET, no sound. Its almost as if the the volume is turned down, since none of the tools are complaining about misconfiguration or somesuch. (and yes, I have verified all hardware and software volume controls).
6. It might be worth mentioning that the default workstation installation doesn't start up any sound daemons as far as I can tell. Of course there are esd and artd for Gnome and KDE respectively, but there doesn't appear to be anything in the /etc/init.d area that one might corelate to the CS4232 module. Is this normal?
Any ideas? This linux newbie is beside himself with frustration at the moment.
cheers.
I have finally taken the plunge.
The specs: Dell Precision WS410, 2x500Mhz PIII, ACPI, TNT2, Crystal CS4236B integrated PnP sound, Redhat Linux 7.2, Workstation installation (Win2k dual install), KDE.
Everything has gone well except I can't get sound to work. Here is the situation:
1. sndconfig isn't successful. I hear no playback. None of the manual settings work.
2. the installation and bootup sequence recognises the PnP card and adds the following to /etc/modules.conf:
alias sound-slot-0 cs4232
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
options sound dmabuf=1
alias synth0 opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options cs4232 isapnp=1
3. the default installation did not install isapnptools on the box, so I went ahead and installed the rpm. Using pnpdump -c output, isapnp now generates:
Board 1 has Identity b6 ff ff ff ff 35 68 63 0e: CSC6835 Serial No -1 [checksum b6]
CSC6835/-1[0]{WSS/SB }: Ports 0x538 0x390 0x220; IRQ7 DMA0 --- Enabled OK
4. artd and the various mixer etc. tools appear to recognise the CS4232 as the available sound device.
5. All apparently set, restart and YET, no sound. Its almost as if the the volume is turned down, since none of the tools are complaining about misconfiguration or somesuch. (and yes, I have verified all hardware and software volume controls).
6. It might be worth mentioning that the default workstation installation doesn't start up any sound daemons as far as I can tell. Of course there are esd and artd for Gnome and KDE respectively, but there doesn't appear to be anything in the /etc/init.d area that one might corelate to the CS4232 module. Is this normal?
Any ideas? This linux newbie is beside himself with frustration at the moment.
cheers.
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