Multimedia :: sound card not detected?

im having trouble with my sound too, its integrated and the laptop is a dell latitude cp, 233mhz cpu 32mb of ram nad a 2 gig hdd, i am not sure what type of chip it is...

Looking at this list, we'll need more from you than
' Dell latitude cp ' if we're to help you with your sound chip.

This list shows about a dozen..
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/dell.html

The M233XT looks like a candidate,
..you might do a google search on that one for starters..

73
ke4nt

According to Dell's specs on CP and CPi models - http://docs.us.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/pmojav/specs.htm you have the Crystal (Cirrus Logic) 4237B. The conventional way of loading its driver is -
modprobe cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 (check your hardware settings, of course)

but several people have reported problems with this sound chip, in which case the various modules need to be loaded in a particular order, as such -

modprobe sound
insmod ad1848
insmod uart401
insmod cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330
insmod opl3 io=0x388

And in some cases these modules may have automatically loaded at bootup ... but with wrong settings, so they need to be unloaded first, with "rmmod xxx"

Quote (ke4nt1 @ July 19 2005,01:59)

ok at boot up before lilo starts it says dell latitude cp m233st, so that is my model i believe and tempest thanks for the help, but no dice

gbuscrizist
kopsis made some good points about BIOS setup here -
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....61;st=0

In general, BIOS should be set to "PnP OS = NO" for all Linux distributions. And ironically, Windows sometimes configures its hardware better with this, too.

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