Need sound

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Need sound
started by: attilathepun

Posted by attilathepun on Oct. 24 2005,22:53

Hey,
I know, there was just a 'need sound' post, but that was a Toshiba... Nothing wrong with that, it just probably has a different sound card. I'm running an IBM 380xd laptop. It's old school, but other than basic specs (233 Mhz P2, 96Mb RAM, 4 Gb hd, 800 x 600 screen) I can't tell you much about it. I installed DSL successfully and am working on adding apps such as AbiWord, but I'd like to play music and the soundcard doesn't work. Do I need to install a driver? Where do I get the driver? (IBM has drivers for Win 95/98, but that's not useful) If I need to install a driver, how would I go about it?

Sorry if I'm being an idiot here, but I'm new to Linux and have only had this particular computer about a week. Any help would be greatly appreciated -- thanks in advance.

Posted by brianw on Oct. 25 2005,01:13

Here is a link to a forum stating that the drivers can be found at esound.com

< http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=376954 >

If the sound card is SB compatible it might work with modprobe sb (if you want to test). I used the sound config tool with DSL to set mine up on my Armada 7800 (has an SB Pro compatible chip).

I read in one spot that it might have a crystal audio chip.

Good luck

Posted by k9wkj on Nov. 01 2005,14:16

this is from a old post of mine edit the file to look like below

here is my /opt/bootlocal.sh

rmmod soundcore
rmmod cs4232
modprobe sound
insmod ad1848
insmod uart401
insmod cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=5

for my old stinkpad 380ED
works bangin good

Posted by attilathepun on Nov. 01 2005,16:43

Sweet, thanks.

Posted by mangatono on Nov. 06 2005,18:33

And what is when cs4232 cant be loaded ?

how can I load it ?

I have Thinkpad 600, soundcard is cristalclear , modul cs62xx is loaded by autodetection .
Using /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o (uart401.o)

by autodetection is found CS 4610/11

I have found this "In your bios, disable "ThinkPad Simple Boot" or "Quick Boot".
There is a thorough discussion of this here - < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....61;st=0 >
Since your Thinkpad is not ACPI-aware (it's PentiumMMX, not PentiumII), you should also be booting DSL with the boot parameter "acpi=off"

Your ISA-based Crystal/Cirrus Logic CS4237 sound chip is not automatically detected by DSL, so once booted, load its OSS sound driver manually, as such -
modprobe cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0

Later, you can automate this by adding these commands to /opt/bootlocal.sh, then do a backup.

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I have alredy installed ALsa, but I can´t configure it.