Panasonic CF-25 Runs awesome no sound! Any Ideas?

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Panasonic CF-25 Runs awesome no sound! Any Ideas?
started by: windancer

Posted by windancer on Dec. 10 2005,09:58

I installed Beatrix on my Panasonic CF-25 Ran real slow. So I came over and got me DSL 2.0 Runs awesome! But I have no sound. Anyone got sound on the CF-25? Or maybe a how to get sound working?

Panasonic CF-25
P166
96 megs ram
Linksys wpc11 v2 wireless card worked outa the box!
1 meg magicraph neomagic 2093( I have the config-4 if anyone needs)
sound unknown not working bios has option for SB compatable. I believe windows sets up as a opl sax

Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 10 2005,20:55

Supposedly, the CF-25 has an ESS1788 chipset, so maybe this will work:

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....ss1788% >

Posted by AwPhuch on Dec. 11 2005,02:43

WAAAAAH I want one of those toughbooks...those things are freeking bulletproof!

< http://www.jeffborders.com/techdocs/panasonic/cf25.html >
< http://www.memoryx.net/cfba6164.html > <--memory

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by windancer on Dec. 18 2005,09:19

Quote (cbagger01 @ Dec. 10 2005,15:55)

Supposedly, the CF-25 has an ESS1788 chipset, so maybe this will work:

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....ss1788% >

woh! Tried that got the new sound controls on my desktop with no errors from the terminal. but then loaded up XMMS and bam! Nothin but trouble........ Locked up the laptop

when I rebooted had to totally redo X which is ok. looked back in the modprobe lines I entered they were ok. tried it again and locked up again. when I rebooted my desktop icons were jacked up. so here I am now with a nice OS just no sound. Probably should just leave it that way I guess. I have not been succesful at getting sound on this laptop with any distro of linux yet

Posted by windancer on Dec. 18 2005,09:21

Quote (AwPhuch @ Dec. 10 2005,21:43)

WAAAAAH I want one of those toughbooks...those things are freeking bulletproof!

< http://www.jeffborders.com/techdocs/panasonic/cf25.html >
< http://www.memoryx.net/cfba6164.html > <--memory

Brian
AwPhuch

heh thats the one alright. But let me correct you can hit this thing with a sledge hammer and would still work LOL

Posted by AwPhuch on Dec. 19 2005,20:23

Yes..it has a magnesium alloy case...the keyboard is waterproof!, and it has a built in carry handle!

Our CF-25 they used where I work to test telephone ckts...could drop from a telephone pole and not break it!

You could litteraly smack someone upside the head with it and not damage this laptop!

The old ones were built for strength not speed...the newer ones < Panasonic Toughbooks > are tough as nails, and pretty dang fast!!!!

Keep looking around...im sure all you have to do is tell it to manually activate the sound module and what io and irq to use (I had to do this with my Compaq LTE 5300)

Posted by dekkon on Dec. 19 2005,23:16

Im having the same problem with my CF-71. From what Ive found, it has a different chip (yahama-something). Anyone have an idea?

Posted by AwPhuch on Dec. 20 2005,07:07

Quote (dekkon @ Dec. 19 2005,18:16)

Im having the same problem with my CF-71. From what Ive found, it has a different chip (yahama-something). Anyone have an idea?

http://newton.bme.columbia.edu/~lparra/CF-71.html

Quote

The Sound Setup

The Yamaha YMF744 runs with OSS/Lite and standard SoundblasterPro settings. I have not tried ALSA which should support this chipset directly.

You can look up the actual compatibility settings for memory addresses and interrupts for your machine in the BIOS.

Update: The 256AV is a combined Video/Sound chip. Linux Kernels since 2.2.14 contain a native sound driver for it. See Documentation/sound/NM256.txt for details how to install it, and to learn about the strange use of video memory of this chipset.
Having learned this recently, i'm in doubt, that the sound chip is really a YMF744. Maybe the 256AV is doing it all alone. Unfortunately i can't test this, because i do not own the CF-71 any more. If anybody can confirm the YMF744 or the NM256, please drop me a mail.

Actually Marcelino Mata did:

...the Panasonic CF-71 has a YMF-715E sound chip. I read this information off the chip located under the hard drive.
I have not had much luck with Alsa yet but it works fine with OSS with NeoMagic 256AV,YMF 715 and OPL3-SAx (YMF719). With the Neomagic driver, OSS selects the OPL3-SAx driver. It got it working with a 2.6 based distro at this point.

< http://www.blackbeauty.de/members/ergo.html >

Hope thats a start bud

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by Chuckakan on Dec. 21 2005,14:34

Hi Windancer

I'm working on the same problem. I'm no guru, but I had a spark of hope last night. I booted DSL 2.0 in DSL alsa mode,logged in as user DSL and loaded gnu_utils.dsl and the dsl_dpkg.dsl. Then ran Alsa setup from the menu.( I down loaded the alsa.dsl from the test section.) The setup program detected the sound card as a legacy isa card and used the sb8 driver. I guess I should mention that I have these BIOS settings( io=220, wss=530, irq=5, dma=1). After the setup program finished it's thing I ran XMMS and it worked, till I rebooted. So that's where I'm at. I ran out of time to try anything further. I'll try again tonight.

Posted by AwPhuch on Dec. 21 2005,17:58

Quote (Chuckakan @ Dec. 21 2005,09:34)

add this to your /opt/bootlocal.sh

# Activate Soundcard
modprobe sb io=220 wss=530 irq=5 dma=1

You can edit this to the settings of your system

Was that sb8 or what?!?!

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by Chuckakan on Dec. 22 2005,14:44

The driver is one of the ones Alsa Setup tries to setup from the "Legacy ISA" menu.. If you do a "lsmod" it shows up as "snd-sb8".

Posted by Dominica for Sunday on Jan. 01 2006,10:46

Well I have just booted up via USB pen for the first time on my CF-27 Toughbook just to check out if the sound worked, which it did... Would you by chance know what sound card is detected during the start up if at all?

I know when I first had sound problems on kernel 2.4.29 with a slackware derivative I just had to make sure that I had ALSA correctly installed and configured. I remember seeing ALSA something in the MyDSL section which would be my first recommendation if you havn't figured the problem out by now...

To all others who want a Toughbook, I would recommend them 100%! They are awesome, talk about tough! Plus mine includes a touchscreen which of course makes it that much cooler! This thing is solid, built mostly out of a magnesium alloy, it is also almost totally water proof and the hard drive is mounted inside a half centimeter of gel so it keeps on ticking even if you drop it from a meter up! Plus I hear a toughbook stopped a bullet for some guy in Iraq, so if I ever get shot at again I now have a little more protection...

Posted by windancer on Jan. 11 2006,08:31

Quote (Dominica for Sunday @ Jan. 01 2006,05:46)

Nah ive been working on it for a while I still get lockups. It doesnt find my sound on boot gets errors. Now if I install Knoppix which runs really slow on this laptop sound works outa the box. DSL is just so fast on this its really the linux of choice for this laptop.

Posted by John Grove on Feb. 02 2006,04:45

I have a toughbook CF-25 -- nothins on it but command.com. I'm not a good computer person but I want to try and get the DSL on it. I have tried lots of stuff but nothing is working. Can someone give me some pointers for getting DSl on this thing?

Posted by windancer on Feb. 02 2006,06:17

Quote (John Grove @ Feb. 01 2006,23:45)

John I just sent you an email. I can help you get it working. I am windancerxb on aim if you would rather chat in real time. Also how much ram does your cf-25 have? mine is maxed at 96 megs. I have also done the bios update so I can boot to a cd which really helps alot. Anyway contact me we will see if we can get it working. I also would highly recommend that you pick of a linksys wpc11 on ebay for about 10 bucks for wireless internet as it works perfect on dsl. of course if you dont have wireless access then a card plugged would be fine too