Hi,

I have Dell Optiplex GXa, Crystal Semiconductor CS4236 chip on board.

During Suse 9.0 pro installation YAST2 detects sound card Crystal CS4236
just fine, but on configuring stage the sound system yields an audible
crackling sound when the module gets loaded and then the system
hangs. I tried couple of times, but result is just the same, never
succeeded to even finish installation, system freezes completly. This
machine ran Suse 8.2 pro before and worked just fine.

This is what I extracted from modules.conf in resque mode:
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# YaST2: sound system dependent part
#
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-slot-1 off
alias sound-service-1-0 off
alias sound-slot-2 off
alias sound-service-2-0 off
alias sound-slot-3 off
alias sound-service-3-0 off
options snd snd_cards_limit=1 snd_major=116
# QQNm.ipedxK4WYo9:Crystal Semiconductor
alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4236
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-11 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
***********************************************************

and this is from lspci:

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00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:7180 (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0

00:01.0 Class 0604: 8086:7181 (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: fc000000-feffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f5000000-f5ffffff

00:07.0 Class 0601: 8086:7110 (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:07.1 Class 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]

00:07.2 Class 0c03: 8086:7112 (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at dce0 [size=32]

00:07.3 Class 0680: 8086:7113 (rev 01)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9

00:0d.0 Class 0400: 109e:036e (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
Memory at f6081000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:0d.1 Class 0480: 109e:0878 (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
Memory at f6080000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:0e.0 Class 0300: 10de:0171 (rev a3)
Flags: VGA palette snoop, 66Mhz, medium devsel, IRQ 9
Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at 80000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

00:0f.0 Class 0604: 1011:0024 (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32

00:11.0 Class 0200: 10b7:9050
Subsystem: 1028:006f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at dc80 [size=64]
Expansion ROM at fb000000 [disabled] [size=64K]

01:00.0 Class 0300: 1002:4744 (rev 5c)
Subsystem: 1028:406f
Flags: stepping, medium devsel
Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=16M]
I/O ports at ec00 [disabled] [size=256]
Memory at fcfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0
**********************************************************

Any ideas what can be done?


Thanks.

number of replies indicates that there is not much to do...

The problem partially solved. I switched off on board sound in BIOS and performed the installation, no sound of course. Downloaded last stable version from ALSA - 1.3.0, then switched sound on and installed it according to ALSA howto. No errors. Sound card loaded, I can listen to audio CD's just fine, but that's all : no MP3, no test/system sounds. It seems that I'm going to give up.

By the way, Suse claims that it is hardware problem (they can't help) , in other words the problem is MINE
No.., it doesn't remind me Microsoft treatment and I'm going to advise Suse to all my friends. (I'm cynical)

YOu going to give us the ALSA howto?

My suse box hangs randomly. When I play around with the sound drivers. I seem to get unlucky on some boots and all hangs after a minute or so after boot'

You can find it at:

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/

choose your card manufacturer, and you will get supported models list. Pick up your card model - you'll see howto for your specific model. The problem is - once you compiled sources and installed, you can't perform tuning on your card through YAST2. It's listed in sound devices, but you don't have 'edit' option and as I said sound is just partial