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Old 05-25-2004, 10:11 AM   #1
dl5rcw
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Dell Latitude CPi and SuSE 9.1


Hope i am right here.
Got a Dell Lattude CPi here.
CPU somewhat > 330MHz, 125MB Ram, about 5GB HDD.
Installed SuSE 9.1 cauz of better wlan support.
Problem with my soundcard. Started Yast2 in init 1 mode since X-crashed frequently when i tried to configure my soundcard. Still no response. Yast tells me that i got a NM220 [MagicMedia 256AV Audio].

I need help to get my Laptop "singing" again.
Just worked fine with Knoppix and RedHat9.0, but still would like to stick to SuSE cauz i grew up with it and i just feel so much more comfortable with a bit more fancy graphic-setup like YaST.

I would appreciate if anyone could help me.. I wouldn`t be afraid of command-line options, too... as long as it is well explained.

thanks!
Lars

PS: Got anyone running USB-Stick's under SuSE 9.1? It is properly detected - can open it via Root on the command line - but not as a default user... i expect some restriction problem with the auto detect....
 
Old 05-25-2004, 01:52 PM   #2
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The soundcard in the Latitude CPi is a CS4237B. I used a 300MHz model for years and Alsa support for this card has really come a long way.

Even if the wizards don't automatically correctly detect and configure your soundcard you should be able to get it going without too much fuzz. The driver to use is the Alsa snd-cs4236 driver.

I haven't used SuSE a lot so I am not sure on how the modules are configured and loaded, but on most distributions you can just edit /etc/modules.conf. What you want to add is something like this:
Code:
alias char-major-116
alias char-major-14 soundcore

alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4236
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
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-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss

options snd cards_limit=1

options snd-cs4236 index=0 id=card_zero port=0x530 cport=0x210 \
irq=5 dma1=0 dma2=1 mpu_port=0x330 isapnp=0 fm_port=0x388 mpu_irq=9
Then try loading the driver: modprobe snd-cs4236
If no errors are reported you should be able to unmute the card using your favourite mixer software (alsamixer in a console works for me).


Håkan
 
  


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