CS4236 Sound on Red Hat 8.0?

ziesemer · 11-26-2002, 01:39 AM

I have absolutely no clue what I'm doing on Linux. Mastered windows and trying to become familiar, and hopefully, eventually make the conversion.

I completed an install of Red Hat 8.0 on a Dell OptiPlex GX1. Everything went well, all my devices working so far except for my sound card. It is a CS4236, but it yells at me for device /dev/dsp can't be opened (no such device), and that it's using the null output device.

I have no clue where to start. Dell has drivers for Red Hat 7 on their web site, but I'm guessing they won't work with 8. If so, how to install?

If anyone's bored and willing, some step-by-step instructions for a trial would be greatly appreciated! I'm running the KDE interface, and haven't installed anything else other than what installed with the OS.

Let me know if you need any other information. Tell me how to let you into my system, and I'll let you do that, too. :-) (Nothing to loose...)

THANKS!!!

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Mark Ziesemer

jfcayron · 12-15-2002, 02:17 AM

Can anyone help? Anyone at all?

I am brand new to linux and do not even know where to start looking.

Thanks

Aussie · 12-15-2002, 11:52 AM

Mark,
Do the following (as root)
1) Check to see if the cs4232 module is loaded with "lsmod"
2) If the module is not loaded, load it with "modprobe cs4232 io=* irq=* dma=* dma2=*" (*see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/CS4232 for an explanation)
3) Do "chmod 666 /dev/audio* /dev/dsp* /dev/midi* /dev/mixer* /dev/sequencer*" (* the * is here as a wildcard because there may be multiple devices).

Aussie · 12-15-2002, 11:53 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by jfcayron
Can anyone help? Anyone at all?

I am brand new to linux and do not even know where to start looking.

Thanks

Can't help you if you don't tell us about your hardware....

jfcayron · 12-15-2002, 07:57 PM

Well, as I said, "exact same problem".

So, it's an Optiplex GX1 with built-in CS4236.

I will try your suggestions, thanks.

Jeff

Aussie · 12-15-2002, 08:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jfcayron
Well, as I said, "exact same problem".
So, it's an Optiplex GX1 with built-in CS4236.

I will try your suggestions, thanks.

Jeff

Wel....you said "same problem", leaving us to guess if you have the same hardware or just were unable to get sound with whatever hardware you did have.

jfcayron · 12-16-2002, 11:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Aussie
Do the following (as root)
1) Check to see if the cs4232 module is loaded with "lsmod"
2) If the module is not loaded, load it with "modprobe cs4232 io=* irq=* dma=* dma2=*" ...

It worked great, thanks.

You saved my life!

Aussie · 12-17-2002, 12:36 AM

Your welcome

foetus66 · 03-22-2003, 04:42 PM

I am having the same problem with the same system.
I was delighted to find this post describing my exact issue, but alas I have tried following the directions and they are kind of vague to me.

i found that the module was not loaded so i typed:

modprobe cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
(for the most part i picked those numbers randomly because i didn't know where to begin deciding.)

as for the chmod command, i typed it just as it is above with *'s and everything. again, i have no idea what to make of it.
it didn't give me error messages either time -- but i still have the same error, and the "detect sound card" thingy says no soundcard detected.

i am at a loss.

Any ideas where i can start?

thanks
Carl

Aussie · 03-22-2003, 07:00 PM

You need to type the io, irq, etc, that your card in your computer is using.
The command "ldpci -vv" will tell you what they are.

foetus66 · 03-23-2003, 05:06 PM

'ldpci' command not found

Aussie · 03-23-2003, 06:59 PM

Sorry, thats a typo, the correct command is "lspci".

foetus66 · 03-24-2003, 07:54 AM

I am probably just really dense but I'm still not getting it. I figured if i stared at this long enough something would jump out and grab me, but unfortunately that wasn't the case.

Here's what I get when I do the lspci -vv command as root:

[root@goo /]# lspci -vv

What might I be missing?

Thanks again for your help,
Carl

Aussie · 03-24-2003, 08:25 AM

Try doing "modprobe cs4232" followed by "dmesg | less" and look for a message about the sound card, with the "lspci -vv" you should get something like this,

Code:

00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 8064
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32 (500ns min, 5000ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
        Region 0: I/O ports at dc00 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

foetus66 · 03-24-2003, 10:59 AM

hm, ok i did that...

about half way through the results i have these three lines:

isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: Card 'CS4236B'
isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total

Then the last four lines of the results are as follows:

ad1848/cs4248 Codec Driver Copyright (c) by Hannu Savolainen
ad1848: WSS/SB detected
ad1848: ISAPnP reports WSS/SB at I/O 0x534, irq 5, dma 1, 3
cs4232: set synthio and synthirq to use the wavefront facilities.

I'm not sure if that third line there represents the actual settings of the card, or if it's just the info I put in at the beginning.

Carl