Exact Model: Dell Latitude CPi A400XT
BIOS Rev: A09
Under 2.6 series, everything about this laptop works FINE under the 2.6 kernel (and faster to boot!)
except....
yup... you guessed it....
SOUND!
Code:
$ lspci|grep udio
01:00.1 Multimedia audio controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicMedia 256AV Audio] (rev 20)
I cannot, for the life of me, get this sound "card" working under the 2.6-series kernels, using ALSA
or OSS-emulation. I have attempted this on Slackware-current, Debian Sarge, and Fedora Core 1.
Things I have tried (using 2.6.1, 2.6.3, and 2.6.4):
- built ALSA and OSS into kernel
- built ALSA and OSS as modules
- built sound support in, no ALSA or OSS; built ALSA drivers from ALSA's driver page
- built sound support in, no OSS, ALSA only; built ALSA drivers from ALSA's driver page
- more combinations that I can remember
I have now cleanly recompiled both the kernels and ALSA[-drivers,-libs,-utils,-tools,-oss] close to 13 or 14 times, with different combinations. I have tried every single recommendation i have found on the net for this chipset for the module loading parameters, including
hw-tph's
recommendation/config file for trying the cs4237 driver instead.
At this point, I don't care if it's OSS or ALSA - I'd like ALSA, but beggers can't be choosers.
Any help in this is appreciated.