[ILUG] alsa sound with nm256 ?

[Declan Grady]

Hi,
I've been trying to get the alsa sound drivers working with my dell latitude
ls 400 laptop, which has a Neomagic Magicmedia NM256AV sound+video combined
card.

I've spent days at this, even updated my kernel to 2.4.19, to make sure I
hadnt messed up any of the kernel headers while 'learning'.

I've finally managed to get the alsa-driver-0.5.12a compiled, but every time
i try to 'modprobe' the -nm256 module my system simply hangs/locks
up/freezes, requiring a hard kick^H^H^H^Hboot.
(I'm following the destructions from the alsa-project.org site)

from my /proc/pci, I can see the Neomagic card with 2 entries..
------------
  Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation [MagicMedia 256AV] (rev
32).
      IRQ 10.
      Master Capable.  Latency=128.  Min Gnt=16.Max Lat=255.
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf6000000 [0xf6ffffff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfe400000 [0xfe7fffff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfeb00000 [0xfebfffff].
  Bus  1, device   0, function  1:
    Multimedia audio controller: Neomagic Corporation [MagicMedia 256AV
Audio] (rev 32).
      IRQ 10.
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf7800000 [0xf7bfffff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfea00000 [0xfeafffff].
-------------

Please tell me its as simple as adding a few parameters to the modprobe line

Thanks,
Declan