From: Dave Airlie (david.airlie at domain ul.ie)
Date: Fri 16 Apr 1999 - 16:42:59 IST
I would think that this is a hardware problem I bet Dell never ran the
audio cable from the back of the CD drive to the mboard sound card
interface if there is one ...
Dave.
-- ------------ David Airlie, David.Airlie at domain ul.ie,airlied at domain skynet -------- Telecommunications Research Centre, ECE Dept, University of Limerick \ http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied -- Telecommunications Researcher \ --- TEL: +353-61-202695 ----------------------------------------------- On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, John Kinsella wrote: > Hi. > I've just received a new Dell Optiplex GX1 (P3). > All's well but for sound support - in fact just playing audio CD's (OK I > know it's not a big deal but...) > > The sound hardware is a Crystal Semi CS4236 integrated audio chip. There > is kernel support for CS4232-based chips so I went for that when > compiling the kernel. All's well wrt playing au files or (for example) > RealAudio but I cannot play audio CD's. > > Using workman or kscd (I use SuSe 6.0 distribution with kernel 2.0.36) > the structure (tracks etc) show up & the prog seems to play the tracks > but no sound.... any tips? > > I append the relevant extract from the boot log: > > Sound initialization started > <CS4232 (CS4231)> at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1,3 > <MPU-401 1.5U Midi interface #1> at 0x330 irq 11 > <Yamaha OPL3 FM> at 0x388 > Sound initialization complete > > > Could the problem be with the base addresses? I think the IRQ's are OK, > had to change the MPU from IRQ9 to IRQ11 due to clash with net card.. > > Thanks in advance .......... > > John >
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