Sound CS4232 on Core 2

[Paul D. Brown]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:17:38AM -0500, Satish Balay wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 20 May 2004, Paul D. Brown wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:20:51PM -0700, Adam L. Klein wrote:
> > > Greetings all.  I've successfully upgraded from Core 1 to Core 2 on my 
> > > Dell OptiPlex GX-1 and everything with the exception of sound is running 
> > > smoothly.  When I boot, I get a "no /dev/dsp" error, though there is a 
> > > /dev/dsp and I've even done a chmod 777 to make sure it's accessible.
> > > 
> > > Under my previous FC-1 install, sound worked flawlessly.  Any advice, 
> > > insight, etc?  I tried /sbin/sndconfig and it complains of a soundcore.o 
> > > missing (and I know sndconfig is depricated in FC2).  I'd really like to 
> > > be able to listen to CDs and have sound working.
> > > 
> > > Thanks all.
> > > 
> > > Adam Klein
> > 
> > I have a similar problem.  My modules.conf from FC1 included the following:
> 
> BTW: FC2 uses /etc/modprobe.conf - not modules.conf. Maybe you can run
> system-config-sound and see if it fixes things up..
> 
> I have a 600E which used to use cs4232 driver. The config for FC2/2.6
> ALSA was the following:
> 
> $ cat modprobe.conf
> alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
> 
> # ALSA portion
> alias char-major-116 snd
> 
> alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4236 
> # You have to specify every damm paramter to get it working:
> options snd-cs4236 isapnp=0 cport=0x538 port=0x530 sb_port=0x220 fm_port=0x388 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0
> 
> #alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
> #alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
> #alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
> 
> # Set this to the correct number of cards.
> #options snd cards_limit=1

Now sound works!  (cue:  'And there was much rejoicing...').  My modprobe.conf is
as follows:
# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 3c59x
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd

alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4236
options snd-cs4236 isapnp=1

After setting up modprobe.conf correctly I ran 
# modprobe snd-card-0

Then ran alsamixer to adjust the levels from 0 and muted up to audible.

Thanks, and I hope this word for the OP as well.

Paul