Re: getting sound to stick in Etch...

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 14:28:27 +0000, Digby Tarvin wrote:
I am having a problem getting audio functionality to stick in a
newly installed Etch system on a Dell precision 410 MT.

There was no sound device immediately after install, so I ran
alsaconf, selected:
legacy Probe legacy ISA (non-PnP) chips
told it to probe "cs4236 Cirrus Logic CS4235-9" then answered Y to
Do you want to modify /etc/modprobe.d/sound
And I get
OK, sound driver is configured.
ALSA CONFIGURATOR will prepare the card for playing now.
Now I will load the ALSA sound driver and use
amixer to raise the default volumes.

This results in /etc/modprobe.d/sound containing:
alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4236
options snd-cs4236 index=0 port=0x530 cport=0x538 isapnp=0 dma1=1 dma2=0 irq=5

[...]

Two problems...
1. after rebooting it is all gone and I have no sound again :(
I assume the modprobe.d/sound file should be causing sound to be configured
at boot time, but it appears not to be..
Any ideas what is going wrong or what I still need to do?

2. No /dev/dsp, so attempting to run esd for gnome fails...
Could it be anything to do with the /etc/modprobe.d entry:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 2007-10-27 21:42 linux-sound-base_noOSS -> /lib/linux-sound-base/noOSS.modprobe.conf

Adding the following two lines to /etc/modules might help:

snd_cs4236
snd_pcm_oss

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