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spmcg

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Posted: July 13 2006,13:19

Hey, thanks, this worked a treat for me. I have a Compaq Armada 1520 and just loaded DSL. I also did not have sndconfig, but did the modprobe command, using irq=4, all other settings as in your first post and it worked!
:laugh:

One question - will this "stick" or do I need to do this every time.

Now all I have to do is figure out how to connect to my wireless network! :angry:

piccolo

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Posted: July 13 2006,14:53

Finally I hear that some one have success after many time!
Thanks for feedback spmcg
Right, that sound settings are lost when you reboot your computer. This is the final part of the puzzle.
But you can solve this problem easily, so:

Open Aterminal and write:

sudo su
beaver

That open beaver text editor with root permission.
Next, using beaver open /opt/bootlocal.sh file and add the line:

modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=4 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330

Save the changes.

Regarding to internet connection, ask in the Networking Forum (do a search on wireless first to see if the toppic has already been discussed) is the place to look.

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angelv

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Posted: July 17 2006,13:20

Hi,

in case in can be of use (or at least just as encouragement) to anyone, I wanted to let you know that I got sound working beautifully in my Thinkpad 600E with DSL (which I installed a couple of days ago, and so far I'm liking it quite a lot).

Basically I did the following (a re-mix of previous posts):

1. Disable the Fastboot option in the BIOS. This wasn't the exact name on the BIOS, but I cannot remember it now, perhaps QuickBoot, or something similar, but it is obvious which one it is, once you get in the Config menu.

2. My kernel options (in file menu.lst inside /boot/grub directory) are:

kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 vga=790 host=thinkpad toram lang=uk frugal restore=hda2 pnpbios=off mydsl=hda2

The relevant one here should be pnpbios=off

3. Then I installed sndconfig and played with the settings until I got the correct values for the sound card, looked at what other modules were being loaded, and then added this to my /opt/bootlocal.sh file:

# to get the sound working
modprobe sound
modprobe opl3 io=0x388
modprobe cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=5

(these options came from the file /etc/modutils/sndconfig that the program sndconfig created)

With this sound is working fine, and since I backup the /opt directory, I have sound without doing anything after every reboot.

Perhaps not all the steps are strictly necessary, but as they say: "Don't fix it if it is working..."

Cheers,
Angel de Vicente

piccolo

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Posted: July 18 2006,14:30

Many thanks Angel Vicente. Certainly it is encouragement.
Time ago I have recommended to look the /etc/modutils/sndconfig file to know the values for the parameters of the modprobe command. I agree is a strategy very useful.
However in many cases the people don't have or can't connect to internet with DSL to download the "sndconfig" utility becoming difficult to help they.
Perhaps a solution could be to include in the Mirrors another ISO DSL with the "sndconfig" utility so the users that have ISA PnP sound cards should to download this file.
Another solution that I have been suggesting is to see the result from "cat /proc/interrupts" command to know free irq's. The command to see the free dma's is "cat /proc/dma". However seem that the last command don't reveal all the used dma's. Then an iterative process of test and error using the "modprobe" command is required doing too much difficult the work to the Linux newbies users.
More ideas are ever welcomed!

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