[Alsa-user] Getting ALSA to work on an Omnibook 4150

[Steven S. <ste...@gm...>]

About a week ago I submitted this message.  There has been no  
response.  I'll post it again in case someone who has had this  
problem missed the email, but usually this sort of (lack of) response  
means that nobody knows what is going on.  Is there some way I can  
get help with this?  Should I file a bug report?  This doesn't seem  
as much a bug as me not knowing exactly what is going on, so I didn't  
automatically go to the bug tracker...

Any suggestions at all?

Thanks a million for any help,
Steven Schlansker

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Steven Schlansker <ste...@gm...>
> Date: June 15, 2005 11:42:57 AM PDT
> To: als...@li...
> Subject: Getting ALSA to work on an Omnibook 4150
>
>
> I'm trying to get ALSA working on my Ubuntu-based laptop, an  
> Omnibook 4150 (not 4150B afaik).  The sound card is detected as a  
> nm256, but that does not work and there are many sites that I found  
> with google saying that this is not the proper driver.  I have  
> found references to using the ad1848, cs4232 and the opl3sa2  
> drivers, but none load correctly.  I previously had sound working  
> with the cs4232 driver, but then I decided to reinstall (switched  
> distributions) and I can no longer get the card to work, even with  
> the same module options.  Previously, the options
> sudo modprobe snd-cs4232 snd_port=0x534 snd_cport=0x538  
> snd_mpu_port=-1 snd_fm_port=0x388 snd_irq=5 snd_dma1=1 snd_dma2=0
> as suggested at
> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2002/09/19/ 
> linuxlaptop.html?page=2
> had worked fine, but now it errors with
> FATAL: Error inserting snd_cs4232 (/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/ 
> sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.ko): No such device
> FATAL: Error running install command for snd_cs4232
> and
> CS4232 soundcard not found or device busy
> shows up in dmesg.
>
> alsamixer fails with:
> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
>
> I have searched the Web continuously for almost two days now, and  
> while I have found many reports of having trouble with this none of  
> the solutions have progressed anywhere past failing to load the  
> modules.
>
> lspci -vvv shows:
> 0000:01:00.1 Multimedia audio controller: Neomagic Corporation  
> NM2200 [MagicMedia 256AV Audio] (rev 12)
>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company MagicMedia 256AV Audio  
> Device on Voyager II
>         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-  
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B+
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium  
> >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 10
>         Region 0: Memory at fe000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4M]
>         Region 1: Memory at fe700000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)  
> [size=1M]
>         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME 
> (D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>
> I have had this working before, so I know it's possible.  But I'm  
> completely stuck with nowhere to go.  Hours of perusing the web and  
> searching through the alsa archive have shown nothing useful.   
> What's the next step/does anyone have some magical fix?
> Thanks,
> Steven Schlansker
>