[Alsa-user] Kernel options at boot

[Raymond P. <pa...@uf...>]

I have an opl3sa2 card in my laptop and am attempting to get sound to 
work for it.  pnp detection works (lspnp lists the card) and I can see 
the settings I configured in bios.  My card works as a module, but it 
does not work if I compile the alsa driver into the kernel (ver 2.6.5).

I know what parameters to use for the module, I was curious how to pass 
them to the kernel.  In grub I'm attempting something like:
kernel=(hd0,0)/boot/kernel 
snd-opl3sa2=17,YMH0021,1,0,0x370,0x220,0x530,0x388,0x330,5,1,0,3

Which corresponds to the parameters the module takes listed at:
http://opensrc.org/alsa/index.php?page=The+module+options+for+opl3sa2

But that doesn't work, and I was curious how to properly pass my config 
options for the sound card to the kernel.  Am I taking the wrong 
approach thinking I need the snd-opl3sa2 kernel parameter, should I be 
using the OSS opl3sa2 parameter as defined in 
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt (kernel doc)?

If anyone else has had to pass parameters for their sound card to the 
kernel I'd love input, even for non-opl3sa2 cards.

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Raymond Page