Re: [Alsa-user] Cyrrus Logic Crystal CS4237B to configure

[Hulin T. <hul...@wa...>]

Rene Herman a =E9crit :
> Hulin Thibaud wrote:
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>> Hum, I'm not sure to understand... My english and my computers
>> knowlege are not very good !
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> Oh, I see... But no, never mind, it's just that the driver is now being=
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> loaded without using PnP (you are providing all the parameters manually=
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> on the modprobe command line). Best would be if that were not necessary=
.
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> If you use the 1.0.11-rc5 snd-cs4232 driver that you compiled and=20
> installed, and you use simply "modprobe snd-cs4232", not specifying any=
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> parameters, it does not load? It gives you those PnP WSS configure=20
> failures in dmesg that I saw earlier?

After reboot, modprobe snd-cs4232 give the usual error. Last 7 lines of=20
dmesg :
[4297869.345000] pnp: Device 00:10 activated.
[4297869.346000] ALSA=20
/home/hulin/alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5/isa/cs423x/../../alsa-kernel/isa/cs423x=
/cs4236.c:294:=20
CS4232 WSS PnP manual resources are invalid, using auto config
[4297869.348000] CS4232 WSS PnP configure failed for WSS (out of resource=
s?)
[4297869.349000] PnP BIOS detection failed for CS4232
[4297869.364000] pnp: Device 00:10 disabled.
[4297869.364000] cs4232-pnpbios: probe of 00:10 failed with error -16
[4297869.372000] CS4232 soundcard not found or device busy

> If so, I said I will not bother trying to debug/fix that and the manual=
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> route that now works will do.

Sure, thank you. But : do you think that manually debug at every start=20
is a good thing ? Is it difficult to fix the pnp=20
/sys/devices/pnp0/00:10/resources opened and automatize it ?

>> I tested mplayer and that works, I can see divx ! And hear them. An ol=
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>> pentium II 233Mhz in multimedia
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> A Pentium 1 (MMX) probably in fact. "cat /proc/cpuinfo" will tell.

Yes, it's a Pentium I. Hopeful...

>> that's a bad news for hardware constructors, no ?!...
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> You'll get skips and stuff yet; a 233 MHz CPU is extremely minimal. But=
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> generally, yes, for a number of years now non-gamers easily get by for=20
> quite a long time with their hardware. This in fact is only getting=20
> better; the power required for games versus year-of-publication seems=20
> much more non-linear then for non-games meaning that the non-gamer is=20
> buying a more and more ridiculously overpowered PC every time he=20
> upgrades -- which then lasts him longer.

I agree, so much of people throw their old hardware because the new=20
windows is arrived... And Ubuntu or Mandrake, that are very popular for=20
linux big public, require new (or more ridiculously overpowered)=20
hardware. Idem for OpenOffice, Firefox, Gnome, KDE... This race to power=20
do live the market of computers, necessary sometimes but not often. So,=20
my reflexion is that developing tools and howtos for old (!) computers=20
can help people, democratize informatic and help linux to grow.

Thibaud.