Re: [Alsa-user] nm256: Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop

[Takashi I. <ti...@su...>]

At Wed, 30 May 2007 22:47:34 -0400,
J. McClelland and C. Chow wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your reply - OK, upgraded to 1.0.14.rc4 per instructions on
> http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Neomagic&c
> ard=MagicMedia+256AV.&chip=NM2200&module=nm256.  Behavior is the same.  
> 
> snd-nm256 will not load without force_ac97=1; when sucessfully loaded,
> 
> aplay somefile.wav
> 
> results in 
> 
> aplay: pcm_write:1265: write error: Input/output error
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions!

Likely it's not NM256 with AC97 but internally connected to CS423x.
Try to load snd-cs4232 or snd-opl3sa2, for example.  See
ALSA-Configuration.txt for details. 


Takashi