Thanks for the help, Takashi, it now loads without crashing!
Can't play anything, though. :( I'm starting a new thread for that...
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 05:00:32PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Anyway, plese try to load nm256 driver before starting X server.
> Once when you start X, the signature on VRAM will be lost, so the
> sound driver cannot detect the right position for audio buffer.
> If you've already run X, reboot the machine on the proper runlevel.
Hmmm, maybe this tip should be in the alsa-driver/INSTALL file.
> When the driver is compiled with debug option, it will show the
> detected signature position or an error message, so that you can pass
> the option at the next time.
> > I guessed it might be as reported by /proc/iomem but there's a number
> > of address ranges there and I have no idea which corresponds to
> > "snd_buffer_top":
Apparently those are irrelevant...
> Usually the address mentioned in INSTALL should work, e.g. even on
> Dell notebook 0x25a800 was Ok (sorry, I could test only with ALSA
For me it now loads with:
options snd-card-nm256 snd_index=0 snd_id="NeoMagic" \
snd_force_ac97=1 snd_buffer_top=0x27ec00
This is on a Dell Latitude CPi-A, by the way.
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