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Jorge,
No, I
never wrote it..... Alsa never responded to my offer. I found the whole process
of working with the Alsa Drivers very difficult to learn and implement... after
too much time / work / and effort I finally got them working, but what a
pain in the a** ! I find their documentation very difficult or
non-existant, but here is what I have for a Red Hat 7.2 install on Dell
Precision 210s and 220s...
This
is going to be quick because I get married in 2 weeks... but we can talk about
it in mid-August if you are still intrerested....
Chris
Here
are two /etc/modules.conf files (I will include the i8x10 in here for comparison
to the cs4236) - I have included them as attachments.
1) I
downloaded alsa-driver-0.9rc1.tar.bz2
alsa-lib-0.9rc1.tar.bz2
alsa-util-0.9rc1.tar.bz2
from the www.alsa-project web page and
used the links on the 1st page for the most recent stable
releases.
2)
Untar each of the 3 files with 'tar -xjf filename'
command
3)
Enter alsa-driver-0.9rc1 directory and excuted
a) '
./configure --with-isapnp=yes'
because I
have plug and play sound cards - these sound card are built into the
motherboard.
you many
need to alter the include path - read the INSTALL doc in the
alsa-driver-0.9rc1 directory for Alsa's install manual
./configure
--help with give you several options
b)
make
c) make
install
d) remember
to execute a ' ./snddevices ' as per the INSTALL docs direction to create
sound device links
4)
Repeat ./configure (note - you do not
need the --with-isapnp=yes flag for the other 2 directories)
make
make install
for
the other two directories ( alsa-lib-0.9rc1 and
alsa-util-0.9rc1)
5)
modify you /etc/modules.conf to look like the ones I sent
you
6)
Execute 'modprobe snd-cs4236' (drop the 'card' in 'snd-card-4236'
--- they changed this but it is still in so much of their
docs)
7)
'cat /proc/asound/cards' --- to see if your modprobe worked -
if it did you will see your correct card name there.
8)
make a sym link to auto load alsasound
'ln --symbolic /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound S96alsasound' (---
use S97 or S98 or whatever is avalible)
9)
test with 1) a music cd-rom and 2) an mp3 or wav file (lots of times the
music cd would work but not the mp3)
10)
ALL sounds are muted when alsa starts - I have used the generic 'gmix'
command lots of times to unmute the sound for testing.
11)You
can use these commands to permanently UN-mute the sound and store the
settings
amixer
set 'Master Digital' 43 unmute
amixer
set 'PCM' 63 unmute
amixer
set 'CD' 15 unmute
alsactl store
upon reboot
you should not have to use gmix to unmute the sound.
12)
you can also execute 'alsamixer' at the command prompt to look at their
mixer - but it didn't always work -
I had
a problem with the old CS4236 loading into memory after I rebooted and rewriting
my /etc/modules.conf --- if you get that problem upon reboot let me know
-otherwise I hope this helps,
Chris
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