Bug 72045 - redhat-config-soundcard-0.9.9-3: fails to detect CS4236 chip
Summary: redhat-config-soundcard-0.9.9-3: fails to detect CS4236 chip
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: redhat-config-soundcard
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact:
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: 72802 75014 77052 77466 79061 80944 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-20 21:06 UTC by Joachim Frieben
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2002-09-07 15:48:26 UTC
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Description Joachim Frieben 2002-08-20 21:06:19 UTC
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Description of problem:
Does not detect the on-board CS4236 sound system of my PR440FX based dual
Pentium Pro workstation.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.9.9-3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch "redhat-config-soundcard".

Actual Results:  The message "No soundcards were detected" is issued.

Expected Results:  "redhat-config-soundcard" should detect and configure the
CS4236 sound chip correctly.

Additional info:

After installing "sndconfig-0.68-4", the latter detects the CS4236 sound chip
immediately and produces a functional "/etc/modules.conf" file.

Comment 1 Dr. Peter Boy 2002-08-23 09:39:44 UTC
Same problem here with a cs 4232

During installation the card seems to be miss-identified. In modules.conf you
find right after installation:
   alias sound-slot-1 ad1848
   post-install sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null
2>&1  || :
   pre-remove sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null
2>&1 || :

and nothing else regarding sound.

Good old sndconfig of beta null (sndconfig-0.68-4) detects the card and
configures it . modules.conf afterwards:
   alias sound-slot-0 cs4232
   post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null
2>&1 || :
   pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null
2>&1 || :
   options sound dmabuf=1
   alias synth0 opl3
   options opl3 io=0x388
   options cs4232 isapnp=1

/proc/isapnp just after installation finished:
Card 1 'CSCe825:Crystal Audio' PnP version 1.0 Product version 0.1
  Logical device 0 'CSC0100:WSS/SB'
    Device is not active                 # ## (because driver not loaded)
    Resources 0
      Priority preferred
      Port 0x534-0x534, align 0x3, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding
      Port 0x388-0x388, align 0x7, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding
      Port 0x220-0x220, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding
      IRQ 5 High-Edge
      DMA 1 8-bit byte-count compatible
      DMA 0,3 8-bit byte-count compatible
      Alternate resources 0:1
      ......  (more alternatives)

and in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf:

class: UNSPEC
bus: ISAPNP
detached: 0
driver: ns558
desc: "Crystal Audio:CTRL"
deviceId: CSC0110
pdeviceId: CSCe825
native: 1
active: 0
cardnum: 0
logdev: 2

          and some lines later:

class: AUDIO
bus: ISAPNP
detached: 0
driver: cs4232
desc: "Crystal Audio:Disabled"
deviceId: CSC010f
pdeviceId: CSCe825
native: 0
active: 0
cardnum: 0
logdev: 1
-
class: AUDIO
bus: ISAPNP
detached: 0
driver: ad1848
desc: "Crystal Audio:WSS/SB"
deviceId: CSC0100
pdeviceId: CSCe825
native: 1
active: 0
cardnum: 0
logdev: 0

Comment 2 Peter van Egdom 2002-08-29 19:57:52 UTC
A similar situation here. I've got a Creative SB AWE64 Gold (ISA card) in
a Red Hat Linux 'null' machine here.

"redhat-config-soundcard" didn't find it ('no soundcards were detected').

"sndconfig" did find the card. After some questions the following modules were
inserted by sndconfig :

awe_wave              170912   0  (unused)
sb                      9332   0 
sb_lib                 44526   0  [sb]
uart401                 8452   0  [sb_lib]
sound                  73780   0  [awe_wave sb_lib uart401]
soundcore               6500   6  [sb_lib sound]

On previous installations - e.g. Red Hat Linux 7.3 - sound always worked
without any trouble.



Comment 3 Peter van Egdom 2002-08-29 19:59:49 UTC
(forgot to mention : tried "redhat-config-soundcard-1.0.1-1")



Comment 4 Need Real Name 2002-09-07 15:48:20 UTC
I've got a dell latitude Cpi D300 XT, sndconfig on RH7.3 and null, don't 
find the sound card, but suggest using soundblaster. 
I also installed sndconfig and got it working on the beta version 
by accepting soundblaster. 


Comment 5 Brent Fox 2002-11-22 18:01:55 UTC
Right, sndconfig had the ability to handle some ISA cards, while
redhat-config-soundcard only handles PCI cards at the moment.

I don't have any current plans to handle ISA cards in redhat-config-soundcard. 
Deferring.

Comment 6 Brent Fox 2002-11-22 18:27:01 UTC
*** Bug 75014 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Brent Fox 2002-11-22 18:27:45 UTC
*** Bug 77052 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Brent Fox 2002-11-22 18:52:12 UTC
*** Bug 77466 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Brent Fox 2002-11-22 20:03:04 UTC
*** Bug 72802 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Aric Blumer 2002-11-25 13:52:30 UTC
Only handling PCI cards?  One of Linux's strong points is its use on older
machines.  Windows supports these sound cards seamlessly--in order to compete,
you do, too. (BTW, my dell machine that exhibits this problem is not that old.)

Comment 11 Aric Blumer 2002-11-25 15:50:13 UTC
One more thing that needs to be added here. This is more than a configuration
problem.  You cannot control the volume either with the gnome-volume-control
app, even after you configure it with the TUI app.

Comment 12 Brent Fox 2002-11-26 16:19:21 UTC
aric, I'm not saying that redhat-config-soundcard will never support ISA cards.
 I'm just trying to be honest about what I can realistically accomplish in the
time between now and the next release.

I can't explain why the gnome-volume-control doesn't work for you.  I don't
think that has to do with redhat-config-soundcard, however.

Comment 13 Brent Fox 2002-12-18 21:25:06 UTC
*** Bug 79061 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14 Brent Fox 2003-01-02 18:00:17 UTC
*** Bug 80944 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15 Cliff Olmsted 2003-01-06 12:26:25 UTC
Just my $0.02, I just installed 8.0 and it failed to configure my SB16 ISA card!
 IMO this really needs to be fixed...my Mom would never have found the solution
to this problem :)  Seriously, can a work around using sndconfig during initial
install be created as a temporary kludge until redhat-config-soundcard is up to
snuff?

Comment 16 Brent Fox 2003-01-14 22:34:38 UTC
snconfig is there if you want to run it.  Or at least it should be.


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