Re: [TCLUG:21296] Sound on Latitude XPi 133

[Andrew Nemchenko <drew@usfamily.net>]

why not just have the module load automatically use linuxconf and then simply
use sndconfig to select the card? Thats how simple it is for me. Unless you
are asking some thing completly different.

Michael Vieths wrote:

> I picked up a Dell Latitude XPi P133ST a while back, and I've installed
> Linux on it.  I've got everything going except the sound on it.  Dell's
> webpage (http://support.dell.com/docs/DTA/_titan/00000001.htm#P133ST)
> lists it as:
>
> SoundBlasterPro Compatible 3.01 vboice and music functions
> ES1888
> ISA bus
> IRQ 5 (capture IRQ) 9 (playback IRQ)
> DMA 0 (capture DMA) 2 (playback DMA)
> I/O 0x220-22F (configuration registers)
> I/O 0x288-28B (FM synthesizer)
> I/O 0x330-331 (MPU 401)
>
> Based on the kernel docs, the SoundBlaster module should be able to do it.
> I've been using:
>
> /sbin/modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
>
> (insert just about every combination of the above IRQs, DMAs, and I/O
> addresses I could think of)
>
> It consistently comes up as 'device or resource busy'.  I checked
> /proc/interrupts, /proc/ioports, and /proc/dma and none of the requisite
> resources are busy.  Configuring it in the kernel instead of as a module
> doesn't result in any direct errors, but results in 'No such device' any
> time I try to send something to /dev/audio, and /dev/sndstat shows stuff
> under Installed Drivers and Card Config (everything here is in
> parentheses), but nothing under Audio, Synth, or Midi devices.
>
> Anyone else tried setting up sound on one of these that could give me a
> hint?
>
> Michael Vieths
> Foeclan@Winternet.Com
>
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