380z sound configuuration

[zem]

Hi.

I have an ibm thinkpad laptop 380z. The sound chip in it is a Crystal 5432 chip.

I cannot get it to work.

Running sndconfig with the chip says this:
--
c54232.o.gz init_module:
no such device

modprobe insmod cs4232.o.gz
failed

modprobe insmod sound-slot-0 failed
--

Thinking it was the wrong chip I tried some others. They came up witht the same message (of course with a different .o.gz filename), but the error message appeared almost instantly as compared to after a delay of 3-5 seconds.

When I run pnpdump it said there were no pnp devices on the system. The PNP is turned on in bios and it worked under windows.

Searching the net people say this notebook was easy to setup for sound: what am I doing wrong? I am running Linux Mandrake 8.2, it did not find the sound card during install either.

Not sure if this is relevant but there is no entry for dsp or audio under the /dev.

Thanks in advance for all help...

[Saptech]

Did you read the Linux on Laptops (http://members.tripod.com/andreas_h/pc/380z_linux.html) for the 380z?

It mention for this example it used; The Audio hardware is a 16 bit CS4237B.

Maybe give that one a try.

[zem]

I read that page to begin with but it was not much help.

The sndconfig says C243x as the sound chip option: I assumed this meant x could be any number.

When it is selected the options to select for io base etc are not what is described on that page, ie no 220.

I am unsure how to set it up with the options that page describes. I tried selected sound blaster as the driver to use with those settings but the same error message appeared. What does 'take the settings from the kernel' mean?

I'm a bit confused as Mandrake is built from redhat, and the page said it was easy to setup with redhat. Is it possible that sound support was not installed cause the installer did not detect a sound card?

[mdwatts]

Have you tried

modprobe cs4232

Does lsmod show any sound modules as being loaded?

[zem]

Hi.

Been a while and I've been trying a variety of things.

I found some settings which let the cs432x module load.

However the laptop still will only beep at me.

When x-windows starts up it says it cannot initalize the sound device and will use null as output.

catting a wav file to the /dev/audio and /dev/dsp does not make any sound either. There IS a /dev/audio and /dev/dsp file / link there, and now modprobe shows the module as being successfully loaded.

I know the sound worked and the speakers work as that is what the beep is played through. I have also tried external speakers as well.

Nick.

[mdwatts]

Could it be a permission problem on the sound devices?

chmod 660 /dev/dsp

chmod 660 /dev/audio