Re: alsa09 sound for portable computers

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon, 8 Apr 2002 16:31:33 +0100,
James Tappin wrote:
> 
> On Monday 08 Apr 2002 16:11, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > the latest alsaconf above can detect even non-pnp cards, well, in a
> > very silly way.
> > it tries to load the driver(s) with all possible paramter
> > configurations and tests aplay/arecord to check.
> > that's why it warns at the beginning.
> > but it works, anyway.
> 
> Does it handle supposedly impossible settings? If I remember correctly, at 
> least on the old Toshiba Tecra 780, one of the I/O ports of the OPL3/SA2 
> (non-pnp) is at a location which the opl3/sa2 module docs don't list as a 
> possible value (and nor does any other opl3/sa2 documentation I've ever seen).
 
hmm, in such a case, no, it cannot detect.
alsaconf probes only the following (standard) values for opl3sa2.
port	 0x370 0x538 0xf86 0x100
wss_port 0x530 0xe80 0xf40 0x604


> That machine is still using Alsa 0.5 as it's using out-of-the-box SuSE 7.3, 
> and I recall doing the modules.conf settings many years ago by manually 
> matching up the bios screen with the alsa docs, and have just kept 
> replicating the settings since.

yeah, that's the cleverest way :)


ciao,

Takashi