From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: alsa09 sound for portable computers Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 18:11:00 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <3CACBDD6.3060705@superbug.demon.co.uk> <3CB1AEBD.203@superbug.demon.co.uk> <20020408153134.67F904CAD@xun0.sr.bham.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <20020408153134.67F904CAD@xun0.sr.bham.ac.uk> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: James Tappin Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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