help needed for cs423x chips

help needed for cs423x chips

[moc liamtoh]

alright, i cant get my sound to work. i have an aopen MB with built on 
sound and video. sound chip says cs4235 on the chip but isapnp detects 
as 4236. i have tried different settings with isapnp and different 
modules for sound support....i have also tried without modules and just 
ocmpiling into kernel...i have tried configuration manager alone and 
with isapnp and modules...basically i was trying about everything i 
could think...only problem being that i dont know that much yet and 
therefore am running out off ideas...plus it is taking time to learn 
stuff to try different things....not that i mind the knowledge but i 
would like to get sound working quickly =)

so if anyone could spare the time to help i would appreciate it. i am 
fairly knowledgeable with linux, i just mainly need to know what to 
do...(i guess basically a brief howto sort of answer would be cool, 
detailing the steps enough that i can understand. eg: say 

tar xvf blahblahbalh

not just "decompress with gzip and then use tar on it."

thanks again.

Joshua Kukovec



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help needed for cs423x chips

[moc liamtoh]

alright, i cant get my sound to work. i have an aopen MB with built on 
sound and video. sound chip says cs4235 on the chip but isapnp detects 
as 4236. i have tried different settings with isapnp and different 
modules for sound support....i have also tried without modules and just 
ocmpiling into kernel...i have tried configuration manager alone and 
with isapnp and modules...basically i was trying about everything i 
could think...only problem being that i dont know that much yet and 
therefore am running out off ideas...plus it is taking time to learn 
stuff to try different things....not that i mind the knowledge but i 
would like to get sound working quickly =)

so if anyone could spare the time to help i would appreciate it. i am 
fairly knowledgeable with linux, i just mainly need to know what to 
do...(i guess basically a brief howto sort of answer would be cool, 
detailing the steps enough that i can understand. eg: say 

tar xvf blahblahbalh

not just "decompress with gzip and then use tar on it."

thanks again.

Joshua Kukovec



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Re: help needed for cs423x chips

[Matthew B. Marlowe]

Damnit, how do I get off this mailing list? :)

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, moc liamtoh wrote:

> alright, i cant get my sound to work. i have an aopen MB with built on 
> sound and video. sound chip says cs4235 on the chip but isapnp detects 
> as 4236. i have tried different settings with isapnp and different 
> modules for sound support....i have also tried without modules and just 
> ocmpiling into kernel...i have tried configuration manager alone and 
> with isapnp and modules...basically i was trying about everything i 
> could think...only problem being that i dont know that much yet and 
> therefore am running out off ideas...plus it is taking time to learn 
> stuff to try different things....not that i mind the knowledge but i 
> would like to get sound working quickly =)
> 
> so if anyone could spare the time to help i would appreciate it. i am 
> fairly knowledgeable with linux, i just mainly need to know what to 
> do...(i guess basically a brief howto sort of answer would be cool, 
> detailing the steps enough that i can understand. eg: say 
> 
> tar xvf blahblahbalh
> 
> not just "decompress with gzip and then use tar on it."
> 
> thanks again.
> 
> Joshua Kukovec
> 
> 
> 
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Re: help needed for cs423x chips

[William Law Kar Wai]

Hi,
  I once successfully configured the sound for the cs4236 sound chip.
Unfortunately I forgot how to configure it, but here is something that
I might recall. I was using Redhat 5.0. I downloaded OSSfree version
3.8. I first compiled the kernel without the sound support. Then I use
the isapnp tools to configure the pnp card, of course you have to edit
the files and enable certain configurations. After that, I decompress
the ossfree sound driver in the /usr/src/linux directory. Then I
recompile the kernel using the configuration I set in the isapnp.conf.
It once worked, even the MIDI and other stuff worked. But when I
reformatted the hard disk and reinstall everything, is doesn't work at
all. You can also try to download the ALSA sound driver. I heard that
it works. It supports your sound chips. I haven't try it yet, but soon.

Trying my best to help...

William,
Running Redhat 5.1
www.redhat.com




---moc liamtoh <mackilla@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> alright, i cant get my sound to work. i have an aopen MB with built
on 
> sound and video. sound chip says cs4235 on the chip but isapnp
detects 
> as 4236. i have tried different settings with isapnp and different 
> modules for sound support....i have also tried without modules and
just 
> ocmpiling into kernel...i have tried configuration manager alone and 
> with isapnp and modules...basically i was trying about everything i 
> could think...only problem being that i dont know that much yet and 
> therefore am running out off ideas...plus it is taking time to learn 
> stuff to try different things....not that i mind the knowledge but i 
> would like to get sound working quickly =)
> 
> so if anyone could spare the time to help i would appreciate it. i am 
> fairly knowledgeable with linux, i just mainly need to know what to 
> do...(i guess basically a brief howto sort of answer would be cool, 
> detailing the steps enough that i can understand. eg: say 
> 
> tar xvf blahblahbalh
> 
> not just "decompress with gzip and then use tar on it."
> 
> thanks again.
> 
> Joshua Kukovec
> 
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________
> Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
> 

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Re: help needed for cs423x chips

[Etienne Grossmann]

  Hello,

  I don't have much of an idea, but : an ALSA (advanced linux sound 
architecture) page at http://alsa.jcu.cz/alsa/driver-source/INSTALL
seems to indicate that chips cs4235 and cs4236 have the same driver.

  Good luck,

  Etienne

Re: help needed for cs423x chips

[Tony Nugent]

On Tue Dec 08 1998 at 23:49, "moc liamtoh" wrote to linux-sound:

> alright, i cant get my sound to work. i have an aopen MB with built on
> sound and video. sound chip says cs4235 on the chip but isapnp detects as
> 4236. i have tried different settings with isapnp and different modules
> for sound support....i have also tried without modules and just ocmpiling
> into kernel...i have tried configuration manager alone and with isapnp
> and modules...basically i was trying about everything i could
> think...only problem being that i dont know that much yet and therefore
> am running out off ideas...plus it is taking time to learn stuff to try
> different things....not that i mind the knowledge but i would like to get
> sound working quickly =)

The trick seems to be in getting the dma/irq settings tweaked just right.

I have a Dell Latitude CP (laptop) here with such a beast in it.  It took
me ages to get the sound going with the kernel sound driver - but I finally
did it :)

It's running RedHat 5.2 (standard kernel from the install), but I have no
idea how "generic" this solution is.

The most important thing is to get /etc/conf.modules right.  This is what I
have in it...


# turn off unwanted net stuff...
alias net-pf-3 off	# no ax25
alias net-pf-4 off	# no ipx
alias net-pf-5 off	# no appletalk
alias net-pf-6 off	# no netrom
# for the CDROM...
alias iso9660 isofs
# sound driver
alias sound cs4232
options -k cs4232 io=0x530 dma=1 dma2=0 irq=5
# no midi yet :(


This works for the audio driver, but I have yet to get the midi to work.

(Any hints on how to do this would be most appreciated - please Cc any
replies from linux-laptop as I'm not subscribed to that list, thanx).

Cheers
Tony

Re: help needed for cs423x chips

[D Sen]

If you are running Window$, you can use the control panel to find out the
IRQ/IO Port/DMA. Once you have that info, you have a few different choices
to get sound going. Look at http://www.levien.com/tp600.html for a
description.

Good luck,
DSs

On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Tony Nugent wrote:

> On Tue Dec 08 1998 at 23:49, "moc liamtoh" wrote to linux-sound:
> 
> > alright, i cant get my sound to work. i have an aopen MB with built on
> > sound and video. sound chip says cs4235 on the chip but isapnp detects as
> > 4236. i have tried different settings with isapnp and different modules
> > for sound support....i have also tried without modules and just ocmpiling
> > into kernel...i have tried configuration manager alone and with isapnp
> > and modules...basically i was trying about everything i could
> > think...only problem being that i dont know that much yet and therefore
> > am running out off ideas...plus it is taking time to learn stuff to try
> > different things....not that i mind the knowledge but i would like to get
> > sound working quickly =)
> 
> The trick seems to be in getting the dma/irq settings tweaked just right.
> 
> I have a Dell Latitude CP (laptop) here with such a beast in it.  It took
> me ages to get the sound going with the kernel sound driver - but I finally
> did it :)
> 
> It's running RedHat 5.2 (standard kernel from the install), but I have no
> idea how "generic" this solution is.
> 
> The most important thing is to get /etc/conf.modules right.  This is what I
> have in it...
> 
> 
> # turn off unwanted net stuff...
> alias net-pf-3 off	# no ax25
> alias net-pf-4 off	# no ipx
> alias net-pf-5 off	# no appletalk
> alias net-pf-6 off	# no netrom
> # for the CDROM...
> alias iso9660 isofs
> # sound driver
> alias sound cs4232
> options -k cs4232 io=0x530 dma=1 dma2=0 irq=5
> # no midi yet :(
> 
> 
> This works for the audio driver, but I have yet to get the midi to work.
> 
> (Any hints on how to do this would be most appreciated - please Cc any
> replies from linux-laptop as I'm not subscribed to that list, thanx).
> 
> Cheers
> Tony
> 

Re: help needed for cs423x chips

[Keith Duthie]

On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Tony Nugent wrote:

> options -k cs4232 io=0x530 dma=1 dma2=0 irq=5
> # no midi yet :(
> 
> 
> This works for the audio driver, but I have yet to get the midi to work.
options cs4232 io=0x530 irq=7 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuirq=9 mpuio=0x330

<Crystal audio controller (CS4236)> at 0x530 irq 7 dma 1,0
<MPU-401 (UART) MIDI> at 0x330 irq 9

ps anyone know how to get the sequencer working on these things?
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Re: help needed for cs423x chips

[Michael Haller]

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> On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Tony Nugent wrote:
> 
> > options -k cs4232 io=0x530 dma=1 dma2=0 irq=5
> > # no midi yet :(
> >
> > This works for the audio driver, but I have yet to get the midi to work.
> options cs4232 io=0x530 irq=7 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuirq=9 mpuio=0x330
>
> <Crystal audio controller (CS4236)> at 0x530 irq 7 dma 1,0
> <MPU-401 (UART) MIDI> at 0x330 irq 9
>
> ps anyone know how to get the sequencer working on these things?

Audio support of the CS4235 with the existing CS4232 driver will not
work because the 4235 does not support ulaw, alaw or adpcm.  sequencer
support probably doesn't work for any of the crystal chips because of a
code ordering problem in cs4232.c.   I'm attaching a patch file for
2.1.131 which fixes these problems on my CS4235.

As Tony and Keith point out, all the settings must be correct.  I use:

modprobe cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=0 dma2=1 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=9
modprobe opl3 io=0x388

Let me know how this works.

Mike Haller

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Re: help needed for cs423x chips

[Keith Duthie]

On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Michael Haller wrote:

> Audio support of the CS4235 with the existing CS4232 driver will not
> work because the 4235 does not support ulaw, alaw or adpcm.  sequencer
> support probably doesn't work for any of the crystal chips because of a
> code ordering problem in cs4232.c.   I'm attaching a patch file for
> 2.1.131 which fixes these problems on my CS4235.
 
> Let me know how this works.

It definitely fixes the problem of the sequencer not working, but I've
also been getting messages about the OSS stuff needing to downgrade the
number of voices used, and I've also been getting breaks in music from
tracker and mpg123 when I scroll down in a web page. I'm just about to 
confirm that these are from the patch by reversing it and testing the
official module.

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Re: help needed for cs423x chips

[Keith Duthie]

On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Keith Duthie wrote:

> tracker and mpg123 when I scroll down in a web page. I'm just about to 
> confirm that these are from the patch by reversing it and testing the
> official module.

Well, I've certainly done _something_. I've reversed the patch, but the
sequencer is still working. Just goes to show... 

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Re: help needed for cs423x chips

[Keith Duthie]

On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Keith Duthie wrote:

> tracker and mpg123 when I scroll down in a web page. I'm just about to 
> confirm that these are from the patch by reversing it and testing the
> official module.

Well, I've certainly done _something_. I've reversed the patch, but the
sequencer is still working. Just goes to show... 

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