Dapper Sound

Alistair Crust alistair at skegnessgrammar.org
Tue Mar 14 11:02:10 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 10:55 +0000, Alistair Crust wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 12:22 +0200, Edward Holcroft wrote:
> > Sorry my mistake:
> > 
> > >>
> > >> I think those might be ISA sound cards in your Dell. which means they
> > >> will not autodetect.
> > >>
> > >> I found that adding the following in lts.conf worked on some old Dell
> > >> optiplexes for me:
> > >>
> > >> SOUND = Y
> > >> SOUND_DAEMON = "esd"
> > 
> > Instead of this line:
> > 
> > >> SMODULE_01 = "sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1"
> > 
> > This is what worked for me:
> > 
> > SMODULE_01 = "cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=9"
> > 
> > I told you the wrong thing previously, for a soundblaster card. Many  
> > of the old Dells have Crystal cs4232 chipsets.
> > 
> > >>
> > >> I must add though that this is on a K12LTSP box which is vanilla
> > >> LTSP; very different to the Edubuntu approach. Still, may be worth a
> > >> try.
> > >>
> > >> Also make sure the sound card is enabled in the BIOS!
> > >>
> > >> cheers
> > >> ed
> > >
> > > tried and failed, I'll look into filing a bug i think and try to  
> > > get LDA
> > > working for us in the mean time.
> > >
> although checking the Dell support site the drivers for a Optiplex GX1
> suggest that it is a sound blaster card.
> 
> I'll give this a try too.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kind regards
> Alistair Crust
> Systems Administrator 
> Skegness Grammar School 
> Vernon Road 
> Skegness 
> PE25 2QS 
> TEL: 01754 610000 (ext'852)
> FAX: 01754 896875 
> 
> 

checking the documentation here.... and banging head against wall.
http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ban%5Fgx1/specs.htm

indeed, CS4236

my apologies.

-- 
Kind regards
Alistair Crust
Systems Administrator 
Skegness Grammar School 
Vernon Road 
Skegness 
PE25 2QS 
TEL: 01754 610000 (ext'852)
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