9.04 9.10 sound driver for Toshiba Tecra8000 cs4231 vs wss

[Frans Ketelaars]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:58:28 +0200, Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:

> I use a historic laptop Tecra8000 with 256M with gnome desktop. The
> sound is not working at all after upgrade from 8.04 LTS. I am currently
> on 9.04.
> I have been fiddling around for days now using references like:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToSetupSoundCards amongst others.
> 
> However, it occurs to me that version 9.xx is pulling the wrong driver,
> namely WSS (?) instead of CS4231.

> Both 8.04 LTS and 9.10 have the snd-cs4231 driver listed in:
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`

I think the top level driver for your soundcard is opl3sa2.
 
> The aplay -l produces this output:
> /////////////////// aplay -l ///////////////////////////////////
> /////////////////////////////// working (8.04) ///////////////// ****
> List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: OPL3SA23 [Yamaha
> OPL3-SA23], device 0: CS4231 [Yamaha OPL3-SA23]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> /////////////////////////////// faulty (9.04) ////////////////// ****
> List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: OPL3SA23 [Yamaha
> OPL3-SA23], device 0: WSS [Yamaha OPL3-SA23]
>   Subdevices: 0/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> 
> I would love if somebody could give me a bit of guidance, I am a bit
> confused to say at least.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484176 might help. You could 
try the alsa-user list if that doesn't help.

And filing a bug report about this regression would be a good idea 
IMHO :-)

    -Frans