9.04 9.10 sound driver for Toshiba Tecra8000 cs4231 vs wss

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

On Fri, October 23, 2009 19:49, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
> 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

Thanks a lot for the nice link.  I will look at it tomorrow and also file
a bug.

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