Bug#288005: acknowledged by developer (Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#288005: alsa-base: Unable to use cs4237b sound card with alsa)

[Alexander Toresson]

I'm aware that that might be a problem. There are one option in my
bios which affects it - audio mode can be set to disabled, half-duplex
and full-duplex. Half-duplex means that it cannot record and play at
the same time. I've tried both half-duplex and full-duplex. I've never
set it to disabled.
Another thing is that I cannot access the bios settings in linux,
other than on start-up. Normally I can use fn-f1 anytime to come into
the bios settings. So there might be some info in it in in that
situation that I've never seen.
I've also upgraded to the newest bios, A12. I guess many people won't
do this. It involves running a diskette extractor to make a diskette
with the flash bios updater, and then running it in dos. There may be
some unknown problem with either the bios or linux with that version
of it.
The soundcard is in the pnp list, so how come it isn't detected? Is
there any way to get more info on exactly what is happening?

Regards, Alexander Toresson

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:33:43 -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System
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> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> #288005: alsa-base: Unable to use cs4237b sound card with alsa,
> which was filed against the alsa-base package.
> 
> It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
> Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl>.
> 
> Their explanation is attached below.  If this explanation is
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> Subject: Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#288005: alsa-base: Unable to use cs4237b
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> On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 17:32 +0100, Alexander Toresson wrote:
> > My laptop has a Crystal CS4237b sound card, and so I should be able to
> > use the snd-cs4236 driver. It's also compatible with the sb pro, so I
> > should also be able to use the sb8 driver. None of these work on my
> > system.
> 
> I am closing this because it is almost certainly a local problem.
> Perhaps you have to switch on the hardware using your BIOS setup
> program.  Perhaps you have to enable PNP configuration of your hardware.
> Perhaps ...
> --
> Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl>
> 
>