not another sound thread, I promise

[yosarian]

Ok, I lied a little - it is another sound question:D .

I've searched previous threads and google high and low and none seem to help.

I hear system beeps coming from one speaker, but I can't play mp3's (mp3 decoder plugin is installed) and neither xmms nor grip will play cds (i think that may be supermount related mdk 9 from reading other posts).

When I try to play an mp3 the error I get says:

Can't open audio; pls check that 1) you have the correct output plugin selected 2) no other programs are blocking the sound card 3) your soundcard is configured correctly.

I'm running Mandrake 9.
I have onboard sound crystal semiconductor's CS4236 chipset.
sndconfig doesn't work
Harddrake doesn't allow me to set up any sound options.

Alsa, alsamixergui, and alsa-utils are installed.
Alsa is setup to start at boot but checking services it says it's stopped and it won't start.

A soundserver called sound, however is running.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thx

[The_Wounded]

u got a non supported soundcard, buy a normal card and disable the onboard soundcard.

[mdwatts]

This is from my kernel source documentation for the CS4232.


To configure the Crystal CS423x sound chip and activate its DSP functions,
modules may be loaded in this order:

modprobe sound
insmod ad1848
insmod uart401
insmod cs4232 io=* irq=* dma=* dma2=*

This is the meaning of the parameters:

io--I/O address of the Windows Sound System (normally 0x534)
irq--IRQ of this device
dma and dma2--DMA channels (DMA2 may be 0)

On some cards, the board attempts to do non-PnP setup, and fails. If you
have problems, use Linux' PnP facilities.

To get MIDI facilities add

insmod opl3 io=*

where "io" is the I/O address of the OPL3 synthesizer. This will be shown
in /proc/sys/pnp and is normally 0x388.


Your soundcard should be supported.

[yosarian]

Thanks mdwatts. I'll give that a shot.

[yosarian]

mdwatts,

you are a genius! i'm now rocking out to stylings of audioslave yet again, thanks.

(i might be back here in a little while to ask how to get those modules to load everytime I boot, but i'm gonna try and struggle with it a little first)

thanks again