Bug 64081 – Alsa-driver (in kernel) doesn't work for CS4232 (Thinkpad 600E)

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexey Parshin 2004-09-14 20:39:49 UTC]

Alsa driver (in kernels 2.6.7, 2.6.8) snd-cs4232 doesn't work. It can't find the device in my Thinkpad even using all the correct irq/port/dma settings. However, OSS driver cs4232 works more or less. Any of these modules for some reason can't be loaded as the part of kernel autoload. I can only load them from my own startup script at the end of the boot process.
The special Thinkpad module (thinkpad) is loaded.

walker ~ #  modprobe snd-cs4232 port=0x530 irq=5 dma1=0 dma2=1
FATAL: Error inserting snd_cs4232 (/lib/modules/2.6.8-gentoo-r3/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.ko): No such device

After that, at the end of dmesg I can find:
CS4232 soundcard not found or device busy

walker ~ # emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.8-gentoo-r3)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 i686 Mobile Pentium II
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3
distcc 2.17 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"  
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"       
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"          
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/root/portage" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowex X aac acpi acpi4linux adns afs aim alsa amd apache2 apm arts avantgo avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzlib calendar cdparanoia cdrom chroot cle266 client codecs cpdflib crypt cups devfs26 dga dio directfb divx4linux dmx dnd dts dvdread encode escreen esd etwin evo faac faad fbcon fbdev ffmpeg flac flash fltk foomaticdb freetype fs ftp gcj gd gdbm geoip gif gimp gimpprint gnome gpm gps gs gtk gtk2 iconv icq imap imlib jabber java javascript jp2 jpeg kde libg++ libwww live lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad mailbox maildir maildrop mbox mcal mikmod mmx mng monkey motif mozcalendar mozilla moznocompose mpeg mpeg4 mplayer mythtv native ncurses network nls no_wxgtk1 nodroproot odbc oggvorbis opengl opie oscar oss pam pcmcia pda pdflib perl png pnp posix ppds pthreads python qt quicktime readline rplay samba scanner sdl silc slang speedo spell ssl stroke svga szip tcpd theora tiff truetype type1 usb virus-scan wmf x86 xine xinerama xml2 xmms xpm xprint xrandr xsl xv xvid yahoo yv12 zlib zvbi"

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2004-09-14 23:11:44 UTC]

*** Bug 64082 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-09-15 10:58:42 UTC]

Does media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.6a work for you?

[Comment 3 Alexey Parshin 2004-09-15 11:32:19 UTC]

Negative. I've emerged it, but had no such luck to make it work.

[Comment 4 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-09-15 13:18:16 UTC]

so then has any version ever worked for you?

[Comment 5 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-09-22 02:48:18 UTC]

ping.  Have you ever had any version of the alsa driver working?

[Comment 6 Alexey Parshin 2004-09-22 07:31:23 UTC]

On my desktop machines, yes. On my Thinkpad, no.

[Comment 7 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-09-22 23:22:30 UTC]

then I think you should talk with the devs upstream as this is not a gentoo specific problem... it's probably a configuration problem that I'm not aware of with your card... you can check the card database upstream as well.