[Linux-disciples] CS4232/4236 drivers

[Stephen R Laniel]

I'm at my wits' end trying to get my sound card to work.
Here's how lspci describes it:

0000:00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4610/11 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)

Here's a page that seems to know what it's talking about,
relating to that card:

http://shorl.com/duprygifrevuko

The money quote seems to be

"As gradedcheese notes this card works with the OSS drivers,
but the Alsa drivers work even better. The snd-cs4232 driver
works but is unstable on the 600E and you should rely on the
snd-cs4236 driver instead. Both late 2.4 series with
external Alsa and 2.6 series kernels with kernel-supplied
Alsa (or external) works well. Add the following to
/etc/modules.conf:


options snd device_mode=0666
alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4236
alias sound-slot-0 snd-cs4236
options snd-cs4236 port=0x530 cport=0x538 isapnp=0 dma1=1
dma2=0 irq=5
# OSS support
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss


...and that should pretty much be it. Either modprobe the
module or use the alsasound script in /etc/init.d, unmute
the proper channels and you're on your way to a better
living with Alsa."

Now I can, for instance, run ogg123 ... but no sound comes
out. I've checked with my mixer program (rexima), and
everything's unmuted. Ogg123 says it's outputting to OSS,
but nothing's coming out. Typing 'ogg123 -d alsa' yields an
error to the effect that there is no such device alsa.

Any idea what might be the problem here? (I apologize for
any imprecision in the above. I am very tired.)

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