Re: [edlug] Klunker laptop soundcard woes

[Dave Ramsay <david.ramsay@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Gareth Edwards wrote:
> Followup to previous email regarding the "mature" laptop I'm trying to 
> rescue with Linux and love...
>
> I've now got a bare bones Debian system on it and got the network card 
> operational by judicious dpkg-ing. The next issue to arise is getting 
> the soundcard working.
>
> The card itself is an OPTi 82C930. It looks plausible that the ALSA 
> snd-opti93x driver should deal with this one but the problem is that it 
> appears invisible to the system - modprobe is reporting no card found.
>
> lspci yields nothing, and given it's a 1996 vintage machine, spidey 
> sense says the sound chipset is on the far side of the PCI-ISA bridge. 
> However, pnpdump says no cards found, which I found surprising.
>
> How can I tell if the PCI-ISA bridge is operational? Nothing in the logs 
> to suggest a driver failure. Bridge is an UM8886N.

On my circa 1996 PCI based PC with ISA sound I had to force the base 
address, IRQ, etc. to make the soundcard visible. I now have something 
like this in modprobe.conf:

options snd-opti93xx enable=1 isapnp=0 port=0x220 mpu_port=0x330 
fm_port=0x388 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0

Cheers,
Dave.


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