At Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:26:06 +0100, Krzysztof Helt wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:37:48 +0100 > Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > At Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:28:56 +0100, > > Krzysztof Helt wrote: > > > Next thing is that your have a second driver loaded: > > > the snd-cs4236. Do not load this driver. AFAIR, the > > > snd-cs4236 driver should be blacklisted or removed > > > on laptop with the cs4232 chip and PNP BIOS. The > > > cs4236 and cs4232 have the same PNP BIOS id-s. > > > The snd-cs4236 was incorrectly loaded instead of > > > the snd-cs4232 at least on my laptop (old Dell). > > > > Isn't there any way to check this conflict between CS4232 and CS4236? > > If we can know that the particular card is for snd-cs4232, snd-cs4236 > > could give a warning and quit... > > > > I have opened my laptop and it has the CS4237B chipset (the one > the Dell states for this model). > A problem is with ALSA drivers. The snd-cs4232 is the only driver > which supports pnpbios. The snd-cs4236 does not so it does not > recognize the card. > > An ultimate solution would be to merge the snd-cs4236-lib into > the wss-lib (as Rene Herman proposed some time ago) then > prepare a single driver for all cs423x cards. Agreed. I don't think that would be too much job, just checking cs4236_lib.c. Only the testing isn't easy nowadays just lack of available hardware. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
