by Please help me with my microphone.
I am running RH5.0, an upgrade from 4.1 some time back. With 4.1 I used the
4front oss driver for sound and all was well. After the upgrade, and much
gnashing of teeth over the past year or so, the microphone does not work.
I have tried the 4front package update to no avail - their analyst quit
answering my emails after the 4th pass. Machine is an NEC P166 with 64Mb
and has the built in OPTi82C930 sound chip.
When I say the microphone does not work, I mean that its output is always
directed back to the speakers, not to the mixer port it should be directed
to. What you say into the mike is sent out the speakers immediately. One
cannot record because the mike output goes the wrong place. Seems like
a lib problem but after much cleanup and checking I have been unable to find
anything there. I have demonstrated this facet with an assortment of mixers.
Windoze originally treated this soundcard as a SB Pro and reporte the
following info on it:
0220-022F
0320-0321
0388-038F
0530-0537
IRQ 5,9
DMA0,3
Under windoze, the card was always finnicky to get working. The windoze
discovery process had to be iterated with some deliberate discover then
delete steps which only Bill could explain. Now the old windoze package,
which still boots, much to my surprise, can no longer recognize or drive
the card. Since everything but the mike works in linux, I conclude this
is an artifact of windoze, not the hardware.
Notwithstanding that the sound card works, there is no indication on
bootup that the sound card is being discovered.
cat /dev/sndstat yeilds
Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Sat Dec 12 10:33:13 /etc/localtime 1998 root,
Linux P166 2.0.32 #24 Thu Dec 10 22:46:53 /etc/localtime 1998 i586 unknown)
Kernel: Linux P166 2.0.32 #25 Sat Dec 12 10:35:09 /etc/localtime 1998 i586
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 19: MAD16/Mozart (MSS)
Type 20: MAD16/Mozart (MPU)
Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
Card config:
MAD16/Mozart (MSS) at 0x530 irq 7 drq 0,3
MAD16/Mozart (MPU) at 0x320 irq 5 drq 0
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0
Audio devices:
0: MAD16 WSS (AD1848)
Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL-3
Midi devices:
0: Mad16/Mozart
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
0: MAD16 WSS (AD1848)
Thank for any help anyone can give me.