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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 15:05:46 -0500
From: Wei Wang <weiwang@umich.edu>
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Subject: ALSA problem with Dell Inspiron 3000 notebook
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Hi,

I am trying to use the ALSA sound package for a Dell Inspiron 300
notebook. I am getting the following error message:

/lib/modules/2.0.36/misc/snd.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

Here is the information about the PC:

1.  I can not open the notebook to look at the sound chip, but
following is what works with OSS/Free 3.5.4, which has some bugs that
I can't get around:

##
##	Sound with OSS/Free
##
alias sound cs4232
options -k cs4232 io=0x530 irq=9 dma=1,0
alias midi opl3
options -k opl3 io=0x388

Following is what /sbin/lsmod shows after OSS/Free drivers are loaded:

Module         Pages    Used by
cs4232             1            0
uart401            2    [cs4232]        0
ad1848             4    [cs4232]        0
sound             15    [cs4232 uart401 ad1848] 0
soundcore          1    [sound] 5

2.  I have disabled PnP.

3.  Here is what I tried in /etc/conf.modules for the ALSA drivers:

##
##      Sound with ALSA
##
alias char-major-14 snd
alias sound snd-card-cs4232
alias snd-minor-oss-3 snd-pcm1-oss
alias snd-minor-oss-4 snd-pcm1-oss
alias snd-minor-oss-5 snd-pcm1-oss
alias snd-minor-oss-12 snd-pcm1-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-cs4232
options snd snd_major=14 snd_cards_limit=1
options snd-card-cs4232 snd_port=0x530 snd_irq=9 snd_dma1=1 snd_dma2=0
##      snd_cport=0x120 snd_mpu_port=-1 snd_fm_port=-1 snd_jport=-1
##      snd_mpu_irq=(9,11,12,15)

4.  Following are in the /var/log/messages that I feel are related to
the ALSA drivers I was trying to load:

Feb 21 14:04:33 twins kernel: unable to register major device number
14
Feb 21 14:04:33 twins kernel: unable to register major device number
14
Feb 21 14:04:34 twins modprobe: can't locate module char-major-116
Feb 21 14:04:34 twins last message repeated 7 times
Feb 21 14:06:37 twins kernel: unable to register major device number
14
Feb 21 14:06:37 twins kernel: unable to register major device number
14
Feb 21 14:06:37 twins modprobe: can't locate module char-major-116
Feb 21 14:06:38 twins last message repeated 7 times
Feb 21 14:26:02 twins kernel: unable to register major device number
14
Feb 21 14:33:09 twins kernel: unable to register major device number
14
Feb 21 14:33:39 twins kernel: unable to register major device number
14
Feb 21 14:35:02 twins last message repeated 2 times

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
--
Wei Wang

