KDS Laptop soundcard + linux

From Matthew N Cheely (mcheely at Glue dot umd dot edu) on August 10, 2001

Hey, got a couple of updates on the computer...

> Hmm, actually, we're still having a few issues with
> the sound configuration.  I never even ran sndconfig,
> RedHat took care of all of this behind my back. 
> Unfortunately, the driver that it ended up using works
> for small sound files, usually, but refuses to work
> with XMMS altogether.  Originally, I thought this was
> just a fluke (hence, the howto didn't mention it), but
> I can now see it is something more serious. 
> Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to work on it
> yet.  If you figure it out, please tell me.

My soundcard is now working fine. As far as I can tell there are no
problems with it. The driver module you need to use is called 
'trident.o'
I just modprobe-d it in and everything worked right off. No problems at
all there.

> Great!  I wonder why it worked so well for you?  Did
> xf86config automatically set the shadow-buffer option
> that I mentioned in the howto?

Actually, no my XF86Config file had none of the extra options set in
yours, and it was working pretty well. No clue on that one. I did set 
the
SWCursor option, as I had occasinal mouse shifting to deal with, but 
it's
hard to tell if that actually fixed it, since the problem was so
intermittent to start with.

As far as the modem goes, I can't get it to work. Ther's a webpage on
linux drivers for pctel modems at:

http://www.medres.ch/~jstifter/linux/pctel.html

I did all the stuff to get it installed. I actually had to recomple my
kernel, but anyway, it doesn't seem to be working. I thought about 
trying
some of the older drivers, but they only work under the 2.2.x kernels, 
and
I didn't feel like setting that up.

Anyway, hope this helps with your sound card.

-Matt Cheely