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Subject: Re: Sound on Dell Inspiron 3500
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 14:36:11 +0100
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> I have cvsupped yesterday and i can now report that sound works again.
> BUT, it is killed by suspend-resume, and even hot booting does not
> restore sound functionality. This means that basically sound does not
> work for this laptop at present. The card is probed correctly at boot,
> but i get
> pcm0: play interrupt timeout, channel dead
>
> pcm0: <Neomagic 256AV (non-ac97)> at port
> 0x220-0x22f,0x530-0x537,0x388-0x38f,0x320-0x321 irq 5 drq 0,1 on isa0

the non ac97 neomagics are basically mss chips.  however, we do not support
suspend/resume with this setup due to a lack of hardware to work with.
please feel free to implement support and submit a pr.

> Also, it is impossible to get the sound card probed by the sound modules.

which module?

'kldload snd_mss' should work.

    -cg



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