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[sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, sindi keesan wrote:

> I tried for several hours to get OSS CS4232 sound working.  Works with
> Puppy Linux ALSA and I used the same IRQ etc.  Any ideas?  It does SB Pro
> emulation but mplayer/mp3 requires SB (16-bit).  CS4236 works as sb.

The key was changing dma2 from 0 to 3.
Kernel 2.4.31

insmod soundcore
insmod sound
insmod uart401
insmod ad1848
insmod opl3 io=0x388
insmod v_midi
insmod cs4232 io=0x0534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=3 
# mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=9

The last line was not needed to use timidity, play, and mplayer
to play midi wav and mp3 files.

The sound is very weak, which can be fixed with mplayer or timidity 
controls or by installing aumix. (I compiled a non-ncurses version for 
glibc 2.2.5). aumix -v +50

David M's mplayer does not support P54C streaming audio (it does work 
offline).  I compiled mplayer for P54C with glibc 2.3.6 (Slackware 11) so 
now I only need to upgrade glibc, which I forgot how to do.

http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/SW11libs.tgz - main glibc 2.3.6 libs

I do not want the entire huge package with gconv etc, just the libraries 
in /lib, so no 'pkg libc*tgz' from Slackware.

I think bl3 runs with libc5 (and uclibc), so there should be no risk if I 
copy the files to /lib and run ldconfig - is this correct?  I have glibc 
2.2.5 already (for use with Opera 8).

This was not easy - BL3 floppy, downloaded BL3 loop, transfered my BL3-HD 
image file via ethernet.  To get ALSA sound working installed puppy linux 
and the large main file would not copy correctly via ethernet (kept 
crashing 1/4 of the way through) or wifi (copied but corrupt) so had to be 
copied via CD-ROM (after remaking /dev/hdc on my newer laptop).  Turbopup 
used 59 out of 60.5MB memory (booting itself into RAM - I could have 
installed it to a partition to use only 10MB).  Ran the sound wizard and 
looked at /proc (dma, irq, ioports) for correct numbers.  When Win95 
was working (hard drive died) it probably contained the correct settings.

BL3 is perfect for this age computer.  No USB, no cardbus, and pcmcia 
probably too old to be supported by a 2009 linux.  (The 2005 puppys would 
not load).  1996.