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ALSA Sound Configuration

Lindsay Haisley supplied the following configuration file for alsa:

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4236
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# OSS/Free portion - card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

# Set this to the correct number of cards. 
options snd cards_limit=1

# Options for the Crystal sound card in the Dell Latitude CPi D300XT
options snd-cs4236 index=0 id=CARD_0 port=0x530 cport=0x210 mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388 irq=5 mpu_irq=9 dma1=0 dma2=1 isapnp=0

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore

alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss