Sound on an old Compaq laptop 1245

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: Sound on an old Compaq laptop 1245
started by: camorri

Posted by camorri on Dec. 26 2006,18:26

I have been considering using DSL on my old Compaq Presario laptop, model 1245. One problem I have not been able to solve is the lack of sound.

Under Xubuntu I use snd-18xx sound driver. That works fine. I can not find such a driver for DSL.

Are there any how-to's for sound on DSL ? Where are the sound drivers? Either Alsa or OSS.

I'm new to DSL, been using linux for several years.

Posted by u2musicmike on Dec. 27 2006,22:42

Xubuntu probably has a complied driver for the card but DSL is made to fit 50Meg so some drivers are left out. I have an older Compaq laptop and it works with the sb - soundblaster driver.

Maybe this post will give you some ideas:

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....20;st=0 >

Posted by camorri on Dec. 29 2006,19:46

Well, to my surprise the sb driver is working. Here is what worked on the Compaq 1245.

Code Sample

rmmod soundcore
modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=ox330
modprobe opl3

I had to raise the volume.... music...

This is using OSS, not alsa. I'm going to see if I can get alsa to work on this machine. It works under Xubuntu. This is not at all critical that I get it working, just like to know if I can...

Thank-you for your post, and the link to the other thread.

Posted by iansl2000 on Jan. 04 2007,23:31

I have the same model laptop and got the sound working using only

modprobe sb

however the sound is very stuttering.
Is this because I only have 64mb RAM on this machine?
Can anyone suggest a way around thls?

I tried the commands shown by the previous poster but got

'Cant locate module op13'

Thanks in advance for any help
Ian

Posted by rja on Feb. 06 2007,02:34