cant get sound working

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: cant get sound working
started by: king_crimson

Posted by king_crimson on June 11 2005,20:28

hi... i am running DSL on a toshiba satellite 2535CDS laptop. everything works great, except i can't get the sound working. i try to enable it's onboard SB-compatible card type typing:

sudo su
modprobe sb

it appears to execute with no errors. when i try to play an MP3 in XMMS, the time meter changes to 0:00 and then the whole system just locks up.

any clues?? thanks!
-mike

Posted by tempestuous on June 12 2005,03:04

It's always worth finding out exactly what model of sound chip you have ... and yes, they never seem to list it in the manual.
From a quick Google search it appears you have the Yamaha OPL3-SA3. So you're trying to load the wrong driver. The OSS sb driver might work, but there's a better one - opl3sa2.
Configuration details here
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=3056 >

Posted by king_crimson on June 12 2005,21:07

ohman... THANK YOU!

first time ive heard sound on this laptop... i got off ebay a few months ago but it doesnt have a hard drive. it came with one but it turned out to be bad. so ive been using DSL on this thing since i got it

i get my first paycheck from my new job on the 15th... first thing im doing is buying a 40gb HDD at circuit city

then im gonna put winXP on it so i dont have to hassle around to get wifi lan going on it.

but anyway, thanks! its working GREAT

Posted by king_crimson on June 12 2005,22:50

one more quick question... how can i create a DSL floppy boot disk that remembers my modprobe opl3sa2 command?

if i can do that, it'd be great! anybody know?

thanks again!
-mike

Posted by ke4nt1 on June 12 2005,23:52

See if this works.. ( I'm guessing here.. )

There is very little room left on the boot floppy,
so a normal backup is probably not going to fit on there..
( the usual way is to add the /opt/bootlocal.sh to your filetool.lst )

But you could try to make a 1 file extension.
Create your /opt/bootlocal.sh file, with the modprobe line in it.
then make a tar.gz file adding only this 1 file.
Call it mysound.tar.gz , and place it on the floppy.
It should autoload on bootup, and replace the default.

There are a multitude of ways to make the .tar.gz file ..

let us know if you need more,
or if this bombs hopelessly..

73
ke4nt

Posted by king_crimson on June 13 2005,03:05

just using the regular "bootfloppy.img" file?