having trouble getting sound working...

Merlin Zener

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Jun 10, 2002, 5:09:03 PM6/10/02

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G'day,

just installed Mandrake 8.2 on a Toshiba laptop - it has
a Yamaha OPL3-SA3 soundcard in it.

Well you guessed it, no sound; the mp3 player starts and the
display bounces like it's playing, the CD player counts ok,
VCDs play without sound...
Please "give me a clue"(tm) as to where to start.
I'm totally new at this, and kind of overwhelmed by the amount
of reading to be done [even for the basics! :) ]

I went straight to the Mandrake site and searched on "sound"
- it said to do lspcidrake at the command prompt: no listing
of any sound card. No surprise there, I suppose.
Reading further, [search for troubleshooting] leads to another
doc: "Troubleshooting sound of music" which says to do a
command "sndconfig"
But that returns a "command not found".

Digging into the sound-howto doc leads me to look at my
/lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel/drivers/sound/
[although of course in my case it's actually
/lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/ ] to see if my
soundcard is there; it's not.

At this stage [do I need to be rebuilding the kernel?] I thought
I'd appeal to the greater wisdom - hopefully someone else has
been through this already, any hints or pointers will be very
very much appreciated.

TIA :)

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Zebee Johnstone

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Jun 10, 2002, 5:25:22 PM6/10/02

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In aus.computers.linux on Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:09:03 GMT

Merlin Zener <mer...@merlinzener.com> wrote:
>G'day,
>
>just installed Mandrake 8.2 on a Toshiba laptop - it has
>a Yamaha OPL3-SA3 soundcard in it.
>

I find that the quickest way to resolve sound problems is to go to
www.opensound.com and try their driver.

You can download for free, but it cuts out after a certain while, or
buy the thing, it's pretty cheap.

Worth trying, if it solved the problem, it's worth the money.

Zebee

Brian Mc Kinney

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Jun 10, 2002, 11:34:36 PM6/10/02

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Mandrake sets the volume level at zero as default
Open the sound mixer on Multimedia ---> Sound ---> Sound Mixer
A little speaker icon appears on youe taskbar.
right click on it and choose restore.
Set the volumes until you are satisfied and then set these new volumes
as default
Brian

Merlin Zener

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Jun 11, 2002, 1:31:50 AM6/11/02

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G'day Brian,
Thanks for the thought.

But that's not it - rightclick does nothing. Doubleclick,
however, on the speaker brings up a sound mixer window which
is completely blank, and after a while an error message appears:

"Error while initializing the sound driver:
device:/dev/dsp can't be opened (invalid argument)"

Back at the command line, ls while in /dev shows that dsp
doesn't indeed exist.
Seems to me the Mandrake install failed to detect the card and
install the proper driver; the question now becomes, how do I
go about finding the right driver, and then installing it?

Troy Dack

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Jun 11, 2002, 4:00:06 AM6/11/02

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Merlin Zener wrote:

http://www.google.com/search?restrict=linux&q=Yamaha%20OPL3-SA3%20Toshiba%20laptop

3rd link:
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/drivers.html

But I have a feeling you might need to install this:
http://www.alsa-project.org/

It has support for your sound card.

Troy.

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