Re: alsa09 sound for portable computers

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon, 08 Apr 2002 15:52:45 +0100,
James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> >Hi James,
> >
> >At Thu, 04 Apr 2002 21:55:50 +0100,
> >James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> >
> >>Hello
> >>
> >>I have just managed to get alsa09 sound to work on my portable after a 
> >>lot of difficulty with neither alsa or oss modules loading.
> >>I would like to suggest that we start adding an alsa09 howto for 
> >>Portable PC users.
> >>It would have: -
> >>Name of PC,  sample modules.conf line to use.
> >>
> >>My old portable is a Toshiba Satellite 4010CDT which is NOT plug and 
> >>play sound.
> >>
> >
> >could you try my (updated) alsaconf script for test?
> >it's written for suse distribution, but should run on any system with
> >pciutils and dialog.
> >the file is found at
> >	ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/tiwai/alsa9-packages/misc/alsaconf
> >
> >just run it as root, choose "probe legacy isa chips", then choose
> >opl3sa2 from the list.
> >
> >
> >ciao,
> >
> >Takashi
> >
> The sound card was a non-plug and play sound card, so I don't think any 
> current alsaconf file will help.
 
the latest alsaconf above can detect even non-pnp cards, well, in a
very silly way.
it tries to load the driver(s) with all possible paramter
configurations and tests aplay/arecord to check.
that's why it warns at the beginning.
but it works, anyway.


Takashi