From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: alsa09 sound for portable computers Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 17:11:33 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <3CACBDD6.3060705@superbug.demon.co.uk> <3CB1AEBD.203@superbug.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <3CB1AEBD.203@superbug.demon.co.uk> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: James@superbug.demon.co.uk Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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