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Merlin Zener wrote:

> Brian Mc Kinney wrote:
>> 
>> Merlin Zener wrote:
>> > 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 :)
>> >
>> >
>> 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
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
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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