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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?


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Merlin Zener                       mailto:merlin@merlinzener.com
Piano and Synthesizer                 http://www.merlinzener.com
Noosa, Australia

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