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In aus.computers.linux on Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:09:03 GMT
Merlin Zener <merlin@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

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

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?


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

"No-one ever went blind from looking on the bright side of life"