Almost ALSA!
W. Guy Thomas
mrguytx at austin.rr.com
Sat Oct 9 04:40:29 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 21:16, W. Guy Thomas wrote:
> Ok, I'm very close finally to getting ALSA working on this laptop
> (Toshiba 330CDT) with a standard Yamaha opl3sa2 card.
>
> I have loaded the libs, the utils, the driver, the kernel has been
> upgraded and soundcore is loaded. Everything is good until I attempt to
> modprobe the actual device.
>
> I get this:
>
>
> > [root at Toshi speaker-test]# /sbin/modprobe snd-card-opl3sa2
> > FATAL: Module snd_card_opl3sa2 not found.
>
> This is my lsmod, it appears to me that things are loaded
> properly and I have also already run alsaconf which tries to detect
> the card. lsmod here:
>
> Module Size Used by
> snd_opl3_lib 11776 0
> snd_hwdep 10400 1 snd_opl3_lib
> snd_cs4231_lib 33412 0
> snd_mpu401_uart 9344 0
> snd_rawmidi 26432 1 snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_seq_device 8328 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
> snd_pcm 93092 1 snd_cs4231_lib
> snd_timer 30468 3 snd_opl3_lib,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm
> snd 53732 8 snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> soundcore 7713 1 snd
> snd_page_alloc 9864 2 snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm
> md5 3905 1
> ipv6 219268 8
> lp 9773 0
> autofs 17217 0
> orinoco_cs 7625 1
> orinoco 46285 1 orinoco_cs
> hermes 6593 2 orinoco_cs,orinoco
> ds 12997 5 orinoco_cs
> i82365 20129 1
> pcmcia_core 50953 3 orinoco_cs,ds,i82365
> ohci1394 31577 0
> ieee1394 285205 1 ohci1394
> floppy 54513 0
> sg 29153 0
> scsi_mod 106001 1 sg
> parport_pc 21249 0
> parport 36361 2 lp,parport_pc
> toshiba_acpi 5085 0
> button 4825 0
> battery 7373 0
> asus_acpi 9305 0
> ac 3532 0
> ext3 96681 2
> jbd 66393 1 ext3
> [root at Toshi speaker-test]#
>
> I believe I am very close to finally getting this done.
> I would very much appreciate any tips from you guys.
> Thanks in advance always,
>
> =G
Well, I am about to finally give up completely on ALSA. I know I have
followed many links, googled for weeks, tried many varieties of
solutions. I see that this onboard yamaha opl3sa *is* supported and have
tried so many possibilities that my eyes are purple.
It appears to me that there are just too many things I still don't know
about how linux makes calls from say modules.conf which has inserted at
the end of it "yeah, also call modules.conf.init"...and I get lost
trying to keep track of it all. I understand very well the need for
modularization to keep bug tracking minimal, but for the end user it
becomes very tiresome.
I did get samba printing working very nicely to the rest of my windows
wireless network in the house. And gnome-meeting with my webcam is
looking promising (I will use this for my wife to talk to friends and
family in Mexico).
The wireless is completely *flawless* with nary a dropped packet, very
unlike my experience with both W2k and XP.
But with no sound, there just isn't much joy. When I had the previous
2.4 kernel up, OSS worked, but many other things needed to be fixed that
led me to the 2.6.8 kernel. Thus, all the things I fixed by upgrading
the kernel are great now, but I left sound behind.
If anyone has one clear and concise personal experience with ALSA and
specifically the OPL3SA2 Yamaha please let me know. I have googled on it
more than you will ever do in a lifetime.
Happy with my victories. Sad about this last one. And so important.
Take care!
=G
mrguytx at austin dot rr dot com
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