Almost ALSA!

[David Curtis]

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 00:40, W. Guy Thomas wrote:
> 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:
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> > 
> > 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.
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> 
> 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!

This guy here http://www.antlinux.com/Toshiba490XCDT/ got alsa working
on a Toshiba 490XCDT which also has the yamaha opl3sa2. Seems to be
similar to what you have above, except he has added entries in
/etc/conf.modules. Have you done this? 

Dave