HD Install :: Boot with alsa on HD install???

A very nice run-thru on sound card setup, tempestuous..

well said.. well done.. good work..

nice to have someone else knowlegable about soundcards on-board..

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ke4nt

Fuzzhead,

Provide us the exact Model Name/Number for your computer and it may be possible to learn the correct sound specifications.

I don't know if this will help you or not, but It might help someone, I just foud the module.conf file for my Compaq armada 7730MT, which there seems to be no way to get into the BIOS on. (Ive tried every key imaginable!!!!!) The only thing I figured out was that pressing the <del> key boots my CD Rom lol. Any way, I got the same thing on my laptop when I did cat /proc/interrupts. ---NO Sound card. I found this modules.conf file on The Linux Laptops Homepage http://home.sprynet.com/~ecsi/ecsi-dev/linux-stuff.html

Try this configuration:

alias sound-slot-0 sb
options op13 io=0x338
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1

Hope that helps

i had the exact same problem, i went as far as apt-get install'ing alsa, then removing it, then i had downloaded the sources to alsa and was going to compile from sources, when i ran into the problem of not having the kernel source, so i came here to find info on how i could get it and found this post and made the file exactly like you said (mind you im on a dell latitude xpi m166st cd laptop - p1 166 mmx w/ 48mb but it has onboard ess 1887 sound) and low and behold.....

it didnt work x.x

however, i decided to mess with it and see if i could get it working so i searched arount the net for a bit and ran into this post on some yahoo forum which eventually led to me figuring out based on this forum and that one what to do to ----KIND OF---- get it working

so

for those under a similar situation, i just added a file called /etc/modutils/ess which contained the following:

Code Sample

alias sound-slot-0 sb
options sb io=0x230 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=3 mpu_ip=0x388 esstype=1887 isapnp=0
alias synth0 opl3
options opl3 io=0x388]
# use next line if it stutters
# options dmabuf=1

and then ran "update-modules", then rebooted, and then i had to run "modprobe sb"
after all that, sound in the terminal mode works, that is, i get beeps when i hit tab (i didnt used to) but xmms wont play so i dunno im gonna keep fiddling with it and hopefully get something goin here

on a side note, where can i get the kernel sources to dsl 1.2 kernel (im assuming its custom?) if i decided to recompile alsa?

thanks for the distro, happy coding

okay so i ended up reinstalling dsl on my hard drive, but have sound working so heres how i did it

first, when booting dsl, i had to use floppy disk cause my cd drive (interally scsi) wont boot on its own, and i used the boot prompt "fb800x600 alsa" to boot it (800x600 laptop screen, sound enabled)

once it booted, i ran the hard drive install script, but at the end when it asked me to reboot, i mounted my hard drive (hda1) from that funny lil mounting thinger in the corner, then typed in "sudo nano /mnt/hda1/etc/lilo.conf" and added "alsa" to the end of the line with all the hdx kernel params in it. then i unmounted hda1 and reboot my computer, removing cd and floppy

once inside my new install, i immediately opened a terminal, changed to root with "sudo su" and did "modprobe sb io=0x230 irq=5 dma=1" and then boom sound works

so to make this stick after reboot, i added a file called /etc/modutils/ess that contained the following:

so then i added this info to

Code Sample

alias sound-slot-0 sb
options sb io=0x230 irq=5 dma=1
options dmabuf=1

and then ran "update-modules"

then i rebooted and now xmms plays mp3s and audio cds (mp3s are stuttery tho - need to upgrade my ram i guess :P) and in console only mode mpg123 plays flawlessly

so im a happy camper now

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