larry a price wrote:
> What are the best ways to get information out of the OS (debian 2.2) as to
> what's present in the hardware and what if anything do i need to do to get
> /dev/audio hooked into the onboard speaker?
cat /proc/sound
If it's an OSS driver (or an ALSA driver mimicing OSS) it'll tell you
something.
> if the .au is not in the same byte-format i would get a different error
> msg than; bash: /dev/audio: No Such Device, right?
Ah. No sound driver. Never mind about /proc/sound.
If you don't know what your sound chip is, it will be hard to figure
out. There is no Toshiba 4900CT on the Linux Laptops page [1]. But
that page does point to one of the Toshiba T4700CT pages which points
to a quick reference guide at Toshiba [2].
The quick reference guide says the T4900CT (in the T Series - is that
what you have?) has a "WSS+OPL3" sound controller. The kernel source
says that WSS is Windows Sound System and OPL3 is a Yamaha FM synth.
I'd grep through the kernel source for "WSS" and "OPL3" and see what I
could find out. (Actually, I just did that, but the evidence was
inconclusive. (-: ) Might try insmodding the mss driver...
[1] http://www.linux-laptop.net/
[2]
http://www.toshiba.ca/my_html/support/downloads/Quick%20Reference/Quick%20Reference.htm
> Pointers to docs, useful advice, etc. would all be welcome.
> The machine in question is a toshiba 4900ct laptop (pentium 75)
As I understand Toshiba's laptop line, "4900ct" is not sufficient To
identify a machine. You also need to specify its line, e.g., Portege,
Libretto, Satellite, Tecra or T Series.
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