I might be able to help you with this one. I have a Toshiba Satellite
4000CDT with the same sound card. If you hear midi, but not the other
sounds, try cranking up your volume all the way and listening very
closely. Chances are the volume is just too low for you to hear. Tell
it you heard the sound and use whatever mixer you use to crank up the
volume. I agree there's got to be a better way, but it worked for me.
(I'm thinking the gain has been set too low by default, but I don't know
how to change that, or even if that's what it really is.)
- Theo
Ben Sugerman wrote:
>
> I was running a redhat 6.1 on a Gateway2000 9100 solo laptop with a
> Yamaha OPL3-SAx soundcard, and when I had 5.2 on the box the soundcard
> would not work, but once I put 6.1 on, bink, it configured automatically
> and worked like a charm. Monday I tried to upgrade to 6.2 but the
> installer fatally crashed by boot sector and I had to reinstall from the
> ground up. After 2 days of 6.2 still failing, I switched to Mandrake
> 7.1
>
> that is the history, here is the problem: I can not get the soundcard
> to work at all. The default sounddrake that ships with the 7.1 CD does
> not have a SAx option, and the SA2 card fails. One error I get is that
> the device is busy or missing, and insmod fails. I upgraded to the
> newest versions of harddrake from the linux-mandrake.com website
> (sounddrake-0.8.1-4mdk and associated rpms, plus alsa-2.2.16_0.5.7-9mdk)
> and my soundcard is listed but plays no sound during the "test" phase (I
> do get midi sound however). Reading through the alsa website HOWTO, it
> describes a painful procedure to manually configure the card in the
> conf.modules. pnpdump does not find any PnP cards, isapnp doesn't seem
> to work, and even manually specifying the io, dma etc... in insmod
> doesn't work. I've tried hard-compiling the card into my kernel, no
> sound. I've used sndconfig and tried a lot of combinations, no sound.
> I can get a blurp that sounds like "hello" from sndconfig using a
> Soundblaster card.
>
> so I had a perfectly working and correctly recognized OPL3-SAx under
> redhat 6.1, and with Mandrake 7.1 I seem to have nothing but headaches.
> Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions?
>
> thanks and cheers!
>
> -ben
