Hey everyone, I sent this about 4 days ago, and got no response. Can someone check into it please? Thanks! Ian
Ian K wrote:
My answers are *bold* for easy reading. Thanks again! Ian
Hey Holly, sorry about the lack of information.
I got the error:
Yamaha OPL3-SA soundcard not found or device busy
It was repeated twice throughout the dmesg at the times when I did the modprobes.
I modprobed the following:
(I wont include the .ko or path)
No, you don't modprobe using the .ko or path anyway, so no need to include it.
snd-mpu401-uart snd-opl3-synth snd-opl3-lib snd-rawmidi snd-hwdep snd-seq-instr snd-seq-midi-emul snd-ainstr-fm snd-seq-midi snd-opl3sa2 <-That gives me the DMESG error
And what does lsmod say at this point: is the module loaded (meaning that it is in fact "busy"), or not (meaning that it is in fact "not found")? Well, true, this is not a strict test, as the module might have been loaded by the kernel, in which case it does not seem to appear in an lsmod (annoying as it is), but it is someplace to start.
*Well, when I go Modprobe snd-opl3sa2 I get this lovely output:
FATAL: Error insetring snd_opl3sa2 (/lib/modules/2.6.10-rc3-love1/kernel/sound/isa/snd-opl3sa2.ko): No such device
(IN DMESG): Yamaha OPL3-SA soundcard not found or device busy.
The other modprobes seem to have survived a restart, and seem to have loaded. The snd-opl3sa2 is not on the list.
However, I will still put the list in this mail:
Module Size Used By
snd_opl3_lib 10208 0
snd-hwdep 9060 1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_cs4231_lib 25696 0
snd_mpu401_uart 7456 0
snd_rawmidi 24288 1 snd_mpu401_uart
*
Why are you modprobing these modules manually anyway? Why are they not being loaded by the kernel, alsasound, or /etc/modules.d.autoload/kernel-2.6?
*I did this for manual testing before autoloading.*
And what precisely is your problem with sound-- does it not work, and in what respect does it not work? It is quite easy with Gentoo to get over-involved with errors that do not actually affect one's use of the machine (fixing "errors" for the sake of fixing errors, rather than just getting on with what you wanted to do. It's one of the few "downsides" to Gentoo ;-) ).
*Well, no program can detect the sound card, and obviously, I cant hear anything when playing media/music files.*
My laptop is the ancient Toshiba Satellite Pro 445CDX.
I am (trying) using ALSA under KDE 3.3.2
I have ISA support selected in the kernel options, although I dont know where ISAPNP is located.
ISA Plug and Play support is located in Device Drivers=>Plug and Play Support.
*I found it, and compiled into the kernel, with no effect.*
I guess thats it for now... Oh yes, inside the sound system of the control center, (KDE) when you select the hardware tab, what audio device should i use? Autodetect?
That depends. I didn't use KDE that much (before I was forced to by SuSE), but when I did, I usually found the Autodetect to suc... be less than optimal for the onboard sound chip I was using at that time (VIA 8233). Changing the sound server to use ALSA sometimes worked, but the "surest bet" was to use OSS or Threaded OSS (because I had ALSA OSS emulation enabled).
*Thanks!*
HTH, Holly
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