short version:
If everything else works fine then running a mixer program to increase
the output volume will probably work. These are easy to find and use
(I have always used xmixer). I normally run sound through an
amplifier, like a stereo, if possible (low level on the card, use the
amp to control the volume).
Dhruva> Two possibilities come to mind, -I have the sound cards
Dhruva> configured incorrectly -I need to install one of those
Dhruva> mixer thingies like I had on Windoze
long version:
This relates both to the message cited above and to the "original"
post about a soundcard that does not function after a resume.
I have a Toshiba 2515CDS as well... Here is how I got the soundcard
working.
I have had the laptop for about six months. For the entire time I've
had it I have been unable to configure the sound card properly. The
best I could do was use it as an "8-bit SB"... Sound quality was bad,
etc. I have tried configuring it as a SB Pro and also as a Opl3sa2 (at
someone's suggestion) neither config worked well.
Anyway, when I was new to Linux I licensed the OSSLinux sound drivers
from 4front Technologies and used them to get a MAD16 working (it had
not worked well with the kernel options I had tried). It worked like a
charm.
Last night I downloaded the package again (from
http://www.opensound.com) again and used it for the T2515CDS. I am
running the OSS mixer and the card is a WSS compatible. What success!
Everything is fine now. Well worth $20.00. Autodetect didn't work but
I just did a "manual configuration" using the BIOS settings.
Most software is free. I feel like a wimp paying for it but there you
go.... :) Now I can mess with "freebirth" and "soundtracker" without
the card sounding like a thickness planer in a wood shop. Linux rocks,
everything else works like a charm... I bought the drivers because I
don't expect "kernel hackers" to spend their days making sure my
computer sounds good when I play Quake. I like the fact that a
commercial group has stepped in to fill this gap, even if the project
isn't open source. Also, there is the ALSA project (which I haven't
looked into very deeply---I plan on checking it out soon).
Buying software isn't "cool" right now but it might save you quite a
few soundcard headaches.
As for the card not working after a resume? Could this be solved by
compiling the drivers as modules? I have never had this happen to me,
everything always works fine after a resume.
rongen
>>>>> "Dhruva" == Dhruva Reddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dhruva> I have installed Linux 2.0 on two different Toshiba
Dhruva> laptops (the 435CDS and the 2515CDS). On both of them,
Dhruva> the sound card does not play as loudly as it did on
Dhruva> Winschmoes 95/98.
Dhruva>
Dhruva> Two possibilities come to mind, -I have the sound cards
Dhruva> configured incorrectly -I need to install one of those
Dhruva> mixer thingies like I had on Windoze
Dhruva>
Dhruva> Which is more likely?
Dhruva>
Dhruva> Thanks, Dhruva
Dhruva>
Dhruva>
Dhruva>
