On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 21:16, W. Guy Thomas wrote: > Ok, I'm very close finally to getting ALSA working on this laptop > (Toshiba 330CDT) with a standard Yamaha opl3sa2 card. > > I have loaded the libs, the utils, the driver, the kernel has been > upgraded and soundcore is loaded. Everything is good until I attempt to > modprobe the actual device. > > I get this: > > > > [root@Toshi speaker-test]# /sbin/modprobe snd-card-opl3sa2 > > FATAL: Module snd_card_opl3sa2 not found. > > This is my lsmod, it appears to me that things are loaded > properly and I have also already run alsaconf which tries to detect > the card. lsmod here: > > Module Size Used by > snd_opl3_lib 11776 0 > snd_hwdep 10400 1 snd_opl3_lib > snd_cs4231_lib 33412 0 > snd_mpu401_uart 9344 0 > snd_rawmidi 26432 1 snd_mpu401_uart > snd_seq_device 8328 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi > snd_pcm 93092 1 snd_cs4231_lib > snd_timer 30468 3 snd_opl3_lib,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm > snd 53732 8 snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer > soundcore 7713 1 snd > snd_page_alloc 9864 2 snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm > md5 3905 1 > ipv6 219268 8 > lp 9773 0 > autofs 17217 0 > orinoco_cs 7625 1 > orinoco 46285 1 orinoco_cs > hermes 6593 2 orinoco_cs,orinoco > ds 12997 5 orinoco_cs > i82365 20129 1 > pcmcia_core 50953 3 orinoco_cs,ds,i82365 > ohci1394 31577 0 > ieee1394 285205 1 ohci1394 > floppy 54513 0 > sg 29153 0 > scsi_mod 106001 1 sg > parport_pc 21249 0 > parport 36361 2 lp,parport_pc > toshiba_acpi 5085 0 > button 4825 0 > battery 7373 0 > asus_acpi 9305 0 > ac 3532 0 > ext3 96681 2 > jbd 66393 1 ext3 > [root@Toshi speaker-test]# > > I believe I am very close to finally getting this done. > I would very much appreciate any tips from you guys. > Thanks in advance always, > > =G Well, I am about to finally give up completely on ALSA. I know I have followed many links, googled for weeks, tried many varieties of solutions. I see that this onboard yamaha opl3sa *is* supported and have tried so many possibilities that my eyes are purple. It appears to me that there are just too many things I still don't know about how linux makes calls from say modules.conf which has inserted at the end of it "yeah, also call modules.conf.init"...and I get lost trying to keep track of it all. I understand very well the need for modularization to keep bug tracking minimal, but for the end user it becomes very tiresome. I did get samba printing working very nicely to the rest of my windows wireless network in the house. And gnome-meeting with my webcam is looking promising (I will use this for my wife to talk to friends and family in Mexico). The wireless is completely *flawless* with nary a dropped packet, very unlike my experience with both W2k and XP. But with no sound, there just isn't much joy. When I had the previous 2.4 kernel up, OSS worked, but many other things needed to be fixed that led me to the 2.6.8 kernel. Thus, all the things I fixed by upgrading the kernel are great now, but I left sound behind. If anyone has one clear and concise personal experience with ALSA and specifically the OPL3SA2 Yamaha please let me know. I have googled on it more than you will ever do in a lifetime. Happy with my victories. Sad about this last one. And so important. Take care! =G mrguytx at austin dot rr dot com
