On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 00:40, W. Guy Thomas wrote: > 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: <snip> </snip> > > > > 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. <snip> </snip> > > 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! This guy here http://www.antlinux.com/Toshiba490XCDT/ got alsa working on a Toshiba 490XCDT which also has the yamaha opl3sa2. Seems to be similar to what you have above, except he has added entries in /etc/conf.modules. Have you done this? Dave
