Hi, all, I d/l, burned to CD, and installed DSL 2.1 to HD last night. I followed the steps for a Debian type install from the Getting Started page, including the steps for GNU and Debian compatability (upgrading to GNU utils, enabling Apt, installing dsl-dpkg.dsl). Not bad!!!! One prob I'm having, though, is that I can't get dsl to recognise my sound card (Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16). The comp accepts it; I know this because it works fine when running win98. I tried installing Alsa from my dsl, but after d/l, it gave a checksum error and quit. There has to be some type of sound program installed, because I have dmix on my desktop. Can I just use synaptic to get alsa? And, how can I get the system to recognise my sound card?
Thanks,
Steve
BTW - the system dsl's on is: Pentium S (120mHz), 80meg RAM, 1.5gb HD, cd-rom, floppy. Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 Sound card, NIC. Not exactly flash, but dsl's doing the job on it! Have you tried running sudo modprobe sb from an xterminal? That works sometimes for soundblaster cards. You might need to add you IRQ and DMA as well:
EDIT - I was just looking at DSL System Stats/dmesg, and it says that no ISA pnp cards were detected. My Sound Blaster 16 is an ISA card. However, toward the end, it says:
Soundblaster audio driver.... sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones SB: 4.13 detected OK (220)
So, it would seem that maybe the card is installed, but I just can't get it to work. Too bad there isn't some kind of soundcard config tool in the control panel...
EDIT - Ok, I'm an idiot. The <su modprobe sb> did work; now, the prob is that every time I start the comp cold, or reboot it, I have to do the modprobe again, to get my sound back. Is there any way I can force the comp to do the modprobe during boot? That way, when the comp finishes booting, the sound will already be set up and I won't have to do it manually.
Thanks guys,
SteveHi, i went through the same struggles mor or less. I ended up putting the modprobe configuration string in /opt/bootlocal.sh And you have to add /opt/bootlocal.sh in $HOME/.filetool.lst. If you want some sound playerto start automatically at X startup, put xmms & for example in $HOME/.xinitrc (before the exec instructions at the end).
Sorry if that is obvious to you, it was not for me. One thing is that dmix starts at half scale and i don't know how to save its settings. No relevant doc found anywhere.hello, I had problems with the sound in my laptop compaq armada 1500c and try the following line:
