Multimedia :: Getting alsa loaded on HD Install...



I have a DSL HD install and would like to get sound working. I have taken EVERY step in the alsadebs.dsl info file EXCEPT the part about typing "dsl alsa" at the boot prompt. Reason here is because I have an HD install so there is no boot prompt. I have tried adding "alsa" to the lilo.conf file but that doesn't appear to do anything. I have tried "modprobe soundcore" but that does nothing. Without getting into what arcane soundboard my laptop has integrated (still trying to find out), how to I cause this "dsl alsa" flag to execute each time upon boot so that I can work from there?

P.S. Single boot system with no fear of reformatting.  :-P
1) If it is included in your append statement inside youe lilo.conf file AND you re-ran the lilo program after saving the conf file to rebuilt your lilo, then your changes are now in effect.

2) You shouldn't have to do this, but I believe that if you do a new hdinstall after booting from cd with the "dsl alsa" command, it will copy the settings into your hdinstall.
I'd install grub instead of lilo, so you don't have to reinstall DSL.

It's a lot faster.
EDIT: Actually I added the "alsa" flag to my lilo.conf append section and added the modprobe statement below to my bootlocal.sh. Thought I'd point out for anyone who happens across this post...

I added the necessary line "modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330" to my append portion in lilo.conf and that did the trick. Was able to run the MyDSL "Install ALSA" script and I do get sound working in "PenguinCommand" but not in "MPlayer." Any ideas on that? Sadly, my soundcard is the Xpress Audio 16bit thing and i have no "rc.d" directory as mentioned here.

Sound functions from only PenguinCommand after boot but MPlayer tells me I have no audio device. Strangely enough, it *did* work once, but I can't figure out what, if anything I did different, since at that point I was manually keying in the modprobe statements as root.

Thus far, the little sidebar app does load the mixer control and does actually adjust volume, so that's a start. Now if I could just enjoy "savetheantelope.mpg" with audio!  :p
Success! The problem was choosing the alsa audio output driver in MPlayer instead of the OSS driver, which works! But lord, how slow my laptop suddenly seems.  :P
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