Laptops :: How I got laptop sound working in DSL

Broken sound seems to bit a bit of a theme with DSL. Mine was broken too, here's how I fixed it.

The main idea is to install sndconfig and then run that to configure your sound - I think it was about an extra 10-15megs of downloads by the time I was done.

so first get dpkg working with (stole this from cbaggers script, thx for that)
sudo dpkg-restore

then install synaptic ( not strictly necessary I think)
sudo apt-get install synaptic

Then install sndconfig with synaptic (a dpkg gui frontend); pretty straight forward

run sndconfig to get the settings for your sound card - you should know your chip set before you run this

sndconfig

finally run update-modules to "set" the files that sndconfig generates

sudo update-modules

Worked for me and my Toshiba 320cdt , your mileage may vary

Thanks man, that worked for me too

Compaq Armada 7370DMT

Sound modules do not load on startup. Checked with command lsmod. Since I had read elsewhere that SoundBlaster modules might be used on this laptop I tried modprobe to see.

sudo modprobe sb

Checked again with lsmod and saw that it did load the sb modules.

xmms now works fine.

Excellent! I forgot all about sndconfig. I gave it a shot on these old Sony VAIO Pentium 200 machines and it found the Yamaha OPL3 hardware with a little prodding. Thanks!

I installed sndconfig, tried a few settings (my Compaq Armada 1592DT reportedly has an ESS 1678 chip, which isn't listed), didn't get any to work. Now when I run sndconfig and change settings, it says "Error writing to file"! Any ideas which file this is, how to fix it, or possibly even which settings would (should) work on my machine?

Thanks

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