Laptops :: Sound Problem

I'll try.

As Suggested by cbagger01 I Tried booting with dsl noaudio I had the same hang up when it got to setting up the generic mouse.

Also tried failsafe and DSL got through the boot fine.

So looks like it might not be the sound card causing the problems but maybe the mouse set up. I'll post in the part of the forum I guess.

The failsafe cheatcode is kinda like shorthand for a boot line that looks like this:

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dsl vga=normal atapicd nosound noscsi nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce nodhcp xmodule=vesa

So maybe you can mix-and-match the various bootcodes and see if you can find the one that helps you boot up OK.

Thank for the help.

Again I did a comparison to the Knoppix boot CD and noticed that Knoppix used Generic PS/2 Wheel Mouse.

So looks like it's using a completely different driver

Edit: Updated This Post to fix the 0x370 in use PnP complaint at boot time, now works without complaint.
I have the 256av sound working great on my Gateway Solo 2500 laptop.
Heres the jest of how I did it using the opl3sa2 drivers and stock dsl sound oss I believe it is. I'm going to try to get alsa working next.

setup your bios
your bios may look slightly different i'm not sure, but the values should have equivalents so use this as reference, this is how i got 256av sound working on my gateway solo 2500 so it *should* work for you as well.

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F2 at boot to enter bios:
>Advanced-->Integrated Peripherals:
>On-board stereo sound [Enabled]
my working settings are:
I/O Adress: [280H-28FH] (0x280-0x28F)
MPU-401 I/O Adress: [330H-333H] (0x330-0x333)
INterrupt: [IRQ5]
DMA Channel: [DMA CH0]
WAVE 2 DMA: [DMA CH1]
Joystick: [Enabled]

Your Bios may allow you to define you MSS_IO if this is the case set it to:

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MSS I/O Adress: [ 530H] (0x530)

Setup your Sound

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At the Desktop click the Emelfm icon.
>navigate to /mnt/hda5/opt
>select bootlocal.sh <R>click-->User-->View in Beaver
>add this to your bootlocal.sh:
sudo modprobe opl3sa2 isapnp=0 multiple=0 io=0x370 mpu_io=0x330 mss_io=0x530 irq=5 dma=0 dma2=1
>save
>exit

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