Laptops :: Make my lappy dance....
hey all,
long story short told... actualy, i am a broken windows user and i'm trying to get involved into linux... i have an old dusty laptop, a p133 40Mb, and DSL is running much better than i thought it would, respect.
But there is a problem i ran into:
the laptop has a opti 82c930 chipset for sound, and the OSS, i think, dose not support it.
what could i do, to make my lappy dance?
i'm really a n00by to linux, and it would realy help if you could could talk to me with some advice.
btw.: plz talk sssslllooowwww, couse i'm " SPECIAL" to linux.. 
thank you in advace...
... and the quest goes no.....
i found out that ALSA, from http://www.alsa-project.org/ does support my sound chips...
so, my steps where:
Download the damn thing
Get it on my lappy
Uncompressed it into a tmp directory
ran the ./configure
result:
somethig like " no C compiler found..."
any sogestions...
Plz..
on my kneez, beg beg....
You'll find that using mydsl packages is much simpler than trying to compile in DSL. Try alsadebs:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....m
Installation instructions:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/talk/node/69
thank you for the advice, hope it'll do....
... i'll test it in a couple of hours, couse right now im at work hitting and kicking some excuvators...
Btw.: i'm really impressed about DSL, it runs quite well on ye ol lappy..
bye
Sure, ALSA should set you up well for sound.
But if, for the sake of size or convenience, you prefer to use DSL's native OSS audio drivers it appears that Opti 82c9xx chips are supported by the OSS mad16 driver.
In the Linux kernel source files you can find some helpful information in /linux/Documentation/sound/Opti. Here's the same file online - www.ibiblio.org/peanut/Kernel-2.6.10/sound/oss/Opti
Configuration will be similar to my explanation of ESS setup here - http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=4615
Just substitute "mad16" where you see "sb", and the "isapnp" option is not valid. Run -
modinfo mad16
to check available options.
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