Sound problems

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: Sound problems
started by: count0

Posted by count0 on May 15 2005,15:23

I have DSL running on an old Micron laptop. It didn't detect the sound hardware at all. Is there any resource to start working on it?

Posted by cbagger01 on May 16 2005,17:21

Need the specific Name and model of laptop to do research.

Or some other identifying information (CPU type, CPU speed, etc) if name/model is unknown.

Posted by count0 on May 16 2005,17:28

It is a micron transport xke with a 166mhz processor and 90MB ram.

Posted by cbagger01 on May 16 2005,17:59

Just for the heck of it, try opening an xterm and type:

sudo su
modprobe sb
exit

and see what you get for an answer.

Posted by cbagger01 on May 16 2005,18:05

Or try this advice:

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=4615 >

Posted by count0 on May 16 2005,18:08

I got no output.

Posted by TravMan1963 on Dec. 03 2005,02:04

The advice at

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=4615 >

worked for me - on a Micron XKE 166...

I have sound

! (and working volume and balance! - something I will need to config on my other DSL...(use cursor keys (volume and ff and rew)

This is what worked - in bios
sound was set to 'auto'
changed that to 'user' - wrote down my info:
DMA 1,3
IRQ 5
260-26F
330-331

... I think I did a modprobe sb(?) after that - and received some errors - but still have sound output.

Thanks - and hope this can help someone too..

TM

*update* - after I rebooted - I had to do this again - unsure where this data is stored!

modprobe sb io=0x260 irq=5 mpu_io=0x330 isapnp=0
modprobe op13 io=0x331 (this gives me an error - ismod op13 failed - but the sound works (can play wavs and mp3's anyway)