Toshiba Satellite Pro 480CDT and ALSA

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Toshiba Satellite Pro 480CDT and ALSA
started by: Wizzz

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Posted by Wizzz on Jan. 06 2006,18:00

Hello,

I've got an HD installation of DSL 2.0 on my prehistoric laptop Toshiba 480CDT (P233MMX, 32MB RAM).
Using myDSL utility I've intalled package ALSA and run alsaconf (and/or installation script provided with the packages - I've tried several combinations). The sound card (sb8) was detected properly, but applications freeze when I try to play sound.

I've tried several programs: xmms, play and aplay are good examples. All of them give me no error messages, but they don't play the music. The volume is of course unmuted. For example: when I click on "play" button in xmms, the time counter remains on 00:00, and program freezes (but not hangs up) no matter what output plugin I use (ALSA or OSS)

Things that I've tried to do:
* Checked permissions on /dev/dsp*, /dev/mixer* and so on,
* Manually loaded proper modules,
* Installed alsa-debs (well... that was my mistake ;) )

I wonder if some of you have the similiar ploblem. Have you found any solutions? I know that hardly anyone uses SB8 soundcard in 2006, but the hardware is OK, it works well with Slackware 10.1

TIA for your answer

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Posted by doobit on Jan. 06 2006,18:49

I have the 480CDT, but I'm using the opl3 drivers that are built into DSL, not the Alsa package. TO use those drivers, I had to modprobe the driver with the IO and IRQ information from the BIOS. Here is the thread on that:

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....56;st=0 >

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Posted by Wizzz on Jan. 06 2006,19:55

It works... hmmm.... that's strange

Thanks a lot

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