Make my lappy dance....
Forum: Laptops
Topic: Make my lappy dance....
started by: blazzy
Posted by blazzy on May 22 2005,19:38
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...
Posted by blazzy on May 22 2005,20:12
... 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....
Posted by mikshaw on May 23 2005,02:12
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 >
Posted by blazzy on May 23 2005,05:57
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
Posted by tempestuous on May 24 2005,05:50
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.
Posted by blazzy on May 24 2005,08:02
Hey , thanks for that advice, couse, ALSA kindda dosent work for me...god dosn't like me....what the helll...Ill try this one today...
Alsa dosent seem to install propretly with my DSL.
thx.
Posted by cbagger01 on May 24 2005,16:14
Make sure you follow the instructions in the alsadebs.info file.They are very specific and require other mydsl extensions and a boot code.