Re: sound on 8100
Try the sites:
www.opensound.com
www.alsa-project.org
Peter Firmstone wrote:
> Norman Walsh wrote:
>
> > / Peter Firmstone <q8902929@topaz.cqu.edu.au> was heard to say:
> > | > Has anybody successfully installed any sound on the tecra 8100?
> >
> > Nope, but it's next on my list :-)
> >
> > | > Here is my current problem:
> > | > 1) running anything but oss ; doesn't work;
> > | > 2) running oss with no x & apmd killed ; works great;
> >
> > What drivers?
> >
> > | I suspect your sound card is a Yahama opl3-sa3. Have a look in your
> > | boot
> > | sequence or "$/bin/dmesg | more " to see what your kernel thinks the
> > | sound card
> >
> > I've been trying to build sound support as a module, so I don't see
> > any messages (even when I try to load the modules), but on my 8100,
> > Win98 says there are two sound devices:
> >
> > Yamaha DS-XG Legacy Sound System
> > (IRQ 5, DMA 01, I/O 220-22F, ...)
> >
> > and
> >
> > Yamaha DS-XG PCI Audio CODEC
> > (IRQ 11, I/O FF00-FF3F, ...)
> >
> > | Failing that tell us more about your hardware, maybe send us the output
> > | of
> > | /bin/dmesg.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Be seeing you,
> > norm
> >
> > --
> > Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | 'I have done that,' says my memory. 'I
> > http://nwalsh.com/ | cannot have done that'--says my pride,
> > | and remains adamant. At last--memory
> > | yields.--Nietzsche
>
> Hey Norm,
>
> Here's a lead, I'm afraid the oss sound driver isn't suitable, your going to
> have to track down the driver, I looked in the developement kernel docs
> (that doesn't mean its not in there though) I couldn't see it.
>
> Try emailing these fella's, let us know on the list how you go too.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter Firmstone.
>
> ----------------------------
>
> From: David Pollack <david@da3.net>
> Subject: Re: Yamaha DS-XG card
> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:14:30 -0700
>
> Well, i have DS-XG and downloaded the free sound drivers and got it
> working in like 15 minutes... It automatically detected my sound card
> and started working. Of course i did have to recompile the kernel so
> that it didn't automatically load up a sound driver, but I think that
> you can just edit the /etc/inittab file.
>
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> > Unrot13 this;
> > Reply to: <trar_urfxrgg@vbyvap.arg>
> >
> > Gene Heskett sends Greetings to degackz ;
> >
> > > www.opensound.com (or 4front?? ) Spend $30 and spend 2 hours
> setting
> > > it up and tweaking controls and you'll have sound!! good luck
> >
> > Yes, but how do we know it will work? The freebie has no support
> for
> > this card whatsoever, requiring you to off with an extra tenner to
> get
> > it. The extra tenner isn't the problem but the lack of any demo at
> all
> > spooks me, bad enough I think I'll pitch this card in the trash and
> get
> > a sounblaster or similar.
> >
> > I bought the card based on what the box said it could do, but so far
> my
> > experiments with various drivers have me convinced its the only
> card in
> > the world capable of bringing linux to a halt. The end of the song
> its
> > playing, when you can get it to play one, is always, 100% of the
> time, a
> > locked machine, recoverable only by the reset or power switches.
> >
> > So I'll stop the bleeding, and maybe give it to some windoze user or
>
> > something.
> >
> > > In article <378F72AB.BD1BA5F9@bigfoot.com>,
> > > Steve Maughan <Steve.Maughan@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> > >> Does anyone know how to set up the Yamaha DS-XG sound card under
> > >> linux? I've been playing around in the sound config utility but
> so
> > >> far it hasn't worked... Any ideas would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene
> > --
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