Re: sound on a Tecra 8000

[Joanne Hunter <jrhunter@penguin.menagerie.tf>]

once upon a Sun, 8 Apr 2001 17:04:55 +0200 dreary, while I emailed weak
and weary, quoth Mark Janssen <maniac@markjanssen.homeip.net>:

> On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 11:23:21AM +0200, Philipp Bliedung wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > has anybody got the sound working on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 using the
> > 2.4.2 kernel?
> 
> I've had the same problem, 2.4.1 was the last version I could get the
> opl3sa2 modules working. On 2.4.2 something aparantly broke, but I
could
> still use the modules for 2.4.1 to get sound working in 2.4.2.
> I'm now running 2.4.3 (+int crypto + freeswan) and sound doesn't work
> either.
> 
> I've already sent a mail to one of the opl3sa2 coders, but haven't
gotten
> any response.
> 
> If anyone has any success please let me know too.
> 
> Mark

I ran into the same problem on a Toshiba Satellite 2545CDS. Searching
through the Linux On Laptops pages got me here:

http://home.intcom.de/czap/pages/linuxonlap.html

which, while it's specific to SuSE, told me enough.

The short version:

I used to use this series of insmods to start sound on my system:
insmod soundcore
insmod sound
insmod mpu401
insmod ad1848
insmod opl3sa2 io=0x370 mss_io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
insmod opl3 io=0x388

Now I use this:
insmod soundcore
insmod sound
insmod mpu401
insmod ad1848 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
insmod opl3 io=0x388

Basically, I didn't try to start the opl3sa2 module, and moved all its
options except io to ad1848, changing "mss_io" to "io".

It works perfectly on my system. YMMV. :)


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