Yamaha OPL3-SA2
I have been running Debian for several years, but have never tried to
get sound running on it. Now that I have been given a faster machine
with more memory and a newer processor (read Pentium-166 with 32MB
instead of 486DX33 with 12MB) I have decided that it is time to take the
plunge.
The new machince has a Yamaha OPL3-SA2 sound card in it.
I tried to install the opl3-sa2 driver using modconf, but it said that
there were errors and that installation failed. I then tried the
mpu-401 driver (which also mentions the OPL3-SA2) and modconf gave me no
errors.
/dev/sndstat exists
cat /dev/sndstat showed no installed devices or drivers.
I rebooted the system and received numerous notes saying:
Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than
/lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep
I checked the timestamps and they were different. Why shoulod this be?
I went back into modconf and removed the mpu-401 driver and installed
the opl3 driver. This also installed the sound.o, soundlow.o and
soundcore.o drivers (as had the mpu-401 driver).
On exiting modconf I verified that the timestamp on both
/etc/modules.conf and /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep were the same and
consistant with the system time.
cat /dev/sndstat resulted in:
----------------------------------------
mareschal:$ sudo cat /dev/sndstat
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux mareschal 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Card config:
Audio devices:
Synth devices:
Midi devices:
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
----------------------------------------------
I rebooted the system again, and, once more got the error:
Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than
/lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep
On checking the timestamps I noted that the timestamp for
/etc/modules.conf was correct, but that the timestamp for
/lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep had been changed and was 4 hours and 57
minutes earlier than it had been. (For a moment I thought that the
timestamp was changed at reboot to GMT, but that would have been 5 hours
LATER, not earlier.)
cat /dev/sndstat still shows the same as above.
What am I doing wrong?
How do I get sound on this system?
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. I would really like to
get realplayer working so that I can receive web broadcasts of the BBC
and other radio stations.
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