Re: cannot get sound on Toshiba laptop

[Tom Schutter <t.schutter@att.net>]

On 2002-08-28 07:02 Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 August 2002 05:19 am, Tom Schutter wrote:
> > I have a Toshiba laptop that I cannot get the sound working on.
> > No error messages, but nothing comes out of the speaker.
> >
> > Here are the particulars:
> >    Toshiba Satellite, model 2805-S301
> >    Yamaha YMF754B-R sound card
> >    Debian 3.0r0 woody
> >    2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel
> >
> > # lsmod
> > Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
> > ymfpci                 40800   1
> > ac97_codec              9568   0  [ymfpci]
> > soundcore               3236   2  [ymfpci]
> > eepro100               17264   1
> > nls_iso8859-1           2880   0  (autoclean)
> > nls_cp437               4384   0  (autoclean)
> > ds                      6624   2
> > i82365                 22416   2
> > pcmcia_core            41408   0  [ds i82365]
> > apm                     9148   2  (autoclean)
> > keybdev                 1664   0  (unused)
> > usbkbd                  2848   0  (unused)
> > input                   3072   0  [keybdev usbkbd]
> > usb-uhci               20708   0  (unused)
> > usbcore                48032   0  [usbkbd usb-uhci]
> >
> > # ls -l /dev/dsp
> > crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 Mar 14 14:51 /dev/dsp
> >
> > I am in the audio group.
> > Settings/Multimedia/Sound, Sound Events tab, Play button gives
> > no sound.
> >
> > ALSA is not installed, but I am not sure exactly which packages
> > to install.  Do I need alsa-modules-2.4.x?  All I see are
> > alsa-modules-2.4.16-*, nothing for 2.4.18.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> I have the same Toshiba (2805-S201, actually). I addition to the
> modules you
> list I have sound and uart401.

Installing the sound and uart401 modules and rebooting did not solve
the problem.

> Can you play sound as root? If so, it's a permissions problem and not
> a
> module issue.  I shouldn't need to install ALSA.
>
> Dennis Kibbe

I cannot play sound as root.  A related question is what is the easiest
way to test sound from the command line?

What version of the kernel are you running?

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Tom Schutter
t.schutter@att.net