I have a:

Digital HiNote VP (Apparently Model TS30G)

How do I find out what sound card I have?

I tried searching at google for combinations of keywords: digital hinote vp sound card drivers ts30g

but really only received adverts with not enough information.

# alsaconf

doesn't detect any sound cards, even after probing for legacy cards

$ lspci

returns:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430MX - 82437MX Mob. System Ctrlr (MTSC) & 82438MX Data Path (MTDP) (rev 02)
00:01.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 430MX - 82371MX Mobile PCI I/O IDE Xcelerator (MPIIX) (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2090 [MagicGraph 128V] (rev 01)
00:04.0 PCMCIA bridge: Cirrus Logic CL 6729 (rev ee)

The weird thing is, under VectorLinux, sndconfig / SB16 worked, but I don't like VL. I can't run sndconfig under Slackware so I'm kind of stuck.

# sndconfig

returns:

soundcore.o was not found in the module search path

# modprobe snd-sb16

Returns can't locate module

# insmod snd-sb16

returns unresolved symbol errors

Any help would be appreciated!

Hi SBing,

This took a bit of finding,
Google was crap so I hit Altavista and searched for "Digital HiNote TS30G" the first hit had this,,

" I`m using a Digital HiNote VP562 (Model TS30G)" so off to the Digital site i went
(within Compaq, within HP)

Here is the support page for the 500 series of Digital notebooks:

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/legacysupp..._abstract.html

Here is the spec page for the above models:

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/legacysupp...500_specs.html

I hope this helps you out,,,,
Im sorry about the long winded post but I wanted you to see where I got VP562 from.

PS try running alsaconf under slackware instead of sndconfig.


Regards
Scott

For shits and giggles (and because this has worked twice before, albeit not on any ancient laptops):

Boot Knoppix and see if it autodetects your sound card.

Brian

@The Bad Penny,

Thank you so much! I really appreciate that - now I know to treat it like a SB16.

However, alsaconf doesn't detect the legacy card - I'll fiddle with it a bit more and see if it works, I'll report back later.

Thanks again for the effort you went to!

@zensufi

Good idea - I have a PCMCIA cdrom, so I'll have to find a boot floppy first that will let me boot of the CDROM, I'll try that after I've run out of possibilities with Slackware.

Cheers!

You are very welcome SBing,

Im just glad I could help.

Good luck
Scott

Okay, I put together a vector installation by using tomsrtbt, and bzip2' the two bz2 files :)

I ran sndconfig, selected "Sound Blaster" (SB Pro, SB16 etc didn't work) with these settings:

I/O Port: 0x220
IRQ: 5 -------------------- (IRQ: 3 played a truncated sample - I guess something to do with interrupts)

The output of sndconfig (post screen) is:

Soundblaster audio driver Copyright...
sb: No ISAPnP cards found...
SB 3.01 detected OK (220)
ESS chip ES1688 detected
<ESS ES1688 AudioDrive (rev 11) (3.01)> at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1
YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright...
<Yamaha OPL3> at 0x388

# lsmod

sb ---------------0
sb_lib ---------- 0 ----- [sb]
uart401 -------- 0 ---- [sb_lib]
sound ---------- 0 ---- [sb _lib uart401]
soundcore ---- 4 ---- [sb_lib sound]

Now I guess I have to get this to work under Slackware, taking a look at modules.conf:

post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2
alias sound-slot-0 sb
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 | | :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 | | :

options sound dmabuf=1
alias synth0 opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1

I guess I can just copy across this to a Slackware modules.conf and hopefully have sound! :)

Please ignore any typos! A lot of the text here is copied by hand and I'm sleepy :P!

Cheers

Steve

Well, I installed Slack10 on the laptop
Wow! I've just realised how bad laptop speakers are!!

Cheers,

Steve