Hi all, i'm newbie here.

I just bought new laptop with specification Toshiba Tecra 8000. And, I want to run Linux Red Hat 9 in my computer.
But, it seems, RH cannot detect my modem and Sound Card.
I have search on Internet, and found that ALSA can emulate my Sound Card Driver.

I have download it, and try to make install in my computer, all task is succesfully complete, but when i want to add the module into kernel using modprobe, there was an error said that there is no sound card in my LapTop.

I try to see at /proc/pci , i cannot find sound card there.

Why ??? And how can i solve this problem ??

Thanks for your answer.

Well, if you'd done a better job searching the internet you also would have found a lot of pages explaing that laptops now use ACPI to control sound and most onboard features. And that redhat has no acpi support. Switch to Suse or Mandrake, or be prepared to recompile a fresh kernel from Kernel.org with acpi patches applied.

Thanks for your advice. I dont know about acpi, because I read in alsa, that his driver support for RH9.
Thanks for everything.

Yes, alsa supports your sound card. But no, it will not work without acpi enabled. Because Acpi controls the IRQ interrupts for your entire system. So, alsa away, but its not gonna turn on till the computer can send the power on command

I'm using Debian and after repartitioning my harddrive and reinstalling I found out that I actually didn't have a backup of my config files, which I thought that I had...
I couldn't find the exact same pages that I used to get sound working the first time I installed, but I found this!
The instructions helped me to get the sound working!

I had the exact same problems on my tecra 8000.

alsa is the solution.

in the alsa-driver folder somewhere, i think under utils/ you'll find a tool called alsaconf. run this. It worked for me...

and I think your computer is too old to be using ACPI

[I'm using Debian and after repartitioning my harddrive and reinstalling I found out that I actually didn't have a backup of my config files, which I thought that I had...
I couldn't find the exact same pages that I used to get sound working the first time I installed, but I found this!
The instructions helped me to get the sound working! ]


ya that little web page fixed my problem. Now I just need to be able to adjust the volume! Does ne1 know how?

I'm glad it worked for you too.

I use aumix which works for me.
Just make sure you adjust the volume on the front of the computer to half-full.
There's a a risk of getting feedback when you close down the screen if the volume is turned up too loud.

Hey! Don't forget to write back here if you manage to get IR working.
I haven't succeeded in that myself.

I have had a Tecra8000 for years and have been using the ad1848.o module under linux-2.4 with the old non-ALSA sound system with this line in /etc/modules:

ad1848 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0

and sound has been working fine under linux-2.4.

I'm trying to get linux-2.6-test6 going using ALSA and the ad1848 driver does not work, nor has my attempts to use some other drivers (like cs4231 and snd-opl3sa2).

I also tried alsaconf and let it "probe legacy ISA sound cards/chips" but that did not find anything.

My BIOS screen shows this info about my sound hardware:

WSS I/O Address = 530H
SBPro I/O Address = 220H
Synthesizer I/O Address = 388H
WSS&SBPro&MPU401 IRQ Level = IRQ5
WSS (Play) DMA = Channel 1
WSS (Rec) & SBPro DMA = Channel 0
Control I/O Address = 538H
MPU 401 (MIDI I/F) = 330H


If you have ALSA drivers working on a Tecra 8000, could you please share lsmod output, dmesg output, and any options that are included when modules are inserted?
And what kernel version are you running?

Thanks.

nix all that kernel reconfig stuff

run sndconfig from the command line and you are done.

I selected Sound Blaster 16 on my 8000 works fine.

using Red Hat 9

this generic sound card setup utility is bundled with both my

Red Hat 9 and SuSE 9 distros

have fun