my toshiba laptop has the yamaha opl3-sa3 sound card in it but for the life of me i have about 0 idea how to get it configured i'm in a world of complete lostness right now on this thig I dumped a run off the cd auto recognize everything in the world knoppix (debian) install on it to see if i could get it configured with their config prog and tried every single adress with every single possible setting to no avail.. i've always had a killer time with sound in linux and it just complicates things that its a laptop now but if any one could offer any advice or suggestions i'd be glad to hear


thanks

the b0atman

here is more info on my laptop

lcpci -v



00:00.0 Host bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems 601 (rev a0)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Chips and Technologies F65555 HiQVPro (rev c6) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: stepping, medium devsel
Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=256K]

00:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 02) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at fcfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:11.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port (rev 21)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at ffe0 [size=32]

00:13.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 20)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 0
Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=14, subordinate=14, sec-latency=0
Memory window 0: 10400000-107ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 10800000-10bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:13.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 20)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 0
Memory at 10001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=15, subordinate=15, sec-latency=0
Memory window 0: 10c00000-10fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 11000000-113ff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

14:00.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DFE-690TXD CardBus PC Card (rev 10)
Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DFE-690TXD CardBus PC Card
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
I/O ports at 4000 [size=256]
Memory at 10800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2



lsmod


Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1 2844 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 4348 1 (autoclean)
lvm-mod 46368 0 (autoclean)
soundcore 3396 0 (autoclean)
autofs4 8724 0 (unused)
af_packet 13480 0 (unused)
serial 51908 0
usb-ohci 18088 0 (unused)
usbcore 57120 1 [usb-ohci]
8139too 17096 0 (unused)
mii 2112 0 [8139too]
ds 6472 2
yenta_socket 8704 2
pcmcia_core 37600 0 [ds yenta_socket]
apm 9644 1
rtc 6908 0


dmesg

Linux version 2.4.20-xfs (knoppix@Knoppix) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Die Dez 10 20:07:25 CET 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000002020000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000002020000 - 0000000002040000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fef80000 - 00000000ff000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe0000 - 00000000fffe6e00 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe6e00 - 00000000fffe7000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe7000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
32MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 8224
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 4128 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301 hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi apm=power-off nomce
ide_setup: hda=scsi
ide_setup: hdb=scsi
ide_setup: hdc=scsi
ide_setup: hdd=scsi
ide_setup: hde=scsi
ide_setup: hdf=scsi
ide_setup: hdg=scsi
ide_setup: hdh=scsi
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 233.292 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 465.30 BogoMIPS
Memory: 29816k/32896k available (1266k kernel code, 2692k reserved, 502k data, 124k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
CPU: After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: none
CPU: After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel Mobile Pentium MMX stepping 01
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 159.61 usecs.
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
All processors have done init_idle
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd503, last bus=21
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xfd000000, mapped to 0xc300d000, size 2048k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=0
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:96e0
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hda: TOSHIBA MK4006MAV, ATA DISK drive
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1602B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 8007552 sectors (4100 MB), CHS=993/128/63
ide-cd: passing drive hdc to ide-scsi emulation.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is an 8272A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Cronyx Ltd, Synchronous PPP and CISCO HDLC (c) 1994
Linux port (c) 1998 Building Number Three Ltd & Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak.
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-1602B Rev: 1032
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 20x/20x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 124k freed
Adding Swap: 294296k swap-space (priority -1)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x02 (Driver version 1.16)
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:13.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 00:13.1. Please try using pci=biosirq.
Yenta IRQ list 0eb8, PCI irq0
Socket status: 30000020
Yenta IRQ list 0eb8, PCI irq0
Socket status: 30000007
cs: cb_alloc(bus 20): vendor 0x1186, device 0x1340
PCI: Enabling device 14:00.0 (0000 -> 0003)
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 14:00.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 14:00.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 14:00.0 to 64
eth0: D-Link DFE-690TXD (RealTek RTL8139) at 0xc3258000, 00:40:05:02:40:e9, IRQ 0
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc326f000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:0b.0, NEC Corporation USB
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0820-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x080f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 20:19:53 Dec 10 2002
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002) module loaded
ide1: unexpected interrupt, status=0x51, count=1


any info on getting this soundcard issue resolved would be great

thanks

the b0atman

Install alsa drivers... done. if you dont know where to get them ask google.

PS, if it dont work still. Recompile the kernel to include acpi features, and or, switch to Suse linux.