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by kwflick

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I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. I have loaded SuSE Professional
version 7.0 on it. Most of the hardware is working except the sound
on the machine. According to Toshiba the model that I have uses a
Yamaha 3D OPL3-SA3 chipset. The drivers for this do not seem to work
at all. What should I use as settings for the chipset? What about
manual setup, what settings do I use for manual setup? I am a
newcomer to Linux/Unix world, so please be as specific as possible as
to what I can dodo to get the sound system up and running.

I tried alsaconf with no luck. It does not find the chipset on my
Yamaha 3D OPL3-SA3 sound card. I also tried lspci -vv from command
line no luck either. The sound card doesn't show up in the lspci
command that I entered.

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by nskharade

hi,
Your problem can be solved by doing the following.
1)Check your sound card settings like DMA No. and IRQ No. This can be done by seeing the seting when ur laptop starts ( where it shows all the devices and their irqs)
Normally most of the sound cards use DMA Channel 220 and IRQ No. 10.
2) Using the utility alsaconf select manual configuration and enter 220 in the DMA field and 10/11 in the IRQ field.
Note: You may not get the full support i.e no surround or four speaker sytem
all thebest

by kwflick

As I said in my post I tried alsaconf with no luck. I tried manually setting the DMA and IRQ (in YAST2)from the settings that I got from BIOS for the card. This did not work either. According to the HOW-TO's this is what is supposed to work, but for this particular laptop none of the conventional settings work. For some reason the OS just doesn't see the card. I may have to edit some file somewhere, or who knows what. But anyway thanks for the help

by nskharade

hi
You can do the following
1) check the DMA No. and the IRQ No. of your sound card. You can see these nos. when you start your laptop.(normally the screen that shows all the devices i.e. lan card, harddisk, display card etc.)Normally DMA no willbe 220 and IRQ no. will be 10/11.
2) using the utility alsaconf select to install sound card manually. You will be asked to enter the DMA channel and the IRQ No. Enter the nos that u get during startup.
Note: U may not be able to use the surround facilty of ur sound card

by nskharade

hi
You can do the following
1) check the DMA No. and the IRQ No. of your sound card. You can see these nos. when you start your laptop.(normally the screen that shows all the devices i.e. lan card, harddisk, display card etc.)Normally DMA no willbe 220 and IRQ no. will be 10/11.
2) using the utility alsaconf select to install sound card manually. You will be asked to enter the DMA channel and the IRQ No. Enter the nos that u get during startup.
Note: U may not be able to use the surround facilty of ur sound card

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