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mskaarupj · Guest

I have searched for a wiki or FAQ page on sound - is there one? I have a Terratec sound card that uses the snd-fm801 sound driver. Other distros have had varied success setting it up, but it does work with Vector Linux. I get an error when I try to play sounds with snack telling me that it cannot write to /dev/sound/dsp.

lsmod tells me that 'soundcore' is the only sound module loaded. I have tried

modprobe snd-fm801

from the command line, but the module cannot be found. Does anyone have suggestions about what I can do?

Morten

------- output from lsmod: ---------------------------------------------------------
# lsmod
Module Size Used by
soundcore 9536 0
lp 11912 0
parport_pc 27812 1
parport 35424 2 lp,parport_pc
psmouse 27064 0
sr_mod 18240 0
scsi_mod 133864 1 sr_mod
ide_cd 39904 0
cdrom 38560 2 sr_mod,ide_cd
unionfs 192660 1
nls_iso8859_1 3952 1
nls_cp437 5616 1
reiserfs 227728 1
uhci_hcd 31832 0
usbcore 115752 2 uhci_hcd
8139too 25104 0
mii 4656 1 8139too
crc32 4112 1 8139too
#

Ian · Posted: Sat 21 May 2005, 12:01 Post subject:

have a look in /lib/modules to see if your module is there, if not you will have to install it and run insmod again.

I'm not sure if you can write to /lib/modules but if you read the Puppy main pages there is info there that should help.

BarryK · Posted: Sat 21 May 2005, 19:32 Post subject:

Any module name starting with "snd-" is an Alsa sound driver, and Puppy does not yet support Alsa, only OSS.

You can see all the OSS driver modules in /lib/modules/2.6/sound/oss/
-- maybe one of those will work?

danleff · Joined: 08 May 2005 Posts: 294 Location: Albany, NY

Try one of these;

AD1816 or
AD1848

mskaarupj · Guest

Thanks for the help - Niether "ad1816" nor "ad1848" worked, but the "forte" driver (included on the Puppy CD) works without problems.

Morten

mskaarupj · Guest

Just to be precise: when I say it works, it is because gxine produces sound. Snack still has the same problem, but this doesn't bother me seeing as gxine can do everything that Snack can.

Morten

BarryK · Posted: Sat 28 May 2005, 10:37 Post subject:

mskaruupj,
can you let me know the sound chip numbers?
Start -> Control panel -> hardware probe -> Modules

...you'll see the two numbers, they look like 2345:5678