No sound Gateway 2000 solo

[sindi]

The legacy driver does not work. Sound works with Win98. dma1=00 dma2=01 irq=5 Addresses 0x220 0x530 x388 0x330 0x370
Not isapnp.
How can I manually insert the modules?
The Gateway is maxed out at 3x64MB RAM.
I want to use it as an internet radio. It has line in and out ports, physical vol control, and low power draw (2.64A).

[sindi]

This is a Gateway2000 Solo 2300 not a Tecra. Sold with 133, 166, or 200MHz CPU and 32MB. $500 extra for an active
matrix display that works at any angle.. The display looks much better at odd angles than that of a 2102 cheap Toshiba.
800x600. A reviewer says 'USB ports. I believe these are the wave of the future'. Very rare on laptops this age.
Phoenix Bios 1985-96. Sold with Win95.

The video was not working usably for a while - shifted and jittery. We figured out yesterday (96F out, needed an indoor
project) that removing the battery helps. The black rxvt displayed blue for a few minutes then stabilized. Not
relevant to a radio.

I ran Puppy 1.07 on a 133Mhz HP Omnibook ($3500 new) where sound only worked with OSS.

Pulp (4.1.2) complains during boot of various things udevd-related. "not a directory"

The CMOS battery is holding the date but not the time.

I copied the dma etc values from Win98. They were also set in BIOS
Advanced, Integrated Peripherals:

They are currently:

I/O Address: 220H-22FH
MPU-401 I/O Address: 330H-333H
Interrupt: IRQ5
DMA Channel: DMA CH0
WAVE 2 DMA: DMA CH1

IRQ 3 and 4 are in use (I forget for what).

I changed Plug & Play O/S to NO and left above values unchanged.

(Serial, Parallel, IR and joystick are disabled).

Either way, it just tells me

Playing WAVE.....
aplay: pcm_write write error: Input/output error.

mplayer appears to play but says Can't open audio device /dev/dsp


In /etc/modprobe.conf alsaconf has added:

alias snd-card-0 snd-opl3sa2
alias sound-slot-0 snd-opl3sa2
options snd-opl3sa2 fm_port=1 midi_port=-1 port=0x370 wss_port=0x530 isapno=0 dma1=3 dma2=5 irq=3

The last three values are different from the 1 0 5 for the Tecra. Should I change mine in BIOS?

If I change them in modprobe.conf to 0 1 5 or 1 0 5 still Input/output error
Or if I change port to 0x220.

I tried modprobe snd-opl3sa2 with all the parameters above (as suggested for a Thinkpad 390 with opl3sa2).
I commented out the lines in modprobe.conf first.

I tried (from another site for opl3sa2 discussing a patch for a bug in the driver):
modprobe snd-opl3sa2 port=0x538 sb_port=0x220 wss_port=0x530 fm_port=0.388 midi_port=0.330 dma1=0 dma2=1 irq=5 isapnp=0
They got a segfault. I got Input/output error.

Someone used this on an AMD K6-2 with success:
modprobe snd-opl3sa2 index=0 id=CARD_0 port=0x370 sb_port=0x220 wss_port=0x530 midi_port=-1 fm_port=-1 irq=5 dma1=0
dma2=1 isapnp=0
Input/output error for me. I omitted the first two parameters and tried again. Same result.

Some people got the sound to work with OSS for about a minute then it freezes. I had no such luck.
If I try to specify any parameters it won't accept them. insmod opl3sa2 without parameters: mplayer says no /dev/dsp
(I tried in another older linux, not Puppy 1.07 - that computer died).

The driver appears to be buggy.

There is also a nm256_audio driver for some Gateway solo laptop sound cards. The owner also tried opl3sa2. No sound.

I will attempt to use Win98 as an internet radio. Someone pointed me at a 26MB mplayer.exe optimized for Pentium III,
and I found wget and mpg123 for Windows (totalling about 6MB). wget -O - http://URL | mpg123
I compiled a 3MB mplayer (sound only) for linux with P54C support.

Regarding the link to a 2010 post, that is by Dgertis (not sindi) and concerns an Acer.
I have not owned any working Acers. My apologies if I did not respond to another suggestion.
Thanks also for the help with gtkpod.
Sindi

[sindi]

I found wget and mpg123 for Win98. Put the exe and any dlls (one is static) in the same directory that you are in.
wget downloads, mpg123 plays mp3s, but mpg123 (version I found for Windows) will not play from STDOUT.

wget -O - http://URL | mpg123 - (I had omitted that -)
Works fine in linux, but in Windows just downloads to STDOUT (disappears).

I can download an mp3 file with wget and then play the downloaded file with mpg123.

I downloaded the p3-optimized Windows mplayer using linux on a newer computer, copied to USB flash drive,
and it is taking forever to copy one 26MB mplayer.exe file to the Gateway. Opera 9.63 does not work
properly at the forum where the link is.

[sindi]

linux mpg123 will also directly play some streaming audio sites such as http://streams.greenhost.nl:8080/oudemuziek
windows mpg123 will not - this may be the problem.

Anyone know of a CLI way to play streaming mp3 in Windows?
It is painfully slow to switch stations with a graphical browser (Opera 9.63 - 10.10 would not install on this hardware).

Is there a CLI vlc for Windows that streams?

[tempestuous]

Yes, I didn't spot sindi's reference to Gateway 2000 (it's only in the subject heading).
And I now see that the original post by Dgertis is 7 years old!

linux mpg123 will also directly play some streaming audio sites such as http://streams.greenhost.nl:8080/oudemuziek

Yes, that's a far more direct and elegant use of mpg123, rather than in combination with wget.

windows mpg123 will not

Works fine for me. I just tested mpg123 now, under Windows XP, using mpg123-1.22.0-static-x86 from -
http://www.mpg123.de/download/win32/?V=1&O=D
This is the command I used -

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mpg123 -@ http://streams.greenhost.nl:8080/oudemuziek

[sindi]

In linux the format is simply mpg123 URL - I just checked that is works on a P3.
The windows version adds -@ before the URL. It still does not stream in Win98.
"Error: invalid playlist from http_open()!"

This is after installing KernelEx - do I need to do anything besides install it?
KernelEx is supposed to make XP programs work in Win98 but Opera 10.10 would not work.

I suspect the hardware. In linux "Can't open /dev/dsp!" so I cannot test mpg123 here.


I finally installed Winamp and can play PLS and M3U from Shoutcast (187 sort-of
classical stations), from a browser (Opera 9.64 works) and then add each station
to a Winamp playlist, and play without the browser. WMP 7 cannot handle most stations.

I turned down the volume with volume dial.

The opl3sa2 purchased OSS driver is said to work correctly. Free one is buggy.
I checked that pnpbios was still off. (The clock battery is still working!).

[tempestuous]

It still does not stream in Win98.
"Error: invalid playlist from http_open()!"

Well I just found an old hard drive with a Windows 98SE installation. Put it into my Pentium4, booted up, and tried to stream with mpg123. It failed, complaining about a missing .dll function.

I had never heard about KernelEx, but it sounds like a clever utility, so installed it, and bam - streaming then works. Screen-grab attached.

Bear in mind the foundations of my results:
- fully functioning Pentium4-3.06, with fully functioning Chaintech AV-710 sound card
- Windows 98 Second Edition
- KernelEx-4.5.2, plus Microsoft Layer for Unicode 1.1.3790.0 (unicows.dll)
- mpg123-1.22.0-static-x86

sindi, I commend you for (re)using old computer hardware, but I must say that anyone using ancient hardware, running ancient operating systems is bound to encounter frequent incompatibilities, problems and frustrations.