alsa for tecra8100

alsa for tecra8100

[Raul A. Gallegos]

Hi gang.  I'm trying to get the alsa to work for the Toshiba tecra8100
which uses the yamaha opl3 built-in sound driver.  My question  is if
anyone is using this can you send my a copy of your /etc/modules.conf as
I seem to not be albe to get this to work.  Also, I've searched the net
for someone else who has configured this and can't find any but in case
anyone knows of a web site that has this information I'd appreciate
this.

Thanks.
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Re: alsa for tecra8100

[Gene Collins]

Hi Raul.  I'm using a Toshiba Satalite cdt4210, and it has an opl3sax
chip in it.  The chip works fine under Windows, but I haven't been able
to get it to work with the Alsa drivers.  My klooge was to use the Alsa
cs4231 driver, which at least lets me play sounds, but the recording
quality stinks.  It also doesn't sound very good using Speak freely on
the reflecter.  The oss drivers in the 2.2 kernels were a bit better,
they at least recognized the chip properly, but didn't give proper
control over the master volume.  You might try the Alsa 0.9beta drivers,
and see if you have better results.  No promises though.

Gene Collins

>Hi gang.  I'm trying to get the alsa to work for the Toshiba tecra8100
>which uses the yamaha opl3 built-in sound driver.  My question  is if
>anyone is using this can you send my a copy of your /etc/modules.conf as
>I seem to not be albe to get this to work.  Also, I've searched the net
>for someone else who has configured this and can't find any but in case
>anyone knows of a web site that has this information I'd appreciate
>this.
>
>Thanks.
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>For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals..  Then
>something happened, which unleashed the power of our imagination...
>We learned to talk...  Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
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Re: alsa for tecra8100

[Raul A . Gallegos]

Hi guys.  Well I set the PCM to 84% unmute and the Wave to 100% unmute.
I copied the windows logon sound and called it win.wav and typed 'aplay
win.wav' and hear a little crackling as the sound presumibly starts then
as the sounds finishes the crackling stops.  So something is there.  I
have a feeling it still has to do with my volume settings but I'm not
completely sure any more.  I'm using the alsa 0.9.0beta9 version.  They
installeed fine and the sound driver is loading fine I checked this with
lsmod.

Re: alsa for tecra8100

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
   Did you try the snd-card-ymfpci driver? As I recall the system in the Tecra 8100 is a yamaha DSXG (YMF7XX) chipset, exactly the chipset I've got in my satellite pro 4340.


On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:56:17AM -0600, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
> Hi gang.  I'm trying to get the alsa to work for the Toshiba tecra8100
> which uses the yamaha opl3 built-in sound driver.  My question  is if
> anyone is using this can you send my a copy of your /etc/modules.conf as
> I seem to not be albe to get this to work.  Also, I've searched the net
> for someone else who has configured this and can't find any but in case
> anyone knows of a web site that has this information I'd appreciate
> this.

Re: alsa for tecra8100

[Raul A . Gallegos]

Thanks to everyone who responded.  Yes the driver below is the one that
is correct for this laptop.  Everythong seems to load fine per lsmod and
the output of /etc/rc.d/alsa start

Now if I try to play for example the windows_logon.wav file I get a high
piercing yet quiet tone from the speakers.

I type 'aplay win.wav' and get the following output.

root@gallegos:/usr/bin# aplay /tmp/win.wav
Playing WAVE '/tmp/win.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050
Hz, Stereo

This piercing sound is what I'm guessing to be my mixer settings to not
be set correctly even though I've tried:
amixer sset Master 100 unmute
amixer sset pcm 100 unmute
amixer sset Wave 100 unmute

None of those seems to help though.

I'm definately making progress but not quite there yet.  The asound.conf
file from speakup's ftp site is outdated with these drivers it seems so
I have not used it.

jacobs@surferie.net said the following on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:31:54PM -0500:
> Hi
>    Did you try the snd-card-ymfpci driver? As I recall the system in the Tecra 8100 is a yamaha DSXG (YMF7XX) chipset, exactly the chipset I've got in my satellite pro 4340.
> 
> 
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Re: alsa for tecra8100

[Jacob Schmude]

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Hi
   Have you tried any other players, like sox's play or playing an MP3 or vorbis file? I've consistantly had trouble with aplay with certain wav files for some reason. And my experiences with aplay aren't limited to this card. Also, lower your wave control to around 13%, keep the master and pcm at 100%, otherwise you'll get super distortion. Alternative, you can lower your master to about 88%, the PCM to about 81%, and keep the wave at 100%. The disadvantage to lowering your master and pcm as that if your card has a 3D function (mine does), and you want to use it, you'll get a lot of distortion. Thus I recommend the first mixer settings which worked fine for me. Of course you can fine-toon them even more.

On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 02:52:01PM -0600, Raul A . Gallegos wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who responded.  Yes the driver below is the one that
> is correct for this laptop.  Everythong seems to load fine per lsmod and
> the output of /etc/rc.d/alsa start
> 
> Now if I try to play for example the windows_logon.wav file I get a high
> piercing yet quiet tone from the speakers.
> 
> I type 'aplay win.wav' and get the following output.
> 
> root@gallegos:/usr/bin# aplay /tmp/win.wav
> Playing WAVE '/tmp/win.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050
> Hz, Stereo
> 
> This piercing sound is what I'm guessing to be my mixer settings to not
> be set correctly even though I've tried:
> amixer sset Master 100 unmute
> amixer sset pcm 100 unmute
> amixer sset Wave 100 unmute

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Re: alsa for tecra8100

[Shaun Oliver]

ok raul,,
instead of setting your pcm at 100%,
try setting it to 84% no higher.
the reason is as far as I understand it, the pcm is kind of like a drive 
or gain control and too much gain causes distortion.
hth
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001,
Raul A . Gallegos wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who responded.  Yes the driver below is the one that
> is correct for this laptop.  Everythong seems to load fine per lsmod and
> the output of /etc/rc.d/alsa start
> 
> Now if I try to play for example the windows_logon.wav file I get a high
> piercing yet quiet tone from the speakers.
> 
> I type 'aplay win.wav' and get the following output.
> 
> root@gallegos:/usr/bin# aplay /tmp/win.wav
> Playing WAVE '/tmp/win.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050
> Hz, Stereo
> 
> This piercing sound is what I'm guessing to be my mixer settings to not
> be set correctly even though I've tried:
> amixer sset Master 100 unmute
> amixer sset pcm 100 unmute
> amixer sset Wave 100 unmute
> 
> None of those seems to help though.
> 
> I'm definately making progress but not quite there yet.  The asound.conf
> file from speakup's ftp site is outdated with these drivers it seems so
> I have not used it.
> 
> jacobs@surferie.net said the following on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:31:54PM -0500:
> > Hi
> >    Did you try the snd-card-ymfpci driver? As I recall the system in the Tecra 8100 is a yamaha DSXG (YMF7XX) chipset, exactly the chipset I've got in my satellite pro 4340.
> > 
> > 
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Re: alsa for tecra8100

[Kirk Wood]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> instead of setting your pcm at 100%,
> try setting it to 84% no higher.

Great advice. Thinking of it, my card does nothing but make obnoxious
noise at full volume. There is a heavy reliance on external
amplification. If memory serves correct, there is an external setting for
the volume on that computer as well. If you need more volume, try
adjusting there.

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real player and gold pass

[randy turner]

hi all,
well it appears that we can't use gold pass for real player with linux
from what i have found out the down load version of real player 
that works with there gold pass service has to have
a serial number in there program,
well because we use linux that cuts us out!
i had to unsubscrive
from there gold pass service today because it just would not work
it just has to have there program using there serial number!

thanks to all
randy

Re: real player and gold pass

[Kirk Wood]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, randy turner wrote:
> that works with there gold pass service has to have
> a serial number in there program,
> well because we use linux that cuts us out!

Sorry, this doesn't follow. Just because you use linux doesn't mean they
couldn't put a serial number in there. They may have not bothered with
this functionality. I would suggest that if you are interested, you
contact Real Networks and express that interest. They exist for one
reason: to make money. If the cost of modification of the linux client
will pay off with enough subscribers they will probably follow that money.

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"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missle at
a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."
	- President George Bush

Re: real player and gold pass

[randy turner]

hi, kirk,

i will write them conserning linux soon.
i really got the feeling that the person wthat i was talking with on the
phone didn't care if it worked or not.
when i told them that it did not work they didn't even ask why.
but maybe if i write a message it will get to the right people.
thanks
randy




On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Kirk Wood wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, randy turner wrote:
> > that works with there gold pass service has to have
> > a serial number in there program,
> > well because we use linux that cuts us out!
> 
> Sorry, this doesn't follow. Just because you use linux doesn't mean they
> couldn't put a serial number in there. They may have not bothered with
> this functionality. I would suggest that if you are interested, you
> contact Real Networks and express that interest. They exist for one
> reason: to make money. If the cost of modification of the linux client
> will pay off with enough subscribers they will probably follow that money.
> 
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net
> 
> "When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missle at
> a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."
> 	- President George Bush
> 
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