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Xubuntu: Configure laptop sound card?
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| A few weeks ago I Installed Xubuntu on a laptop drive from a desktop via
the USB port. I then ported the drive to my Omnibook 800ct laptop and
was able to boot with all but the sound card configured. This is my
first try at a Debian distro so some of the tools I was used to in my
Mandrake experience don't exist. So far I haven't figured out the sound
card.
Xubuntu, lspci, etc., does not "see" the sound card at all. Xmms
reports, naturally, the sound card is misconfigured. This laptop has an
on-board ES1888 type chip that was configured as an SB card in a
previous Mandrake install. The relevant lines for my card in
/etc/modules.conf were:
# Alsa portion
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-es1688
options snd-card-es1688 snd_port=0x220 snd_dma8_size=32 snd_dma8=1 snd_irq=5
# OSS portion
alias snd-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
What are the equivalent settings in Xubuntu?
Also, would it have been better, for configuration sake, to attempt an
install driectly from the hard drive with it in the OB800, rather than
on a foreign machine? In my case I did it the quick and dirty way
because this OB800 does not have a CDrom and there's no way to boot from
anything other than the external floppy or the installed hd because the
BIOS hasn't been updated in 8 years or so. In fact it's not even
supposed to be able to use a drive bigger than 8gb.
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| gregor herrmann 2007-01-18, 7:14 pm |
| On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:51:35 -0500, geoff wrote:
> Xubuntu, lspci, etc., does not "see" the sound card at all.
Have you already tried to run alsaconf (as root)?
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| gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:51:35 -0500, geoff wrote:
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> Have you already tried to run alsaconf (as root)?
alsaconf is not in my distro I guess. I tried to apt-get alsaconf and it
is an unknown package. Any ideas?
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| Tim Wescott 2007-01-24, 1:12 pm |
| geoff wrote:
> gregor herrmann wrote:
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> alsaconf is not in my distro I guess. I tried to apt-get alsaconf and it
> is an unknown package. Any ideas?
Having just now learned it I'm an Instant Expert: the package you want is
alsa-utils. I have no idea if it's the only one. At any rate, I just
installed alsa-utils and everything that was recommended until no more
packages were recommended. Then I ran alsaconf, answered the questions as
close to correctly as I could manage -- and I have sound!
--
Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
www.wescottdesign.com
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| Tim Wescott wrote:
> geoff wrote:
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> Having just now learned it I'm an Instant Expert: the package you want is
> alsa-utils. I have no idea if it's the only one. At any rate, I just
> installed alsa-utils and everything that was recommended until no more
> packages were recommended. Then I ran alsaconf, answered the questions as
> close to correctly as I could manage -- and I have sound!
>
alsa-utils is already installed and running alsaconf as root gives me
bupkus! Command not found. Alsa-base is also installed. Now what?
Xubuntu's xfce GUI has mixer settings, but that just shows me a default
setting without any details and no way to change anything that I can see.
Geoff
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| Tim Wescott 2007-01-25, 1:15 am |
| geoff wrote:
> Tim Wescott wrote:
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> alsa-utils is already installed and running alsaconf as root gives me
> bupkus! Command not found. Alsa-base is also installed. Now what?
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> Xubuntu's xfce GUI has mixer settings, but that just shows me a default
> setting without any details and no way to change anything that I can see.
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> Geoff
Alas, I've told you everything I know. It worked for me, luckily. We'll
have to wait for someone who actually knows what they're doing to answer
your questions.
--
Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
www.wescottdesign.com
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| SINNER 2007-01-25, 1:15 am |
| * geoff wrote in alt.os.linux.debian:
> Tim Wescott wrote:
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> alsa-utils is already installed and running alsaconf as root gives me
> bupkus! Command not found. Alsa-base is also installed. Now what?
> Xubuntu's xfce GUI has mixer settings, but that just shows me a default
> setting without any details and no way to change anything that I can see.
> Geoff
I realize you are not running gnome, but have you had a look at this:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/ Dapper...operly_in_GNOME
--
David
We must believe in free will. We have no choice. -Isaac B. Singer
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| AJackson 2007-01-27, 1:14 am |
| On Jan 18, 1:51 am, geoff <g...@sunfishdesigns.com> wrote:
> A few weeks ago I Installed Xubuntu on a laptop drive from a desktop via
> the USB port. I then ported the drive to my Omnibook 800ct laptop and
> was able to boot with all but the sound card configured. This is my
> first try at a Debian distro so some of the tools I was used to in my
> Mandrake experience don't exist. So far I haven't figured out the sound
> card.
>
> Xubuntu, lspci, etc., does not "see" the sound card at all. Xmms
> reports, naturally, the sound card is misconfigured. This laptop has an
> on-board ES1888 type chip that was configured as an SB card in a
> previous Mandrake install. The relevant lines for my card in
> /etc/modules.conf were:
Would guess that this card isn't a pci-card then or might be disbled in
BIOS.
> # Alsa portion
> options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
> alias snd-card-0 snd-card-es1688
> options snd-card-es1688 snd_port=0x220 snd_dma8_size=32 snd_dma8=1 snd_irq=5
>
> # OSS portion
> alias snd-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
What does lsmod say? Any snd-es1688 in that list (ALSA kernel sound
card drivers has droped "-card" in name).
If not, try to put this in file "alsa-local" in "/etc/modprobe.d/", if
you running kernel 2.6 or later and have package "module-init-tools"
installed. If you have an older kernel, us package "modutils" and put
file in directory "/usr/modutil/" instead. If you dont use an older
kernel, purge package "modutils".
Check which options the kernel module have with
sudo modinfo snd-es1688
=============== cut ====================
# alsa-local
#
# Setting up a sound card manually in this machine (my guess for
parameters)
alias snd-card-0 snd-es1688
options snd-es1688 index=0 port=0x220 dma8=1 irq=5
#
# eof
#
=============== cut ====================
This "should" be all that you need. If it worked in Mandrake and you
didn't chang any parameters in BIOS for that card.
> What are the equivalent settings in Xubuntu?
Works in Debian, should work in Ubuntu et. all.
> Also, would it have been better, for configuration sake, to attempt an
> install driectly from the hard drive with it in the OB800, rather than
> on a foreign machine? In my case I did it the quick and dirty way
> because this OB800 does not have a CDrom and there's no way to boot from
> anything other than the external floppy or the installed hd because the
> BIOS hasn't been updated in 8 years or so. In fact it's not even
> supposed to be able to use a drive bigger than 8gb.
I dont think it would been any difference. Becouse with initrd.img you
get all drivers needed from there, and they get configured when booted.
So shouldn't been any major difference. Might be that the X server
would need to be reconfigure, which is easy (dpkg-reconfigure -plow
xserver-xorg).
You should be abel to boot from floppy and then continue installation
from CDROM or through Internet. I don't remember which software was
needed to do that. You can also install from the hard disk, if you can
put some binary there. Look at installation documentation for Ubuntu
or Debian. You are not the first that have had this kind of problem, I
have had it once ;-)
Good luck
/Jxn
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| AJackson 2007-01-27, 1:14 am |
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On Jan 25, 2:59 am, SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> wrote:
> * geoff wrote in alt.os.linux.debian:
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> http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/ Dapper...k_pr
o...
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> --
> David
> We must believe in free will. We have no choice. -Isaac B. Singer
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| Thanks for this info. I have just reinstalled Xubuntu in this Omnibook
800ct laptop on a larger (40gb) drive using the alt-Xubuntu distro. I
had to install it in another machine and then put the drive in the
laptop because I have no CD-ROM for this OB. The hassle then was getting
X to work. Now that it's running, I'll try these suggestions for the
sound card. Thanks again.
> What does lsmod say? Any snd-es1688 in that list (ALSA kernel sound
> card drivers has droped "-card" in name).
> If not, try to put this in file "alsa-local" in "/etc/modprobe.d/", if
> you running kernel 2.6 or later and have package "module-init-tools"
> installed. If you have an older kernel, us package "modutils" and put
> file in directory "/usr/modutil/" instead. If you dont use an older
> kernel, purge package "modutils".
>
> Check which options the kernel module have with
> sudo modinfo snd-es1688
> =============== cut ====================
> # alsa-local
> #
> # Setting up a sound card manually in this machine (my guess for
> parameters)
> alias snd-card-0 snd-es1688
> options snd-es1688 index=0 port=0x220 dma8=1 irq=5
> #
> # eof
> #
> =============== cut ====================
> This "should" be all that you need. If it worked in Mandrake and you
> didn't chang any parameters in BIOS for that card.
>
>
> Works in Debian, should work in Ubuntu et. all.
>
>
> I dont think it would been any difference. Becouse with initrd.img you
> get all drivers needed from there, and they get configured when booted.
> So shouldn't been any major difference. Might be that the X server
> would need to be reconfigure, which is easy (dpkg-reconfigure -plow
> xserver-xorg).
>
> You should be abel to boot from floppy and then continue installation
> from CDROM or through Internet. I don't remember which software was
> needed to do that. You can also install from the hard disk, if you can
> put some binary there. Look at installation documentation for Ubuntu
> or Debian. You are not the first that have had this kind of problem, I
> have had it once ;-)
>
> Good luck
> /Jxn
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