Core 2 Toshiba 8100 (ymfpci)

[douglasxnichols]

I have a toshiba tecra 8100 with a yamaha 744 sound card. It seemed to work fine until I updated to Core 2. The alsa page declares it does not support pcm play back. I tried recompiling the kernel to support OSS, but that is really bad.

Anyone get it working?

cheers
dn

[cyborg]

The sort of same thing happened with me with my soundcard but I wasn't using a laptop. If anyone could help I'd really like to know :o

[ghaefb]

Until you updated from what? Wich Linux or windows?

[shankraft]

I was facing the same problem since I installed FC2.

Upgrading to the above kernel version solved the problem.

You can get the latest kernel RPM from http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/2/i386/ for FC2

Good Luck.

If you still have issues, you can email me at devhelp@shankraft.com


-Vijay Varadan
shankraft - the.monastery
http://www.shankraft.com

[rickcn]

Hi all,

I read many threads on this subject and played with my settings for several days now... till the point where I am about to go insane.

I have a Tecra 8100 laptop with 256MB ram, and a Yamaha soundcard, recognised as YM-F744B by FC2. During the installation the card was correctly detected but no sound played. I changed modules.conf, modprobe.conf back and forth using what I found on the web, but to no avail. Played with the alsamixer settings, and the standard Volumecontrol settings, and again: no sound but some crackling when the playback of a wav files starts and when it is supposed to end.

Now suddenly, yesterday evening, sound started playing? I was exhalted. I had found apparently some settings in the Volume control which must have worked but what? ONly the system sounds were still distorted; they appeared to be looping and overlapping with each other, playing the sound like a broken record.

Anyway, I logged off and checked whether under my usual user account the sound played, and behold: it worked as well. Tired I went to bed. This morning I started the laptop up .... and almost cried.... no sounds. Whatever I am trying, nothing worked.

Here is my configuration. I hope that someone can help me?

FC2 with updates; kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2.

lsmod:
Module Size Used by
snd_pcm_oss 47865 0
snd_mixer_oss 17217 3 snd_pcm_oss
snd_ymfpci 65157 3
snd_ac97_codec 64529 1 snd_ymfpci
snd_pcm 98761 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_ymfpci
snd_opl3_lib 11201 1 snd_ymfpci
snd_timer 30021 3 snd_ymfpci,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep 9413 1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_page_alloc 9801 2 snd_ymfpci,snd_pcm
gameport 5057 1 snd_ymfpci
snd_mpu401_uart 8897 1 snd_ymfpci
snd_rawmidi 26853 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8137 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd 54949 13 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ymfpci,snd_ac97_code c,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu 401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 10145 3 snd
toshiba_acpi 5845 0
.... etc.

modules.conf:
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ymfpci
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
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
# options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660 snd_device_gid=17 snd_device_uid=0
post-install snd alsactl restore

and modprobe.conf:
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
options orinoco_cs irq=7
alias eth0 3c59x

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-ymfpci

# module options should go here

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #1
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


Please HELP!

Kind regards,
Rick

[rickcn]

Hi,

Some more news here from the disappearing sound front:

I removed the acpi=force command from the bootcmd and played a bit around with my settings:
after I enable the use system sounds in the sound config applet, I get the chopped up sounds back which I have been missing since this morning. Now I tried to play some wav files in my Realplayer and behold, theyt played just fine. Even the system sounds would play fine in the RealPlayer10Gold.

However, using the command prompt, using play or aplay the chopped sounds were back; it seems like the sound is in an ever repeating sampleloop of 0.25s for the duration of the sound. Not so nice but it explains the chopped up system sounds which under water will probably use (a)play as well.

Now if I only would be able to find out what the difference is between the RealPlayer and the standard play application to play the sounds, we would get somewhat closer to the solution....

Anyone? Please?

Kind regards,
Rick