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simon.tinycore:
I am having problems setting up alsa sound on my old compaq armada 1750 the sound card is an old non plug and play es 1688. In short:

1. alsa, alsa-modules, alsaconf are installed on boot yet when I run "sudo alsaconf" It dosn't detect my soundcard.

2. I install the modules for the sound card  manualy as per the alsa web site

sudo modprobe snd-es1688
sudo modprobe snd-pcm-oss
sudo modprobe snd-mixer-oss
sudo modprobe snd-seq-oss

All modules are loaded successfully

I then run sudo alsaconf
 and it dosn't detect or set up my sound card.
I run > "sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/alsasound start" it gives me the error "amixer attach default error: No such file or directory    Something went wrong, sound was not set up"

Question : What am I doing wrong? This is a list of loaded modules:

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
snd_seq_dummy            648  0
snd_seq_oss            15364  0
snd_seq_midi_event      2624  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                26036  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            24484  0
snd_mixer_oss           8648  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_es1688              2176  0
snd_opl3_lib            4888  1 snd_es1688
snd_hwdep               3004  1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_es1688_lib          6704  1 snd_es1688
snd_pcm                37628  2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_es1688_lib
snd_timer              10564  3 snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          4016  1 snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         2780  1 snd_es1688
snd_rawmidi            10004  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          2808  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd                    26200 13 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_es1688,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_es1688_lib,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore               2640  1 snd
cdc_acm                10364  2
vfat                    5596  0
fat                    30220  1 vfat
joydev                  5808  0
squashfs               14724 30
3c59x                  22084  0
pcmcia                 12756  0
scsi_wait_scan           276  0
ramzswap               10240  1
yenta_socket           13432  3
rsrc_nonstatic          5780  1 yenta_socket
loop                    8068 60
pcmcia_core            17332  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic



 

Rich:
Hi simon.tinycore
Read these two threads, they should provide some useful information.

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=8927.msg48628#msg48628
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=8963.msg48785#msg48785

simon.tinycore:
Thanks for the links. After reading through them I learn't the following:

1. Alsaconf needs to run successfully to set up the soundcard to run with Alsa.
One of the links seems to imply that the following files and Directories are affected by alsaconf

A.etc/modprobe.conf  B.etc/asound.state  C. opt/alsa

Perhaps I can manually write the correct values to these files

2. One post said to install alsa-plugins - I will see if this makes any difference

After I run Alsaconf I can do the other steps. Does anyone know why Alsaconf is not detecting my card?

Jason W:
Did you probe for legacy cards in alsaconf after it stated no soundcards found?  I assume you did,
but since you didn't specify I thought I would ask.

aus9:
hi

personally I don't like alsaconf but each to his her own ok?

try the wiki section called using alsasound

http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:setting_up_sound

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