I've never been able to get this working with tinycore_2.x on my Dell laptops. Sound modules seem to load okay with alsaconf; I run udevtrigger, make sure alsamixer sound levels are up, etc, but no sound other than an initial click. Alsa worked with tinycore-1.X.
alsasound start:
tc@box:/usr/local/etc/init.d$ ./alsasound start
Starting sound driver: snd-intel8x0
Starting sound driver: snd-intel8x0m
speaker-test:
Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 2048 to 16384
Period size range from 1024 to 1024
Using max buffer size 16384
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 1024
was set buffer_size = 16384
0 - Front Left
Time per period = 2.664020
0 - Front Left
Time per period = 2.986219
0 - Front Left
Time per period = 2.986219
0 - Front Left
Time per period = 2.986239
0 - Front Left
lsmod:
snd_ac97_codec 66288 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 408 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 36852 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_ codec
serio_raw 2240 0
snd_timer 10340 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 25936 12 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss, snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 2192 1 snd