sound on tinycore

[merlin]

If your sound card is not recognized by tiny core linux, how do you get it recognized?

[gerald_clark]

Look for an extension that contains the module you need.

[bmarkus]

If your sound card is not recognized by tiny core linux, how do you get it recognized?

Sound card is not recognized by TC but the relevant extension, ALSA or OSS. Which one you have tried?

[merlin]

I have not tried ALSA or OSS.  Doesn't the sound card have to be recognized and the module loaded before these are relevant or can be used?

[Jason W]

Alsa or OSS extensions contain the modules that will recognize the card.

[bmarkus]

I have not tried ALSA or OSS.  Doesn't the sound card have to be recognized and the module loaded before these are relevant or can be used?

No. When you install TC, there are no sound subsystem supported, you have to install ALSA or OSS to get sound working. You can start with Alsa. Then set volume and unmute. Issue following commands in a terminal as root:

amixer set Master unmute
amixer set Master 80%

To test, use:

speaker-test -c 2

You will hear (hopefully) a noise from the speakers.

[merlin]

Thanks for the information.  I downloaded alsa and ran alsaconf.  It recognized my sound card and configured it and indicated that sound levels were ready to be controlled by a sound mixer.  I got nowhere with the amixer commands.  I could not figure out the commands and the labels used by amixer, so I download sgmixer and adjusted the volume labeled pcm, not sure what pcm stands for, and then I got sound from the speakers using the speaker-test -c 2 command.  So it works, but how it works seems a bit mysterious.

[jur]

type alsamixer, then you get a curses-version of a mixer that may be helpful.

[merlin]

Aah, yes, thank you.  Alsamixer is a very nice mixer that works very well and is easy to use.