I installed sarge via netinst on an IBM T23 laptop,
taking mostly defaults, and ended up with an OSS sound
setup.
uname -a gives me:
Linux mest23 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Fri Sep 3 06:24:46 UTC
2004 i686 GNU/Linux
lsmod output below also.
I am getting intermittent failures of sound, which I
am only able to resolve by rebooting - I realize there
may be a less drastic approach but newbies like me
lack the detailed understanding to do it any other way
:-)
When I reboot for this reason I see the message:
i810_audio: drain_dac, dma timeout?
which I have looked up but am intimidated by the
developer-speak in the hits I find.
I've tried to install alsa (via synaptic) but it
complained about not finding any sound card. The T23
clearly does have a sound card, it uses the Intel 810
chipset and OSS finds it OK. I must be missing
something there.
I get the impression that moving to a 2.6 kernel with
alsa might fix things - but how likely is it I can do
that without breaking anything? Would that upgrade be
a sensible move? Is it really as simple as apt-get
install kernel-<whatever>?
lsmod:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1 2780 0 (autoclean)
isofs 22996 0 (autoclean)
apm 8364 1 (autoclean)
ds 5844 2
parport_pc 19432 1 (autoclean)
lp 5540 0
parport 21608 1 [parport_pc lp]
af_packet 11048 1 (autoclean)
i810_rng 2368 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 19504 0 (unused)
usbcore 52268 1 [usb-uhci]
ide-scsi 8272 0
scsi_mod 86020 1 [ide-scsi]
e100 42868 1
yenta_socket 8804 2
pcmcia_core 38020 0 [ds yenta_socket]
agpgart 39108 0 (unused)
i810_audio 21372 2
ac97_codec 11252 0 [i810_audio]
soundcore 3268 2 [i810_audio]
ide-cd 27040 0
cdrom 26212 0 [ide-cd]
rtc 5768 0 (autoclean)
ext3 65388 1 (autoclean)
jbd 34628 1 (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect 288 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ide-disk 12416 2 (autoclean)
piix 7784 1 (autoclean)
ide-core 91800 2 (autoclean)
[ide-scsi ide-cd ide-detect ide-disk piix]
unix 12720 173 (autoclean)
Thanks for any advice.
Mark Scott
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