Hi Chris:
  If you can access the machine's BIOS when you boot it up perhaps you
can retrieve some more detailed information regarding the audio chipset
and its configuration.
  For completeness sake I have to ask: how did you configure ALSA ? Did
you build and install the entire package ? Were there any problems with
it ?
Best regards,
== Dave Phillips
        The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at 
http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm
        The Linux Soundapps Site at 
http://linux-sound.org
Currently listening to: Brian Eno, "Unfamiliar Wind"
Chris Bray wrote:
 Hi All;
 I've been trying for a couple of days now to get
 any sound from my laptop (rebadged Asus L7000,
 Slackware 8.1, vanilla 2.4.20) and seem to be
 getting nowhere fast.
 I've tried OSS/Free and Alsa (0.9.0rc2 and 0.5.12a)
 and can't seem to get anything working.
 OSS just hangs as I modprobe the module, no log entries
 or anything I can find.
 isapnp.conf contains all the settings that Windows
 is using and everytime I try to get it running with
 modprobe snd-opl3sa2 (or snd-card-opl3sa2)
 I get
         "Yamaha OPL3-SA Soundcard not found or device busy"
 Can anyone please help me as I'm getting to the end
 of my patience!
 I am a bit of a newbie so if anyone has any ideas what
 I could have missed then please let me know.
 Chris Bray
 (Frustrated) 
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