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  1. 07-01-2008 #1
    Martin A
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    No sound in DSL

    I've spent 2 days googling this subject to death but to no avail, I've installed DSL on a Toshiba Tecra 730XCDT with 48Mb of RAM, and a 2.1Gb HDD, and all works fine except for the sound. I can't find any info about the sound chipset in this computer and DSL doesn't seem to detect it.. so I don't really know where to start..

    Any suggestions would be appreciated!

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    try running:
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    lspci
    and post the output here...

    have you installed alsa-core and ran:
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    alsaconf
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    Thanks for the reply, running $lspci i get:

    Code:
    00:00.0 Host bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems CPU to PCI bridge (rev 12)
00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Chips and Technologies F65550 (rev 45)
    Ill try installing alsa-core and see what happens..

    Thanks!!

    EDIT: I've installed alsa but I can't add the required boot option as lilo.conf is read-only. So I can't run alsa-conf..

    Any ideas?

    Thanks
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    Quote Originally Posted by Martin A View Post
    Thanks for the reply, running $lspci i get:

    Code:
    00:00.0 Host bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems CPU to PCI bridge (rev 12)
00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Chips and Technologies F65550 (rev 45)
    Ill try installing alsa-core and see what happens..

    Thanks!!

    EDIT: I've installed alsa but I can't add the required boot option as lilo.conf is read-only. So I can't run alsa-conf..

    Any ideas?

    Thanks
    nothing is read-only if you use your root account, are you sure you logged in as root to modify lilo.conf ?
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    I'm logged in as root, and nano reports that lilo.conf is read-only..
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  6. 07-23-2008 #6
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    Smile

    I've got the same laptop and I run many OS's on it, including DSL (I use 3 separate HDDs - just swap in and out of the tray)

    There's a good site which helped me set up DSL:

    Installing Linux on the Toshiba 730XCDT

    Try (as root) modprobe cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0

    That should fix things.

    You may also want to try running puppy linux on it too (the puppy site is just as busy as the DSL site).

    BTW, I find you can get new HDDs to work in this laptop - the biggest one I use is 40gig.

    Hope this helps!!
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