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Hey guys,
I didn't sleep so I could get this working. It's driving me crazy.
I have a Toughbook CF-71 that has a YMF744 soundcard. Naturally, I would be using snd-ymfpci as a module for this, but Arch doesn't seem to be ok with it. I'm out of touch with sound configuration ever since I started using Ubuntu. Everything is automatic in that you know.
Anyways, I have alsa-utils, alsa-lib, and alsa-oss packages installed. So, I run alsaconf to see if the program can probe for my soundcard. Now, this is the same sound card that has some IRQ issues with the PCMCIA port.
In the BIOS, I have assigned Auto for the sound card and it appears it's ending up in IRQ 5. So while the ALSA wiki suggests using snd-ymfpci, alsaconf can't probe any pci sound cards. It falls back to ISA cards etc. It finds a match: snd-opl3sa2. So, after it runs, alsamixer is supposed to see the card, right? Wrong.
When I run alsamixer, an error comes up looking for the sound card. There's no asound.state file for the card. It stores alias information in /etc/modprobe.d/sound and I added the module snd-opl3sa2 in /etc/rc.conf.
But it doesn't work. Now, the interesting thing, I wanted to see if Ubuntu could probe for the sound card. And what do you know? I right-clicked on the volume control and Ubuntu had found the card using the snd-opl3sa2 modules. Lo and behold, it got it. I was playing something using the Ubuntu LiveCD in no time. Now, I suspect Ubuntu used Alsaconf to configure the sound card; why else would the same module be used, a module that ALSA doesn't even recommend.
If someone can help get sound on this working in Arch, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks
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any response at all...I know people here can fix this...it did work in out of the box in ubuntu after all
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