Sound

terrybull · posted: 2011-07-04 19:19

I have been using version 8.5 on my Panasonic CF-27. All works well. I have recently tried to upgrade to the M11 version but the sound does not work now. I am a newbie so can anyone suggest how I can get the sound working please. Thanks

OU812 · posted: 2011-07-04 20:50

Hello.

Launch the control center. Click the hardware tab. Click the configure sound system button.

john

rokytnji · posted: 2011-07-05 03:22

I have a Panasonic Cf-48. It's a bit more powerful than your CF-27.

I have found through my years of using AntiX which is based on Debian that Debian drops sound support for older sound cards sometimes. I ran into this back when I had my IBM 390E. Try OU812s suggestion. The worst case senario is that a come back readout is no supported sound card found. If so. Post

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inxi -F

so members can see what sound card your Panasonic uses. I'm on my IBM T23 right now for example.

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$ inxi -F
System:    Host biker Kernel 2.6.34-stevo i686 (32 bit) 
           Desktop Fluxbox 1.3.1 Distro antiX-M8.5 Marek Edelman 16 February 2010
Machine:   Mobo IBM model 26474MU Bios IBM version 1AET64WW (1.20 ) date 10/18/2006
CPU:       Single core Mobile Intel Pentium III CPU - M (-UP-) cache 512 KB flags (sse) clocked at 798.00 MHz 
Graphics:  Card: S3 SuperSavage IX/C SDR X.Org 1.10.2 driver vesa Resolution 1024x768@71.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.10.3
Audio:     Card Intel 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH Sound: ALSA v: 1.0.22.1
Network:   Card-1 Ralink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI driver rt61pci 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: edited
           Card-2 Intel 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller driver e100 
           IF: eth0 state: down speed: 10 Mbps duplex: half mac: edited
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 80.0GB (12.5% used) 1: /dev/hda ST980815A 80.0GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 6.8G used: 3.0G (47%) fs: ext3 ID:/home size: 11G used: 1.5G (16%) fs: ext3 
           ID:swap-1 size: 1.04GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0C mobo: 48.0C 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 4890 
Info:      Processes 85 Uptime 1:27 Memory 188.3/1008.7MB Client Shell inxi 1.7.13

The

Audio: Card Intel 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH Sound: ALSA v: 1.0.22.1

Is my souncard on this IBM Laptop. Sound works OK on my Panasonic CF-48 Laptop In AntiX 11 as well also. Though I realize a Panasonic CF-27 might have different hardware than my CF-48. It is the Holidays here so things may be quiet here as hang overs are recuperated from.

terrybull · posted: 2011-07-07 15:33

When I try to configure the sound I get a message saying no PnP or pci sound found and the search for legacy drivers says no legacy drivers available. The sound card is detected and is a Yamaha corp YMF 744. It seems that there is a similar problem posted here
no-yamaha-audio-in-m11-fix-t2914.html
I am too much of a newbie to understand how he fixed the problem. Can someone explain to me, a newbie how to fix this please

anticapitalista · posted: 2011-07-07 16:16

Presuming you have antiX installed to hard disk.

Download yamaha.tar.gz to you home username directory from here:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://www.mepisimo.com/antix/Tarballs/"
linktext was:"http://www.mepisimo.com/antix/Tarballs/"
====================================

In rox-filer, right click on the downloaded tarball and extract, extract, quit.

You should have a folder called yamaha with some other files in it.

You now need to move that folder to /lib/firmware

Open a terminal, type su and your root password then

mv yamaha /lib/firmware

Reboot and hopefully sound will be detected.

terrybull · posted: 2011-07-09 08:18

Many thanks for the quick response. I reinstalled 8.5 for the time being but will try with m11 again over the weekend. Could I copy the Yamaha files from the 8.5 version I have installed at the moment from the lib directory to a memory stick and paste these to M11 lib directory. Would that work or is there more to it. Thanks again

anticapitalista · posted: 2011-07-09 11:46

That should work. You will need to paste as admin/root user.

terrybull · posted: 2011-07-09 20:33

Hi again. I have downloaded and extracted the Yamaha dir to my downloads dir. I now need to move it to lib/firmware. I cannot do it as I understand I need to be logged in as root in order to paste to /lib/firmware. I reboot and when I get the login prompt type root and the root password I choose when I installed. It seems like it is going to log me in but I get dumped back to the login screen. I know the root password is definately the one I chose at installation. Where am I going wrong. I can get up a terminal and su and my root password seems to work there. Help.
Thanks

anticapitalista · posted: 2011-07-09 20:39

Login as user, then open a terminal and type sux followed by your root password. Then type rox to open it as root user. Navigate to /lib/firmware and in anothe rox (ok as user) paste the yamaha folder into /lib/firmware.

terrybull · posted: 2011-07-10 10:22

I solved the issue by booting a live CD (puppy 5.1) and used this to get in the hard drive move the Yamaha dir from downloads to lib/firmware. On reboot to antix the sound is up and running __{{emoticon}}__ I will try the instructions in the message above as I am trying to learn what I can about Antix and Linux in general. Problem solved so thanks to those who replied for all their prompt and clear advise.