Hi forum,

my Toshiba Tecra 8000 doesn't seem to produce any sound. Doesn't start alsamixer, dmesg doesn't output anything containing"snd","inxi -F" doesn't contain any sound card.

The laptop is equipped with a Yamaha Opl3 chip. Is
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the only way to get it to work?
Does anyone know a simpler way? Something like"apt-get install this-and-that" and it works?

As the root operator try If you have the module snd-opl3-sa2, you can modprobe it, but I get the feeling you need to compile it on your machine, just like I had to do for the Intel driver on my HP G62 when I first got it. I no longer have to do that as the driver gets built OK nowadays, so until it gets built in, I think you will need to compile it.

Sounds like a kernel thing to me.


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You might want to try a older Debian kernel in the 2.6 range I would think to get that module included in the kernel. I figure you may be suffering from kernel
regression and support for that ancient yamaha card was dropped to save space on the kernel size which keeps getting bigger as more hardware needs supporting.

I am wondering if
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if that might support your yamaha card better.

@fatmac

so until it gets built in,

I have a feeling it was built in a long time ago.

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@fatmac
All packages whose name starts with"snd" belong to a sound file editor of that name. Are the drivers in a repository that is not known to apt by default?

If it's an available package, an apt-get will download & install it. However, it sounds like you will have to compile alsa on your machine to get that card working.


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The package doesn't seem to be available. At least not in the standard repos: So I tried
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and failed because doesn't do anything. The configure script (I guess that's what it is?) is not in the downloaded tarball. Nor is it in a checkout from the git repo.

How did you get your driver compiled?

First off. Do you have build-essential package installed?

Looking at your link instructions for installing.

They seem pretty straight foward to me

./configure --with-cards=opl3-sa2 --with-sequencer=yes

Then make

then sudo make install.

if missing any libs. configure will mention them. All commands must be ran in the folder you unzipped.

There is no"./configure" to execute in the downloaded sources, therefore it won't mention anything.
Is there something that's not mentioned in the instructions because everyone knows it, except me, how to get that"./configure" to work?

There should be a README file that will tell you how to set it up.
It is a while since I had to do this, but I think I had to give .configure about 4 extra options on my HP-G62.

Here's what I did :-
Dowloaded alsa-driver package, installed linux-source & linux-headers, then ran then reboot.

Even though I'm risking to repeat myself: There is no"./configure" executable file. It won't therefore take any argument at all.

luker wrote:Even though I'm risking to repeat myself: There is no"./configure" executable file. It won't therefore take any argument at all.

Maybe a corrupted downloaded file? One does not know what to say? If I had the configure text file. I'd upload it here to the thread. But I do not have
that sound chip. There are tons of downloads at


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Not once in this thread has anyone given a link on which one fits this card. I sure in the heck do not know myself.
Heck. Maybe you grabbed the wrong one luker since everyone else that has this gear seems to be able to get it to work.

It's been a while but I have sound now.

I had to compile a custom kernel with support for ISA bus and ISA Plug'n'Play because both were ditched from the standard kernel some time ago. The Yamaha OPL3 connects to the system via ISA bus.

As I was at it anyway, I added OPL3 module support the same way. Was quite a bit of work for the venerable PII-300, but it got the job done in one day. Thank you all fr your hints on the subject.

Now here's the big But: Playback only, no recording yet. Any ideas on that? (I already checked the mixer and that it works in Win98SE.)
with arecord, there's just an error message about not being allowed to create the output file although it gets created and has a size of 42 bytes every time (I don't recall the exact number of bytes nor the exact error message, sorry. Will add that later.)

forty-two bytes? Are you sure it wasn't 44?
reminds me of this discussion: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=6470