Sound off.

In an earlier article, I talked about doing a minimal install of Debian linux (http://computoman.blogspot.com/2014/10/installing-debian.html). Decided to get out an old machine (Gateway Solo 3350 laptop) that this was done with. In playing with the machine, found that there was no sound drivers set up. Did the traditional install of the alsa not the pulse audio stuff.  This an old systeml

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 8
model name    : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping    : 3
microcode    : 0x7
cpu MHz        : 597.424
cache size    : 256 KB
fdiv_bug    : no
hlt_bug        : no
f00f_bug    : no
coma_bug    : no
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 2
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 mmx fxsr sse up
bogomips    : 1194.84
clflush size    : 32
cache_alignment    : 32
address sizes    : 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management:

Did I have a sound card?

$ lspci -v | grep audio
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1 (rev 12)

Seems I do, so now to install the software.

$ sudo apt-get install alsa-base alsa-utils alsa-tools-gui alsaplayer-alsa  \ alsa-utils

Found the sound still did not work. did the usual modprobe and etc. with no luck. Time to do some research. Apparently I did not have the firmware installed for the sound card. In the article I found on the subject may not have pointed to the lastest firmware to I went to the source and downloaded the software. (alsa-firmware-1.0.28).


The came the process to install the firmware.

$ cd Downloads/
$ tar xvf alsa-firmware-1.0.28.tar.bz2']
$ cd alsa-firmware-1.0.28/
$ ./configure
$ cd maestro3
$ make
$ su
# mkdir /lib/firmware/ess
# cp *fw /lib/firmware/ess
# modprobe -r snd-maestro3 ; modprobe snd-maestro3
# adduser $USER audio
# exit
$ exit

Now to test the setup.  Now to see what the settings are on the card. You will want to unmute any output devices and raise the volumes as needed.
 
$ alsamixer


$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav
$ speaker-test -t sine -f 440 -c 2
$ speaker-test -t wav -c 2


Now it seems I have sound for everything that happens. Yea!


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