to all those who took the time to reply to my question I thank you....well the sound problem was solved by installing Wary Puppy...I burned the iso tossed in in the old box and when it started I heard the "woof woof" wave track...I was elated to say the least...so I installed to the hardri...

izezi...as much as i have enjoyed running unixes over the years...i dare not think bsd will run on this old sucka ...i only have 160 mgs of ram...the max this old girl will handle

ok izezi...did this happen out of the box? i would like to know just how you made this thing work...if you don't mind ...

to be honest I did not expect help...I have never been able to find a solution to this problem online....i think the modules written for this soundcard are bad...and over the years nothing has ever been done to fix the problem...look at the internet to back me up....linux and the linux community has...

System Gateway Solo 2150 laptop with Ectiva 1938 soundcard Installed Lucid Puppy 5.2.5 lspci: Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs Ectiva EV1938 lsmod: Module Size Used by snd_ens1371 12374 0 gameport 5717 1 snd_ens1371 snd_ac97_codec 75789 1 snd_ens1371 ad97_bus 686 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_o...

#1 an old homebuilt: p3 1gb, 512 mb sdram, ati radeon 9600 128mb vram, sb 24 bit, pro video tv card, 2 hdd, 1- 80gb w/xp and linux mint, 1-60gb w/xp #2 HP dv6885se lappy, 2.2gb dual core intel, 3gb ddr ram, nvidia 8400 256mb vram, realtek onboard audio, 250gb hdd w/vista #3 IBM Thinkpad T40, 1.5gb c...