After installing the ess18xx isa driver, sound works in 3.01, but on next reboot, there's an x on the speaker icon in the taskbar and the master volume control in the mixer is back to zero. If you try to reset the slider, it goes back to zero after you release it! If you reinstall the driver, it wor...

After noticing a kind of fluttering of a text box for the mounting program for Puppy (when mounting the thumb drive with the music files in question), I put the files on another thumb drive and the problem disappeared. Sorry I didn't try that earlier.

First, let me say Puppy 2.17 is working quite well, overall, except for the sound. I have an old Sager portable with an ESS1879 chip. The snd-es1688 module works better than the snd-es18xx, so I use the former. However, when playing a wav or mp3 file, each time I use the "play" command, th...