!!!!!FIXED!!!No audio from Dell Latitude CPI using Puppy 4.2

[Aitch]

Ah yes lspci won't run in bash, I think

maybe try

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LSPCI=`which lspci`
g++ -DLSPCI="$LSPCI" ...

don't know - something I found on a LQ fedora thread...supposed to search path/files for lspci location, I think

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... th-342106/

did you try the 214x9 by ttuuxxx?

I had a reply from him, -I think he believes sound will be ok, but he's not familiar with your PC and doesn't have one for testing, so, you are his guineapig tester... Wink

???

Aitch

[Eathray]

The only difference is that the number symbol changed to a greater-then symbol. It made no reply.

Also, I installed those two files from ttuuxxx, but nothing happened. However, it wasn't a manual install like the reply to Cegil showed. Pet installer prompted me on the install, so I let it. That's it. nothing.

[Eathray]

Puppy doesn't like me.

[Eathray]

The bios says that my audio controller is Crystal, even though I know the device is legacy with a soundblaster driver. Does that mean anything?

[Aitch]

Eathray

found this for the crystal cs4232 [though it was for a slightly different pc

added "modprobe -v cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0" to line 138 of /etc/rd.1/rc.local0 for full soundcard support. (yep!)

another possibilty is CS4237B

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=853

here's alsa info, bit deep though....

http://www.sabi.co.uk/Notes/linuxSoundALSA.html

Other than that, I'm pretty much out of ideas.....back to PM tempestuous, I'm afraid

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/privms ... post&u=217

Aitch

[Eathray]

I have never added code to a program before. what would I be adding this code to? Just stick it in the consule? I see a rout that starts with etc. Where is that?

Remember, I'm a dunce when it comes to linux. This is my first serious attempt, and I probably need you to go ahead and state the obvious.

[Eathray]

Okay, I pasted some code into that local file and now I'll see...

[Eathray]

I found the specified file, tried the two different bits of code, didn't work. Fudge.

[Bligh]

I have one box with a 24bit sb card , sound only works on Lighthouse pup 301g which defaults to kde desktop. I haven't tried changing desktops to see if sound works in jwm.
Cheers

[Aitch]

Earthray

I overlooked an important tip from tempestuous, I saw in another thread

You may have overlooked the most important preparatory step: set your bios for "PnP OS = NO".
This is very very important for getting ISA devices to play well in Linux.

from that same thread, seems aclowery got sound working on a dell cpi d266xt, don't know if this is the same model you have?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 4&start=30

HTH

Aitch

[Eathray]

I'm going to check it out. can you tell me what it means?

[Eathray]

I don't know what it is. Is it called something different in dell A12 bios?

Any way, I can't find anything called pnp. If you can tell me what it is and what it does, I can probably find something out about it at the dell forum.

[Eathray]

apparently later bios don't need this option since microsoft says starting with win2k windows will run with pnp set either yes or no, so they simply don't ask the question in my bios (a12).

[Aitch]

aha, what windoze says and does is not really appropriate to linux

pnp is plug & play [often called plug & pray as it fails as often as it works]

you should set it for off

maybe also if you see acpi, a power management option, set that to off, too

did you try ttuuxxx's 214xx yet? see my posts for link

Aitch

[Eathray]

My bios does not give me an option to set pnp, unless it's being called something else and I don't recognize it, but I don't think it's there.

I tried ttuuxxx's 214 programs, but nothing.

Power management: I'll check that one tonight after work.

What do you think about trying to use a wrapper like wine?

[Aitch]

I have no experience of wine, so can't say - if you know how, try it

did you try pm'ing tempestuous?

Aitch

[Eathray]

I tried him once, but he didn't reply. I figured he might have 10k new to puppy people bugging him, so I'd give it some time, but I'll try him again.

Never used wine, never used anything with linux before. this is a brave new world for me

[Eathray]

I want to go back to the beginning. How do I uninstall what I've changed and reload the original alsaconf 4.2 that came with my distribution?

[Eathray]

I uninstalled the alsa packages I had installed, rebooted, and Puppy simply reverted back to the original Alsa. That was easier than I expected. Now if I could just figure out what's wrong with my stuff.

[Eathray]

Sent :: Message
From: Eathray
To: Aitch
Posted: Today, at 02:51
Subject: found some code, but don't know what to do with it
Can you give me a hand? I found some code, but I don't know where to put it in, i.e. a file, a counsel, what...

The code I found is here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... de-296835/

The guy has the same audio controller as me. Just don't know where to put it.

Thanks

Eathray