Problems with the new ALSA sound system

[gplsoftware.org]

Ever since Puppy 1.08 dropped OSS and picked up ALSA for sound I haven't been able to get my computers with AC'97 sound to work. I purchased a Sound Blaster sound card from my local computer store, but Puppy 1.08 and 1.08r1 still won't produce sound. Puppy 1.07 and earlier versions worked great. What is the problem?

[Flash]

Have you run Setup Alsa Sound in the menu you get when you click the desktop Setup icon?

Another possibility is to try Puppy2 alpha and see what happens.

[vabene06]

Same Problem with alsasound. Until puppy 1.0.7 everthing works. When changing to alsa, i got no sound. My soundcard is a AC97 on a sis-chip motherboard, loaded as snd-intel. Only when i compile alsa i get a sound. But when i restart restart nothing works again.
how can i get back to oss in puppy 1.0.9 alpha2?

[gplsoftware.org]

It look like one of the other discussions has found a solution:

http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=7447

I will try it tonight and post you tomorrow on how it worked.

[vabene06]

I tried them, they did not work for me.
I notized a strange thing, when restart puppy after compiling alsa. It works, after the restart, puppy hangs up. After second restart, puppy (1.0.9 a2) coms up, but no sound....

[gplsoftware.org]

You were right, it didn't work. However, the driver they posted wasn't for my chipset. I posted a question on the other discussion asking where I could download OSS drivers for other chipsets.

[vabene06]

Tried the new puppy 2-alpha28.4. The new kernel comes up with working sound for the ac97! you can get and install the new kernel 2.6.16 - and it should work.

[gplsoftware.org]

I did what you said and it worked!