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Posted: **Sun 27 Apr 2008, 18:43**

Thanks Aitch and bugman. I am downloading Empty Crust and Simplepup right now. Thanks. I will update after I see how they run.

Posted: **Tue 29 Apr 2008, 15:45**

I got both empty crust and simple pup running, but I need to find modules before I can run the sound. Does anyone know where I can download sound modules? Thanks

Posted: **Wed 30 Apr 2008, 07:23**

toomuchcomputertime

......but I need to find modules before I can run the sound.

What modules?

try typing in a console

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# aplay /usr/share/audio/2barks.au

did you try running alsamixer ?

The mute may be on or the volumes down

Aitch

Posted: **Wed 30 Apr 2008, 10:22**

Hi,
To go back to your original post, I don't know if this may be related, if you were using 3.01

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=24608

I would still check mixer settings, though

Aitch

Posted: **Wed 30 Apr 2008, 11:33**

toomuchcomputertime wrote:Does anyone know where I can download sound modules?

I think you misunderstand how audio in Linux works. Puppy already contains drivers for all supported sound cards. Since Puppy version 1.0.8 these are the ALSA drivers. Prior to version 1.0.8 Puppy had the old OSS drivers.
The question is which driver to use, and what configuration options that driver may require.
It appears that your AD1812-based sound card is soundblaster compatible. So I would speculate that it should work with the snd-sb8 module.

toomuchcomputertime wrote:I disabled the plug and play in both the bios and the kernel

Yes, that's a good start. Without this setting, ISA-based devices can be problematic in Linux. Actually, if you have disabled the PnP option in bios, it's not necessary to do the same thing with a kernel parameter.
Try the automatic configuration first. Run the ALSA Sound Wizard, and select "sb16".
If no success, you must now try some manual configuration. Open /etc/modprobe.conf in geany and you will see these lines at the bottom -

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alias snd-card-0 snd-sb8
alias sound-slot-0 snd-sb8
options snd-sb8 irq=? dma8=? port=?

Now you will need to find out the card's hardware settings - irq/dma8/port, and manually change these values in modprobe.conf
Reboot after each change.

Better still, throw that sound card in the bin and replace it with a more mainstream sound card, preferably PCI instead of ISA.

Posted: **Thu 26 Jun 2008, 20:52**

I ended up using another computer that was newer. I am not having any further sound card problems with any computers. Thanks

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