Sound acting up (solved)

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Sound acting up (solved)

#1 Post by mjmikulcik »

Okay. So, I'm new to puppy and I'm runny Slacko64 and I'm having trouble getting the sound to work right. It plays the woof when I go through the ALSA sound wizard but then when I go to play music or whatever it sounds like its a fuzzy radio with a lot of noise. I don't know what's wrong with that, but i can live with it though I rather wouldn't.
Also, I can't get any web browser to play sound on videos. Firefox seems to play HTML5 audio but not the sound on HTML5 video and Chrome won't play any sound.
I'm guessing, but I don't really know what I'm talking about, that it has something to do with pulseaudio.
I'd appreciate any help.
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#2 Post by bigpup »

Slacko64
That is not specific enough information.

There are about 5+ versions of Slacko64.
Slacko64 6.3.0
Slacko64 6.3.2
Slacko64 6.9.6.4
Slacko64 6.9.9.6
Slacko64 6.9.9.8
etc......
Could be dealing with a known bug or a buggy version.
Which one?

Computer is what?
Make and model?
Desktop?
Laptop?

Sound is provided by what?
Internal or external speakers?
Headset?

In general:
Make sure you have the correct sound device selected to provide sound.
menu->Setup->ALSA Sound Wizard->Multiple Cards

menu->Setup->ALSA Sound Wizard->Adjust Levels
Check that correct selections are made and adjusted.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
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#3 Post by mjmikulcik »

I'm using version 6.3.0 on a Lenovo ideapad 100 laptop with sound coming from internal speakers

Sound card is: card1:pcsp [pcsp], device 0, pcspeaker [pcsp]
It seems to be the only one that works.

I'm pretty sure the levels are right. The test sound works, its just fuzzy.

Master is at 20<>20
I muted the beep
BaseFrq 18643
card pcsp
chip PC-speaker

Pupsysinfo gives me this for audio devices

▶—— Audio Devices ——◀

Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:160c] (rev 09)
• Kernel Driver: snd_hda_intel
--
Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:9ca0] (rev 03)
• Kernel Driver: snd_hda_intel
• Memory Used: 19.82 KB
• Path: /lib/modules/4.1.11/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko
• Description: Intel HDA driver

Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:160c] (rev 09)
• Kernel Driver: snd_hda_intel
--
Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:9ca0] (rev 03)
• Kernel Driver: snd_hda_intel
• Memory Used: 19.82 KB
• Path: /lib/modules/4.1.11/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko
• Description: Intel HDA driver

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Audio and video play locally from a mediaplayer but still fuzzy

I thought it was because the browsers wouldn't use alsa on some things but I tried installing pulseaudio (perhaps incorrectly) and I couldn't get that to work. Chrome has pepper flash. Firefox doesn't have flash. I'm out of ideas.

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A thought

#4 Post by Limbomusic »

I also have a Lenovo Ideapad 100 - Havent tried slacko on it but tahr64 runs really well. - and sound is fine. - I think slacko64 6.0.3 uses the 4.1.11 kernel - and - with that kernel my wifi-connection would drop out all the time - but I switched to newer kernel and its been flawless ever since.

Maybe u could try downloading the newest kernel: (as of todays date)
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/hu ... 00.tar.bz2

You just extract it - and then u find 2 files in the extracted folder.
Now - on your usb-drive - OR frugal install folder - find the files: vmlinuz and zdrv_slacko/tahr--something. The 2 new files need to be named the same as the originals
OK - from the extracted folder - the vmlinuz-something - rename that to just vmlinuz. And then the other one - to the same name as the original (zdrv_whatever.sfs) - then after renaming the 2 files - copy and replace the original ones - to the usb/or frugal install folder and reboot.

Might be an easier way to switch kernels - but this way always works for me.

I,m far from an expert - just an enthusiastic user - and I,m just thinking that maybe the newer kernel has newer/better drivers for your soundcard.

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#5 Post by mjmikulcik »

Thanks a lot!

That fixed everything and worked great. It's no longer fuzzy too. It recognized more cards and I guess the updated kernel supported my hardware.

Thank you so much

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cool

#6 Post by Limbomusic »

Youre welcome !
Happy to hear it worked out :-)

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