Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

kaljo · Joined: 19 Jul 2008 Posts: 4

Hi there,

I've been fighting my soundproblem for about 24h now, getting tired of it.

Tried everything (and more), I was aware of this model issue because I used it before in my other Linux distro (PCLinuxOS) and it works like a charm in that distro.
But NOT in puppy 403 and 404.

When running the livecd Dmesg says model unknown for codec AC883 AND model unknown for codec AC268. When I change the modprobe.conf file model=laptop-eapd (same as I use in PCLinuxOS) and reboot dmesg says model unknown for codec AC268. In other words it recognizes the model for the AC883 codec. The speaker icon appears in the tray, but that's all.
Can't start alsamixer and still no sound!
When changing model to 3stack (for AC268) same story.

Why would it work in PCLinuxOS and not in puppy, I like puppy very much but it would be nicer with sound.

Any other ideas to get the sound working??

alienjeff · Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 2291 Location: Winsted, CT - USA

@Kaljo

Have you used the official release of Puppy version 4.00, and if so, does sound work for you with that version?

kaljo · Joined: 19 Jul 2008 Posts: 4

I'm gonna give that a trie right now, btw just read something about ALSA broken/fix in the developers blog.

I'm gonna logout Vista (ughh) and trie 4.0 get back to you in a min

kaljo · Joined: 19 Jul 2008 Posts: 4

No difference

kaljo · Joined: 19 Jul 2008 Posts: 4

I was to quick to give you an answer, I only looked at the output from dmesg and alsamixer.
When I tried playing a google/youtube video the sound was there!

Only lost my wireless, but using XP drivers with ndiswrapper solved the problem.

When upgrading from 400 to 404 the sound is still there with only one big difference: its half as loud (drop from 100% to 50%) as in 400.

Thanks for your superb idea on this one.

Offtopic: most distros have a button to go directly to the Desktop is this also possible in Puppy or should I open a new thread for this one?

dr_apokalypse · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2

I use an hp dv5. the strings returned by grep
were not listed by op, so I did some research
and this is what I turned up:

My Info:

oldbiker · Joined: 03 Dec 2008 Posts: 1

dr_apokalypse Thanks for your post. It gave me some hope for a while.
I followed up a bit on your SUSE forum lead and found out that the person posting the problem had eventually to add the line "options snd-hda-intel model=hp-m4" to the modprobe.conf file.
I also found out that when I added the options statements to modprobe.conf on my machine, and then ran the puppy alsa wizard, the wizard erased the options statements. I put the statements back in and was able to reboot to restart alsa and the options statements were still in modprobe.conf. Testing the result, however, did not provide any sound.
Also, as could be expected, the IDT company does not provide any LINUX drivers. Meanwhile, back to further searching.

Botanic · Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 241 Location: Toulouse, France

I have an Acer computer with realtek soundcard, i tried the advices of 1st post, but it seems my card isn't detected at all
i don't have /proc/asound/card0, but /proc/asound/cards :

batteryfast · Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 2

I have this typ of dell laptop. However My battery was demaged by my wife when she clear the house. I want to buy new from laptop battery. Is any other cheap online shop?

i386 · Joined: 14 Dec 2008 Posts: 17

Hello, I can confirm Solxyz suggestion that if you have a Realtek ALC268 you need to quote the model number as "acer". I now have sound!

Thanks

rezpup · Joined: 09 Feb 2009 Posts: 1

I have an ACER Aspire One (120G version)
# cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec
Codec: Realtek ALC268

I've added the following line to my /etc/modprobe.conf file

options snd-hda-intel model=acer

Sound works, but when I plug in my headphones, sound still comes out the speaker, is there a something I could do to fix this? - Thanks

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 9679

paullecorde · Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 62 Location: Lexington, KY USA

I have a Compaq Presario C770US laptop. The on-board speakers work correctly. However, the headphones and microphone jacks do not work. When I open zmixer, the master and pcm bars work but the others (cd/line in/mic) do not.

The name of the sound card is a snd-hda-intel card, specifically "Conexant ID 5051 ". This card doesn't seem to have full support with the version of ALSA in Puppy 4.0 (v1.0.14).

I would be willing to give up the on-board speakers to get the headphones and microphone jacks working if there is a simple way to do that. Otherwise, does anyone have suggestions on how to get and install the the version of ALSA which will support all function of this sound card?

Thanks for any suggestions.
Paul

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4422 Location: merriam, kansas

Try this:

Menu>multimedia>alsamixer

left-right arrows select device....up-down arrows for volume
m-key for off-on...tab-key for capture etc.

alsa and sgmixer are linked

rjb

paullecorde · Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 62 Location: Lexington, KY USA

Thanks rjb for the suggestion.

I have tried to adjust alsamixer and zmixer and sgmixer, but still the line and mic tabs don't work and I don't get sound from the jacks.

I have also tried adding options to the /etc/modprobe.conf file like was suggested by rezpup in early posts in this thread. That didn't work either.

Paul