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HII I UNSTALL puppy and i have no sound:
i tray trow puppy setup but it dont work

i tray to find the driver name but it dosent show on the datashit of my computer.

there is somthing on my bios like: i/o port and irq

plase help me

From a Google search I think your laptop has the ESS ES1878 chipset, which is similar to the ES1879 chipset in my Sony PCG-505TS laptop (Pentium1-300).
These are on the ISA bus, and are not auto-detected.

First reset all bios settings to defaults. While in bios, also change "PnP OS" to "NO" if possible.
Now run the ALSA configuration wizard (alsaconf) and select the legacy "es18xx" driver (which is actually the ALSA snd-es18xx module).

If still no sound, you may require the special workaround that I needed, to force the snd-es18xx driver to accept the correct DMA values. I described this workaround in June 2006 here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=8816

i did what you say,and when i play mp3 the computer freeze

i tray to reboot now

ok i see the volume now,when i tray to play mp3 it show the time but i dont hare enithing

another thing,i can speek to the mic and here sound

thenks

what value i need to put in /etc/modprobe.conf

alias snd-card-0 snd-es18xx
alias sound-slot-0 snd-es18xx
options snd-es18xx irq=? dma?=? dma?=?

?

yessss it work

i just install the es 16xx from the setup


now i have sound but the sound is cut all the time

it is because the old computer??

Those resource values should be listed in your bios, but the following values seem to be quite common -
irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=5

And don't forget to add the "isapnp=0" parameter to your options line. This will stop the snd-es18xx driver from auto-detecting your resource values, which is important since this function is known to fail with early ESS chipsets.

Are you using gxine? I think that gxine will be far too "heavy" for a 150MHz CPU.
Even XMMS may be too big.
I recommend the commandline mp3 audio player, madplay, which Puppy already contains.
And you can install a simple gui for madplay called "xhippo" from here -
http://puppyfiles.org/dotpupsde/dotpups ... 3-gtk2.pup

Read about xhippo, madplay, and lamip here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=10722

erez1012 wrote:i just install the es 16xx from the setup

Apparently you have an older ESS chipset than I thought.
For the sake of accuracy, the option you have chosen will be "es1688", which is the ALSA snd-es1688 driver.