Neomagic no sound. How to force a driver to load?

[sedlis]

Hi. New to linux. New to puppy. Puppy works nicely but no sound in any application. Im running a compaq presarion 1920 with a neomagic 256 audio card (which is apparently isapnp??)

I go to xproc and find no sound system listed under sound sysem. In xproc advanced, I get messages isapnp scanning and finding my neomagic magic wave sound system card is detected

I also get messages about "limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers" which comes up again a few steps further down when I get in succession:
"Neomagic 256AV/256ZX audio driver 1.1p
PCI found IRQ 10 for device 01:00.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:07.2
NMS256: This doesnt look to me like the AC97-compatible version. You can force the driver to load by passing in the module parameter: force_load = 1


Any hints on what to do here?

The make of your machine: compaq presario 1920.
The amount of RAM (memory) installed: 128 mb.
The CPU (processor) speed 300.
Which version of Puppy you are working with puppy 1.06 i think.

thanks

[tempestuous]

Try -
modprobe nm256_audio

or-
modprobe nm256_audio force_load=1