!!!!!FIXED!!!No audio from Dell Latitude CPI using Puppy 4.2

[Aitch]

I downloaded the files and rebooted. Not sure what to do now. don't really notice any difference. still no sound. should I run the utility again?

...but I don't know what to do or which/what to run

Here's what works for me:

Download all three of the dot-pets provided above, then install them in the order shown below:

For each one, go

1. Right-click "Download" in the forum dialog box.

2. Open in New Tab.

3. A dialog box willl appear, titled "Opening alsa...pet"
--Left-click "Save it to disk," then "OK"

4. On the first one (choose ALSA-lib-1.0.12rc1.pet), do the following (not necessary on the two others):
--Click "Browse for other folders"
--Click "root" button, then "my-applications", then "Save" (if you are in 2.14 using the jwm windowmanager, you may have to drag the window up a bit to see the "Save" button).

5. On the second two (alsaconf-original.pet and ALSA-utils-1.0.12rc1.pet), just click Save, the dialog box will already point to /root/my-applications.

6. After you download all three, now open a Rox window, go to /root/my-applications, and left-click-and-install them in this order:

ALSA-lib-1.0.12rc1.pet
alsaconf-original.pet
ALSA-utils-1.0.12rc1.pet

7. Menu - Shutdown - Restart X Server.

8. Menu - Utility - rxvt and issue the command

fixmenus

9. Again do Menu - Shutdown - Restart X Server.

Now you can do Menu - Setup - ALSA sound wizard.

I've tried this on a P3 running 2.14 and a P4 running 2.15CE-Final (patched) and it works; the P3 had the can't-find-ESS1868-ISA-card issue, and this cures it. Please note that it does take a few seconds for the "Driver Selection" window to appear, if you don't have a PCI card and choose to "Probe ISA cards."

HTH,
SHS

thread

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 400#110400


SHS had a different sound card, and the .pets maybe earlier?, but what he did, including 'fixmenus', should work for you.....

....then try the new alsa


If you run

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lspci

in a console, it should list your devices to determine if the soundcard is getting recognised

soundcards can be notoriously tricky as many different chipsets were used on the same cards

we need to know exactly what is being seen, if any, as to why its trying to load SB driver - that's a legacy ISA device I think??

post the output of lspci here

did you try the 214x9 by ttuuxxx?

I had a reply from him, -I think he believes sound will be ok, but he's not familiar with your PC and doesn't have one for testing, so, you are his guineapig tester...

Aitch

[Eathray]

I'm gonna try it after work. cool thanks.

[Eathray]

Okay, I followed the directions given to cecil, but no good. the alsaconfig behaved a little differently this time and went directly to asking if I wanted to probe legacy (as apposed to making me select it from a list), so it seems to know what it is now anyway, but still no sound.

I suppose I should ask, how long does it take to probe? It sat there for twenty minutes doing nothing, and the curser doesn't blink as if it were busy. It just seems to get stuck there. Is there a setting in the bios I need to change? there was talk of that in an earlier reply, but I didn't understand it.

Help!

[Eathray]

All it said was:

bash: Ispci: command not found

I have no idea what that means.

[Eathray]

Yah, I tried those files. Those are the ones I had to ask you for the access codes. Didn't get anywhere, but the pet installer ran those instead of me like in the Cecil proceedure I just tried. Not getting anywhere.

[Aitch]

Ah yes lspci won't run in bash, I think

maybe try

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LSPCI=`which lspci`
g++ -DLSPCI="$LSPCI" ...

don't know - something I found on a LQ fedora thread...supposed to search path/files for lspci location, I think

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... th-342106/

did you try the 214x9 by ttuuxxx?

I had a reply from him, -I think he believes sound will be ok, but he's not familiar with your PC and doesn't have one for testing, so, you are his guineapig tester... Wink

???

Aitch

[Eathray]

The only difference is that the number symbol changed to a greater-then symbol. It made no reply.

Also, I installed those two files from ttuuxxx, but nothing happened. However, it wasn't a manual install like the reply to Cegil showed. Pet installer prompted me on the install, so I let it. That's it. nothing.

[Eathray]

Puppy doesn't like me.

[Eathray]

The bios says that my audio controller is Crystal, even though I know the device is legacy with a soundblaster driver. Does that mean anything?

[Aitch]

Eathray

found this for the crystal cs4232 [though it was for a slightly different pc

added "modprobe -v cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0" to line 138 of /etc/rd.1/rc.local0 for full soundcard support. (yep!)

another possibilty is CS4237B

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=853

here's alsa info, bit deep though....

http://www.sabi.co.uk/Notes/linuxSoundALSA.html

Other than that, I'm pretty much out of ideas.....back to PM tempestuous, I'm afraid

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/privms ... post&u=217

Aitch

[Eathray]

I have never added code to a program before. what would I be adding this code to? Just stick it in the consule? I see a rout that starts with etc. Where is that?

Remember, I'm a dunce when it comes to linux. This is my first serious attempt, and I probably need you to go ahead and state the obvious.

[Eathray]

Okay, I pasted some code into that local file and now I'll see...

[Eathray]

I found the specified file, tried the two different bits of code, didn't work. Fudge.

[Bligh]

I have one box with a 24bit sb card , sound only works on Lighthouse pup 301g which defaults to kde desktop. I haven't tried changing desktops to see if sound works in jwm.
Cheers

[Aitch]

Earthray

I overlooked an important tip from tempestuous, I saw in another thread

You may have overlooked the most important preparatory step: set your bios for "PnP OS = NO".
This is very very important for getting ISA devices to play well in Linux.

from that same thread, seems aclowery got sound working on a dell cpi d266xt, don't know if this is the same model you have?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 4&start=30

HTH

Aitch

[Eathray]

I'm going to check it out. can you tell me what it means?

[Eathray]

I don't know what it is. Is it called something different in dell A12 bios?

Any way, I can't find anything called pnp. If you can tell me what it is and what it does, I can probably find something out about it at the dell forum.

[Eathray]

apparently later bios don't need this option since microsoft says starting with win2k windows will run with pnp set either yes or no, so they simply don't ask the question in my bios (a12).

[Aitch]

aha, what windoze says and does is not really appropriate to linux

pnp is plug & play [often called plug & pray as it fails as often as it works]

you should set it for off

maybe also if you see acpi, a power management option, set that to off, too

did you try ttuuxxx's 214xx yet? see my posts for link

Aitch

[Eathray]

My bios does not give me an option to set pnp, unless it's being called something else and I don't recognize it, but I don't think it's there.

I tried ttuuxxx's 214 programs, but nothing.

Power management: I'll check that one tonight after work.

What do you think about trying to use a wrapper like wine?