I have an old laptop A Compaq 1750 and installed the latest Puppy lucid 5.2.8. After making the below manual configurations Alsamixer detects the Es audiodrive 1869. I have unmuted all the available options. All I get from the speakers is a hissing static type sound when I play a sound file.
The Bios sound settings are as follows:
ESS Audio drive, ESS1869, IR number 5, DMA channel 1, DMA channel 5, IO Range 0x220 - 0x022f, IO Range 0x0388 - 0x038b, IO Range 0x0330 - 0x0331
Sound works on Winxp / and over the years I successfully configured sound on ubuntu 7.04/7.10 and tinycore linux
After browsing the forums and trying out suggestions I have the following setup:
Content of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf
alias snd-card-0 snd-es18xx
alias snd-slot-0 snd-es18xx
options snd-es18xx isapnp=0 port=0x0220 dma1=1 dma2=5 irq=5 mpu_port=0x330
I have also the following kernel entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst
pnpbios=off acpi=off
These are turned off as in
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 1865191538
Thanks
SOLVED: Sound on Compaq Armada 1750- ALSA snd-es18xx driver
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SOLVED: Sound on Compaq Armada 1750- ALSA snd-es18xx driver
Last edited by bullterrier on Sat 31 Dec 2011, 21:40, edited 1 time in total.
From menu->help->LupuNews Help
[quote]If no sound, open Menu -> Multimedia Tools -> Alsamixer (alsamixer, not alsawizard). Press F6 and that will show you what sound devices have been detected and configured. If yours is not the top one then arrow down and click it, then make sure everything plausible is turned up. I have to do this with my “second
[quote]If no sound, open Menu -> Multimedia Tools -> Alsamixer (alsamixer, not alsawizard). Press F6 and that will show you what sound devices have been detected and configured. If yours is not the top one then arrow down and click it, then make sure everything plausible is turned up. I have to do this with my “second
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
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Thanks for reply.
1. Ran Alsamixer - pressed F6 - there are 2 entries - on the top it says "default" and the entry below - "0 - ESS Audiodrive ES1869" I selected the ESS Audiodrive entry. I have rebooted and the Sound icon in the taskbar has now disappeared. However Alsamixer still picks up the soundcard
2. Alsa config has been tried and it dosn't work for these non plug and play legacy sound cards built into the motherboard - they have to be manually configured.
Still no sound - just a static type of sound when mp3 or wav files are played.
Thanks any help is appreciated.
1. Ran Alsamixer - pressed F6 - there are 2 entries - on the top it says "default" and the entry below - "0 - ESS Audiodrive ES1869" I selected the ESS Audiodrive entry. I have rebooted and the Sound icon in the taskbar has now disappeared. However Alsamixer still picks up the soundcard
2. Alsa config has been tried and it dosn't work for these non plug and play legacy sound cards built into the motherboard - they have to be manually configured.
Still no sound - just a static type of sound when mp3 or wav files are played.
Thanks any help is appreciated.
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Yes, those boot options are an important start.bullterrier wrote:I have also the following kernel entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst
pnpbios=off acpi=off
These are turned off as in
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 1865191538
But you missed a critical point in that earlier forum thread - the audio (ALSA) settings in /etc/modprobe.d/ often fail to "take" with older ISA-based audio devices.
I suggest you completely delete (or move) /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf
Then reboot.
Now run these 3 commands -
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rmmod snd-es18xx
modprobe snd-es18xx isapnp=0 irq=5 dma1=1
modprobe snd-es18xx isapnp=0 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=5
Launch alsamixer -
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alsamixer
Now try aplay again.
If this all works, you can automate the process from /etc/rc.d/rc.local
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Great - some sound.
Did what you said, unloaded module, and reloaded it gradually.
played sound files found in /root/puppy-reference/audio/ in aplay
all the wav files played perfectly
the mp3 and ogg files sounded awful (like an old 56k modem dailing up)
went into alsamixer.
Turned up all the sliders I could - there are a few duplicated entries (ie. "3d contr" & "Hardware") with no sliders just an "00" in a box above them.
Thanks - what is the next step.
Did what you said, unloaded module, and reloaded it gradually.
played sound files found in /root/puppy-reference/audio/ in aplay
all the wav files played perfectly
the mp3 and ogg files sounded awful (like an old 56k modem dailing up)
went into alsamixer.
Turned up all the sliders I could - there are a few duplicated entries (ie. "3d contr" & "Hardware") with no sliders just an "00" in a box above them.
Thanks - what is the next step.
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WOW!!! Thanks for your help.
Just fired up VLC media palyer, loaded an mp3 and it played perfectly.
Well done puppy! > This 10 year + old laptop now has sound, uses my usb 3g/HSDP modem via usb-modeswitch to connect to the internet. The old wireless card works perfectly. And it has an up to date world class os. It is as fast than it was when it had Windows 95 installed.
Last Question: The sound wigit on the task bar has disappeared. I moved a few files in init.d (10alsa and alsa-restore.conf) when manually configuring my sound over the last few days - Would this have made the sound wigit disappear?
Just fired up VLC media palyer, loaded an mp3 and it played perfectly.
Well done puppy! > This 10 year + old laptop now has sound, uses my usb 3g/HSDP modem via usb-modeswitch to connect to the internet. The old wireless card works perfectly. And it has an up to date world class os. It is as fast than it was when it had Windows 95 installed.
Last Question: The sound wigit on the task bar has disappeared. I moved a few files in init.d (10alsa and alsa-restore.conf) when manually configuring my sound over the last few days - Would this have made the sound wigit disappear?