Thanks for the suggestion but no luck. The dmesg output is 323 lines long so I'll refrain from posting it all here ;-) I tried both your suggestions for boot parameters anyway, neither caused a change. The dmesg output contained another suggestion - probably equivalent to yours - that I also tried: ...

I pulled the CMOS battery (and also the main battery just be sure there was no power anywhere while working on it. The BIOS was definitely reset. I booted Puppy without even setting the time in the BIOS, using the boot parameter pci=biosirq appended to the kernel boot string in Grub. No audio. cat /...

Unfortunately yes. I tried the boot parameter first enterring it on the kernel boot line as the Grub menu came up. After that didn't make a difference I editted the grub file to make the change 'permanent' and tried again. i.e got two or three tries at it so not much likelihood of mistyping. I'll tr...

I don't wish to seem ungrateful regarding the help but I had already downloaded and searched all those manuals for a BIOS reset method and found none. It does cover flashing a BIOS but I hesitate to download and flash a completely new BIOS, blowing away a known working one, on a system that is not m...

Your IRQ results tell the sad story. Indeed. I think its time I just said "thanks very much for all the help". You have been a huge help as I am not that familiar with Linux and have learned where to find some useful bits along the way. Thanks. For information of later visitors to this th...

That works and thanks. (I thought I had posted a reply to this already but it seems to have disappeared.) also would you post the specs of your PC, I would be interested to know the lower limits of this package. Del Latitude 510, 128 Mb RAM, 1GHz cpu, large slow disk. It runs reasonably on small fil...

I'm a little out of depth here but it looks to me like there's nothing set up for the audio. If so, it could be that it not only needs an IRQ but also some buffers to be established. CPU0 0: 1044014 XT-PIC-XT timer 1: 91 XT-PIC-XT i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC-XT cascade 3: 4 XT-PIC-XT 4: 4 XT-PIC-XT 5: 4237 XT...

Thanks - that works.

I'm running a full install of Puppy 4.2.1 on a rather old and small system but decided to give oxygenoffice a try on it. Downloaded and installed oxygenoffice301_420.sfs. (I had a bit of a problem with sfs not being recognized but sidestepped that by using Pet_Maker to convert and install it as a .p...

Thanks for the rapid response. Basically still no luck. BootManager did not show the snd-intel8x0m anywhere so I proceeded to the next step. Deleted the snd-sb16 ALSA stuff and rebooted. Ran the ALSA wizard and, as before, it failed to detect anything in the first part. When allowed to search legacy...

[Originally posted incorrectly to the http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=45234 thread.] Trying to set up an old Dell Latitude C510/C610 for a friend. Cleaned down the laptop almost to bare metal and did a full install of Puppy 4.2.1 to HDD using the live CD distribution 4.2.1-k2.6.25.1...

Aitch: Thanks for the response. At least I now know what I'm supposed to be looking for. Unfortunately I can't seem to find anything like it in ALSA. Could you provide a few more clues? (Its been twenty years since I last used UNIX and it was always a 2nd system even then.) I'm pulling up the ALSA S...

Thanks for the explanation. As I said earlier, my UNIX is very rusty so I may be misinterpreting. I do not think the .sfs was being mounted in my case because if I located it in the file manager and clicked on it I _then_ got a message at that time that it was now mounted. Since my earlier posting, ...

Caveat - I'm brand new to Puppy and haven't used UNIX in twenty years! I installed Puppy 4.2.1 from the ISO download called 4.2.1-k2.6.25 onto a an old Dell laptop which I took down to almost bare metal. (It has a small FAT primary partition left at the beginning of the HDD with a few Dell/Windows f...

If you do resolve this problem please post the answer. I am trying to set up a Dell Latitude C510 laptop for a friend and find that it's sound card/chipset is also not being recognized. As I do not have any documentation on this I'm not even sure what chipset it's using. [It would be helpful if any ...