Anyhows my problem is the following, I have a DFI LANPARTY UT Ultra-D motherboard, which is based on the nFORCE4 chipset from nVIDIA. According to the DFI site the motherboard uses a Realtek Karajan Audio (AC97 ALC850 chipset) module. Unforetunatly I can't get it working in Puppy (1.08R1).
I've read previous posts on the forum, one topic suggested using a soundcore.o.gz and nvsound.o.gz driver that was supplied inside that topic (files and instructions by tempestuous). This does bring up sound for me, but it's interrupted every second by a second of silence. I continued to the nVIDIA site to check the known problems with the Linux drivers, it said something about booting with ACPI turned off. I tried this, but my problem continued to excist.
When installing the nvsound.o.gz driver from the topic is previously mentioned I did get the following warning.
I'm not sure however if that could be causing the sound errors, and I don't have a clue whatsoever on how to fix this error.# insmod /root/my-applications/nvsound.o.gz
Warning: /root/my-applications/nvsound.o.gz symbol for parameter vapu_enable not found
Warning: loading /root/my-applications/nvsound.o.gz will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA
See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
Module nvsound loaded, with warnings
So to make a long story short, I was hoping if some of the more experienced Puppy/Linux users could give me some pointers on how to fix this problem.