I'm new to Puppy and Linux in general, so it is taking some getting used to how certain things are done. I'm used to Windows and consider myself reasonably competent using that, but am no expert either. I have been browsing this forum for a little while but only a few days ago tried to actually use Puppy. Yes, I know 2.13 is old, but I burned the CD a while ago and didn't get around to trying it out until now. I didn't think it'd be an issue...
So basically my situation is that Puppy seems to be mostly working right, except I can't get the sound working. I installed it to a clean hard drive following the various instructions I found and it seems to boot up fine, surf fine, and displays okay (I am typing this in Puppy using Opera right now). Maybe foolishly though, I neglected to test out sound functionality on the Live-CD first....
The computer is an A64 using the Asus K8V-MX board (VIA K8M800 chipset) and I am trying to use the onboard Realtek ALC655 for sound.
I ran the ALSA Sound Wizard and it seemed to autodetect a VIA82xx chip okay (southbridge is a VT8237 according to my manual). It then proceeded to set it up and says it played a sample sound, after which it seemed to think it worked okay, although I heard nothing.
Sound from Gxine, CDs, and on web pages (YouTube) don't work either.
Speakers work okay (tested with portable player), and the motherboard used to be installed with Windows and we were using the onboard sound then, so that should work too. We did have a sound card installed at some point, but I made sure the AC'97 was enabled in BIOS before I started.
I've tried turning up all the volumes/unmuting in alsamixer and that didn't help.
Even though it was crazy I tried selecting "Legacy ISA" in the Wizard just to see what it did, but I cancelled when I saw none of the hardware choices matched.
This is the output of "lsmod":
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Module Size Used by
sr_mod 17412 0
ide_cd 40100 0
cdrom 39424 2 sr_mod,ide_cd
snd_pcm_oss 46336 1
snd_mixer_oss 17328 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_via82xx 27720 2
gameport 14904 1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec 90448 1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_bus 2128 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 77592 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 23540 1 snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 8112 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 24064 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 7996 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 51396 9 snd_pcm_oss, snd_mixer_oss, snd_via82xx, snd_ac97_codec, snd_pcm, snd_timer, snd_mpu401_uart, snd_rawmidi, snd_seq_device
soundcore 9408 3 snd
usb_storage 83904 0
3c59x 43640 0
lp 12520 0
parport_pc 32100 1
parport 35080 2 lp,parport_pc
via_rhine 23416 0
mii 5680 2 3c59x,via_rhine
slamr 434056 0
ungrab_winmodem 2224 0
snd_page_alloc 10008 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
i2c_viapro 8804 0
i2c_core 21408 1 i2c_viapro
amd64_agp 12724 1
agpgart 34608 1 amd64_agp
ehci_hcd 30200 0
uhci_hcd 23356 0
usbcore 126116 4 usb_storage,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
nls_iso8859_1 3984 0
nls_cp437 5648 0
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filename: /lib/modules/2.6.18.1/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko
description: Core sound module
author: Alan Cox
license: GPL
alias: char-major-14-*
vermagic: 2.6.18.1 mod_unload 486 gcc-3.4
Do I have to re-install Puppy after turning PnP OS off?
Should I try turning ACPI off as well? (Tempestuous had said that this shouldn't usually be necessary most of the time....)
The volume control should "ding" when I adjust the volume, right?
I would rather not, but should I re-format everything, try 2.16, and pray that will work?
What now?
Quite honestly I am surprised how much trouble this is giving me, since I am fairly sure that the ALC655 codec and VT8237 chips are common pieces of hardware. Of course it's also likely I've done something wrong or have overlooked something obvious (yes, the speakers are plugged in! ).
Thanks for any replies/further questions.
Brian