Puppy went mute.

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bowserevilking
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Puppy went mute.

#1 Post by bowserevilking »

Right, so my little brother was playing I Wanna Be the Guy on wine, and now my Version 4.3.1 Puppy won't play sounds at all. It's not just wine, nothing will make any sounds. My little brother says it just stopped playing sounds in the middle of his game. Neither the ALSA wizard or the multiple sound card wizard do anything to help. I am not sure if the speaker conked out or something, but the ALSA wizard throws up some error too fast for me to read when it tries the sample sound (the woof, woof thing). I use Puppy for the internet and multimedia stuff mainly, so I would like this fixed fast please. :cry:
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#2 Post by Béèm »

Maybe run setup|alsa sound wizard
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#3 Post by rcrsn51 »

Boot off the Live CD using the "puppy pfix=ram" option. Do the audio setup again. That should determine if the problem is hardware or software.
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#4 Post by bowserevilking »

Okay, I booted into ram, and the sound sample worked. I'd say that makes this a software problem. I also tried the "setup|alsa sound wizard" thing, but the terminal says it can't find setup or ALSA. So, any fixes? :cry:
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#5 Post by bowserevilking »

Wait, wait, wait! Sorry for the double post, but the sound works again! I tried the ALSA sound wizard after I rebooted, and the sample played! I am not sure what happened though, as I had rebooted and used ALSA twice before, to no avail. :? Anyone know what happened?
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#6 Post by Béèm »

Difficult to say.
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#7 Post by bowserevilking »

Difficult to say.
Ah, well. Thanks anyway. My Puppy can speak again, yay!
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#8 Post by cthisbear »

Sometimes when there's no sound on a Puppy I
just open the zmixer...nothing else..and the sound works.

Chris.
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