goofeyfoot wrote:Then I looked at the BIOS sound settings. It had TWO 1869 entries. One was PnP 1869 device and the other was just es1869 without the PnP designation. For sheer horror I disabled the first one.
There seems a contradiction.goofeyfoot wrote:There is nothing to change in bios to "normal" because I never changed anything there. There's nothing I changed in bios at any time.
It seems that Puppy does not recognise your audio hardware. So loading the ALSA driver fails, even though the ALSA driver is correct.goofeyfoot wrote:"function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device."
I believe you have bios and/or ACPI problems. There are various boot parameters which can possibly fix these. Search the forum.