How to add ALSA to Puppy 1.0.4 HD install

[Guest]

Thanks, MU

That solved the problem and taught me something new as well.
Keep up the great work.

[cygnus]

If anyone still has it, I need alsa-oss.pup. I ran the alsacore .pup and I have sound, but not in every program. I installed RealPlayer (I need it for school) and I get video but no sound. The README says ALSA wasn't included in the build, just OSS. I'm guessing that if I had OSS emulation for ALSA, all the programs that use OSS will be able to run with sound.

[Flash]

I entered alsa-oss in the forum search and found this.

[cygnus]

I tried that before, but when I click the link to download the .pup, it says the attachment no longer exists. jcoder removed the attachment at some point, saying it didn't appear to be necessary. I think I need it for mine to work properly, and I wanted to know if anyone still had it available.

[jcoder24]

Re-uploaded alsaoss.pup and edited the link referred to by flash to point it.

[cygnus]

Thank you, I'll install it when I get a chance and let everyone know if it solved my problem.

[cygnus]

I still don't have sound with all my applications. I installed the alsa-oss DotPup and re-ran alsaconf, but it didn't make a difference.

What exactly does alsa-oss.pup do? What changes does it make to the configuration? Is there anything I have to do to make OSS emulation work? I don't mind editing conifg files if I have to, I just want to get sound to work across the board.

Just to give a run-down, I can mix audio with Snack mixer and listen to CDs with Snack (I think that's what it is) CD player (it's the very simple CD player). MPlayer, Xine, and RealPlayer don't have sound. I haven't tried any other multimedia programs besides these. I'm running 1.0.7 with both alsa .pups installed. I have an ES1869 sound card on an old Compaq lappy.

Any insights or advice would be appreciated. If anyone needs more info from me, let me know.

[Flash]

Puppy 2a's alsa works for me right out of the box. Have you tried booting a Puppy 2a live CD, just to see what happens?

[cygnus]

Right now, I'm booting Puppy using the Windows 98 method (not that it matters for this). I'm just worried about booting into Puppy 2 and it screwing up my current settings saved in my pup001 file.

[Flash]

This is from Barry's release notes for Puppy 2a in the Feb. 13th entry on Barry's News page:

There is currently no upgrade mechanism for an existing "pup001" file. Puppy2 creates a file with a different name, pup_save.3fs, so there should be no clash.

If you try Puppy 2a and it doesn't work, just delete the pup_save.3fs file it created.

[cygnus]

I finally got a chance to download and burn Puppy2a, and when I ran it, it did the same thing as 1.0.7. I'm going to start a new thread in the Bugs section to see what can be done about this.