I'm a newbie and need help with no sound on my laptop. I have a Dell 1200 laptop and I'm running Puppy 5.2.8 from a USB flash drive. Where do I go in menu to setup sound? Do I need to download a driver from Dell?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
No Sound
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trader1mds
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trader1mds
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Try this:
[quote]Sound muted on boot.
Right-click the speaker icon in the system tray and choose Full Window. Enable Master, PCM, Front and any others that seem likely and also turn up the volume in each. This should fix things a good percentage of the time. If not, then please try Menu -> Setup -> Alsa Sound Wizard.
If no sound,
open Menu -> Multimedia Tools -> Alsamixer (alsamixer, not alsawizard). Press F6 and that will show you what sound devices have been detected and configured. If yours is not the top one then arrow down and click it, then make sure everything plausible is turned up. I have to do this with my “second
[quote]Sound muted on boot.
Right-click the speaker icon in the system tray and choose Full Window. Enable Master, PCM, Front and any others that seem likely and also turn up the volume in each. This should fix things a good percentage of the time. If not, then please try Menu -> Setup -> Alsa Sound Wizard.
If no sound,
open Menu -> Multimedia Tools -> Alsamixer (alsamixer, not alsawizard). Press F6 and that will show you what sound devices have been detected and configured. If yours is not the top one then arrow down and click it, then make sure everything plausible is turned up. I have to do this with my “second
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
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YaPI(any iso installer)
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trader1mds
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Alsa mixer doesn't show any sound devices and there isn't a speaker icon in the tray. I installed Zorin os 5 lite on a flash drive and sound works fine with it.
I tried the devices listed in Alsawizard with no luck. I'm going to try running puppy from a live cd and see what happens.
Thanks for the response,
Mike
I tried the devices listed in Alsawizard with no luck. I'm going to try running puppy from a live cd and see what happens.
Thanks for the response,
Mike
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trader1mds
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Update to no sound...I installed 5.2.8 to a new flash drive and the sound is working. Must have been a problem with the ISO burn or defect in the flash drive.
FYI...I'm experimenting with several Linux distros, (Zorin os Lite, Antix) and so far Puppy is my favorite! The fact that Puppy already has the b43 broadcom driver installed is a big plus.
Mike
FYI...I'm experimenting with several Linux distros, (Zorin os Lite, Antix) and so far Puppy is my favorite! The fact that Puppy already has the b43 broadcom driver installed is a big plus.
Mike
