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[speck]

hi, this is my first post here.

I have a Compaq computer that has a Pentium II in it with 128m of ram.
I have installed puppy 5.2.8, and so far all is good except the sound.
I can't get any music to play, whether a cd or mp3's that are on the HD.
When I try to run the alsamixer, it briefly pops up then disappears.

I know the sound card works because I had window 98 on this computer
before and the sounds played ok then.

When I run pcd - CD - audio player, the list of tracks load in in the
pcd display list, ( the field shows track1 ... then track2 ... track3...etc )
then when I highlight track 1 and hit the arrow to play, the tacks get listed again 1 after the other.

Can anyone give me a clue as to what to check on?

Thanks

[Semme]

Hi speck- Welcome! Can you tell us whether sound worked when you ran Pup before the install?

[speck]

I can't remember if it worked when I ran it off the .iso that I used briefly before the install to the HD. I know the sound did work on the Win 98 that was on a HD that was in the computer before I installed puppy.

The little system "beep" sound works though. This ( I think ) is part of
the bios or something, I don't think it has anything to do with the puppy os.
I have dosemu ( DOS emulator ) installed on puppy, and it works ok and when the DOS emulator runs ( it brings up a old windows type prompt screen ) you can hear the beep sound when anything is entered into the DOS console .

[Semme]

Try the disk again and when the Pup screen arrives, you type: puppy pfix=ram

Confirm whether sound works here, both those mp3's and any audio disks you have lay'n around.

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If there was no sound by the time you return, run from the console: lspci | grep -i audio

.. then post the output with your reply.

[speck]

I could not get the sound to work after booting the .iso disk and typing puppy pfix=ram in the console. So I rebooted using the HD and tried to type the command into a terminal and it said "command could not be found"

I did run the alsaconfig for the sound cards and after it searched it printed out this:

[Semme]

OK. Now that your modules out in the open- relax. I'll leave it for one of the hw boys to follow up.

Or, try with the first one. Whether it'll have to be manually loaded is speculation on my part.

[speck]

wow, I selected the first one and it configured and asked if I wanted to test it and I clicked "Yes", the the dog bark sound came on.

Now I am running a mp3 I have on the HD and it is playing.

Thanks!
I will run it through its paces on the other stuff ( CD player etc ) and see
how everything else works out.

[Semme]

Oh GREAT! There ya go.. HEY! Don't be afraid to experiment when it comes to these sort of things- Pup's game!

[speck]

it plays CD's also.
I am now going to try to figure out what Linux command I can run that will
turn the little internal speaker off and on. When I run dosemu ( DOS emulator ) and I type anything anything into the console, the speaker beeps.
It beeps after every character typed. ( I use DOS to run a window program that is strickley all text, no graphics to do calculations, but the constant beeping after anything input will make me have to disable the speaker if I can't find a way to shut it off )

[Semme]

Use pfind and check if there's a "dosemu.conf" file in one of dosemus`directories. If yes, attach a copy with your reply.

Maybe a longshot but, try this in a terminal: xset b off

.. then go type.

[speck]

I found 4 files that appear to be configuration files.
Two are the autoexec.bat and config.sys files I think that normally appear in the C: directory on DOS, and two more. One is called dosemurc and the other is global.conf
They were both in the dosemu/conf directory

dosemurc and global.conf are huge, I can post them if you want.
I tried to attach dosemurc and I received the message that the extension was not allowed.
here is the autoexec.bat file

[Semme]

I forgot to mention any attachments would have to first be gzipped. Try the xset thing for the moment.

[speck]

tried xset but it didn't work

[speck]

here is the dosemurc and the global.conf found in the conf directory
It looks like everything in dosemurc is commented out though.

( these were gz'ed using Ubuntu 10.10, machine I am on now, the Compaq has a phone line modem, don't think it will work anyway as it , I believe, is a winmodem )

[Semme]

You've got a file in /etc named "inputrc" and it might look like my screenie.

Throw this line: set bell-style none on the end, save and reboot.

Make sure it has a numbered "empty line" on the end before saving.

I'll take a peek in the meantime..