Page 1 of 1
No Sound from Realtek ALC887 in Puppy 4.2.1 (Solved)
Posted: Tue 23 Sep 2014, 20:43
by Mr. Hughes
I just built a new computer and can't get Alsa to detect my Realtek ALC887 onboard audio. Is there a driver somewhere that I need for this old puppy?
Re: No Sound in Puppy 4.2.1
Posted: Tue 23 Sep 2014, 23:43
by darry1966
Mr. Hughes wrote:I just built a new computer and can't get Alsa to detect my Realtek ALC887 onboard audio. Is there a driver somewhere that I need for this old puppy?
Have you enabled onboard sound. Check and then use the alsa wizard.
Posted: Wed 24 Sep 2014, 05:45
by Mr. Hughes
The sound is enabled in bios, it works fine in win 7. This is a dual boot machine. The Alsa wizard finds nothing. I don't think this old kernel has support for this new sound chip.
Posted: Wed 24 Sep 2014, 17:30
by ardvark
Mr. Hughes wrote:The Alsa wizard finds nothing. I don't think this old kernel has support for this new sound chip.
Hi...
That's probably a safe assumption. You could try running the newest version of Precise or Slacko (or even Fatdog) and see if you can confirm this.
Regards...
Posted: Wed 24 Sep 2014, 22:46
by Mr. Hughes
Sound works great in Puppy Precise 5.7.1, now I just need to figure out how to get it to work in Puppy 4 series.