Multimedia :: No Sound, One More Time!



Thank tedmoore99 for the good words.
The correct package is "alsadebs.dsl"
The correct ALSA driver is "es18xx"

Try we to put in order the ideas:

In Linux there are two driver families or types: ALSA and OSS
When boot DSL install by defect and automatically a OSS driver.

But using ISA Plug and Play sound cards, Linux can't assign the resources (dma, irq) automatically and sound driver install fails. Use ALSA or use OSS fails anyway. Really this is very frustrating.

The "normal" ALSA installations on DSL are rare, because if ALSA can be installed without problems mean that also DSL can install the driver OSS without problems automatically and nobody or fews will install ALSA if the sound runs well since the beginning.

At one "normal" ALSA installation, after to do the last step from ALSA Installation (is say, to execute the "ALSA install" script) the sound driver is installed and running.

But your installation is not a "normal" installation, then "ALSA install" script fails and ALSA is not installed totally. Therefore "alsaconf" utility also fails with "aborted" message.

From my tests I do know that can be solved executing the "update-modules" command after to execute "ALSA install" script, so:

sudo su
update-modules
alsaconf
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THIS SEEM A BETTER OPTION:
But besides is possible install a specific driver as "es18xx" version ALSA or version OSS, also many sound card support a standard driver: Sound Blaster ("sb").
The post from the "Jot" and "Jerome" users suggest you to use the driver Sound Blaster so:

modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 isapnp=0

Or you can to do the same so:

sndconfig --noprobe

And choosing the "Sound Blaster Pro" driver.

For both two cases, you must test changing the values for "irq" and "mpu_irq" parameters according to result from "cat /proc/interrupts" command as I explained you on my previous post.
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Please, read also this information:
ESS 1869 Audio Drive
Picollo:
I have spent a very tiring day trying to get my poor old Armada 1750 to work.  I read the articles you directed me to and it looks so easy to hear them tell it.  But alas, I am still soundless.  I even tried to run dsl embedded in WindowsME hoping that I would have sound, no luck and did dsl ever run slow!
I think I will let it go for now.  I read one post where someone said it took a year to get sound - that might be me.
I again want to thank you for your help.  
--Ted
Piccolo:
Maybe I am "cheating," but I loaded vmware on my WinXP machine, downloaded the dsl-2.4-vmx distro, started the vmware player and presto! I had dsl running.  Still did not have sound but I figured out how to change the dsl.vmx config file and sound came up!  I will retire the Compaq Armada 1750 laptop.
Again, thanks for all of your help.  I see your helpful comments all over the forum.  Keep it up!
--Ted
Piccolo:
Maybe I am "cheating," but I loaded vmware on my WinXP machine, downloaded the dsl-2.4-vmx distro, started the vmware player and presto! I had dsl running.  Still did not have sound but I figured out how to change the dsl.vmx config file and sound came up!  I will retire the Compaq Armada 1750 laptop.
Again, thanks for all of your help.  I see your helpful comments all over the forum.  Keep it up!
--Ted
OOPS!  Sent it twice!
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