Multimedia :: No Sound, One More Time!



Hi tedmoore99
Gooood, I never will play cards with you. You have circumvented the audio Linux driver using the emulator.
However on a newer computer DSL not would have audio problems and you can try it running DSL from LiveCD so the information on hard disk will remain unaffected.
Thanks you sincerely for appreciate my help.
FYI, I googled Compaq Armada 1750 knoppix and also Compaq Armada 1750 linux
and came up with some interesting info.

First, there is some BIOS info with your laptop sound device:

http://www.fuschlberger.net/armada/

then some "modprobe" commands to launch sound:

http://www.leuf.net/ww/wikidn?CompaqArmada1750LinuxNotes

There was some other sites with information but I thought these ones would be a good start.
THE LAST WORD (I PROMISE)
In one last effort to tackle the Armada 1750 no-sound problem, I downloaded and installed DSL-N (with the 2.6.11 kernel).  While it didn't find my sound card automatically, I was able to enter the "modprobe sb io=0x230 irg=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330" entry and then tried "tone://1000" in the xmms player and what do you know, I heard sound!

So, apparently dsl-2.4 doesn't install what I needed even when I tried to download it.  I never could get the "sb" driver to load.

So now I am ready to end this post and I will mark the first entry as closed.  Thanks Forum
--Ted
I just want to add that in extreme cases of not being able to get sound to work, there is a little USB sound adapter called a "Sound Fairy" which is actually a C-Media chip in a USB plug case. It is recognized and works on all versions of DSL and every other distribution I have tried for that matter. I bought it for $7.00 on ebay.
The sound from it is  obviously better than the onboard sound from the mini-itx boards and the three laptops I tried it on.
THE "LAST" LAST ENTRY IN THE ARMADA 1750 SAGE:
I knew that since so many people have been able to get the sound card ESS1869 working, that somehow I must be at fault.  After being able to install DSL-N and getting the sound to work, I came back for one more attempt.
Someone had given me the following modprobe entry:
"modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 isapnp=no"
When entered that way the modprobe would fail and I'd get errors
On a whim I tried it without the "isapnp=no" entry and to my surprise it worked.
So I am here to tell my fellow forum freaks - The Armada 1750 has sound on the dsl-2.4.26 kernel
While I was away I played around with Kubuntu 6.06.  The KDE system seems pretty neat but I felt encumbered with how large the system was.  It just wasn't as nimble as dsl.  So I am back.
--Ted
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