Laptops :: Compaq Armada 1750 - no sound

Yes, well done indeed.
I can see that those BIOS hardware settings could change things dramatically, but I'm surprised (actually confused) that you needed to disable ACPI. This is contrary to what I have seen before.
Are you sure that this was necessary. If you re-enabled ACPI, would sound continue to work?

Well I tried booting DSL today and guess what?

Surprise! My Armada got stuck in the infamous 'Utility Loop' - where it will only boot into the diagnostics partition

After unplugging the mains cable (leaving only the batterypack for power) I went into a FN+F11 frenzy and ended with F1.
Then, boot from the Setup disk again to check the BIOS settings.

No, I haven't tried running without ACPI disabled yet - this thing seems to have a mind of it's own lately and I'll be damned if I'm going to reset/reconfigure the BIOS everytime I boot it up.

Next up: removing WinXP (I can use my other (main) laptop for the Nintendo DS Kiosk thing ;)) and installing DSL.

(ps1: sorry if I sounded a bit harsh there, but lately the trouble with this machine seems to come out of nowhere)
(ps2: that 'nowhere' could well be Windows XP...)

I will keep you posted on my experiences with DSL,

Sleep tight ;)

I have an Armada 1750, and was able to get sound to work by changing only the Audio settings in BIOS and using Haohmaru's sudo commands.

Actually in my case the only BIOS change I made was the IRQ, from "9" to "5".

It may be important that this laptop has never seen XP, only has NT on it (and, of course, my DSL CD!)

hi,

First I want to thank you guys for this wonderful os, the best i've ever seen, the fact that it is so small, in worsk very good on old pc's, and last but not least, it's graphics are better than windows xp pro. (and free!)

So, I'm a noob when it comes to linux so I have a few questions.

First of all, I got the same problem as the other ones here. SOUND, I can't get it to work, i ded the sudo commands, nothing happened. But then i wanted to try to add this:

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so the bios settings, but i can't get into bios, so that's another problem (beware, this is a compaq armada 1700, so the bios is not on a chips, it's on the harddisk).

Then, I have some more problems:

- I installed amsn-094.uci , so that's nice, an msn messinger for linux, but everytime i reboot, it's gone, and i need to click on it n emelfm.bin so it activates again (is it possible to make keep it on active )
-i downloaded openoffice, but then, when i installed it, i can't see any buttons or something like that, who can help me, sry for the noob questions

thanks,

greetings from Belgium

/edit: i found it to launch openoffice, but now, how do i create a shortcut?

Schild & vriend!

Om een dsl-extensie geinstalleerd en al te hebben bij het opstarten moet je het kopieren naar de root van je harddisk/usb-stick (in mijn geval /cdrom = mijn usb-stick) Dan word het automatisch geinstalleerd. Snelkoppeling moet dan ook automatisch verschijnen op je bureaublad! (en ook een snelkoppeling in het menu = rechtermuisknop)
Als je je instellingen binnen een programma wilt opslaan dan moet je meestal een rc-file toevoegen aan de file: /home/dsl/filetool.lst (alle mappen/bestanden die in deze lijst staan worden opgeslagen in het bestand -> /cdrom/backup.tar.gz)

Groeten uit Zutphen

PS: sorry folks for the languages, i am always happy to see a Dutchman/Belgium at the forum.... (i've written down nothing more than most of you already know)

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