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Topic: HOW-TO: Dell Latitude XPi CD, Installing DSL 2.0 on a Dell Latitude

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Da Vince

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Posted: Dec. 12 2005,20:02

BarkingOwl thanks, it works well,
only I got no music out of the Dell Latitude XPi CD.
the soundcard is not working.
Is it the same on your laptop?

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Posted: Dec. 12 2005,21:20

Da Vince,

I don't know if I have that problem (yet). The sound board in my laptop was bad to begin with. However, I managed to find another XPi for free (bad screen, no battery, no HD) and I am going to attempt to swap out the sound card and see if I can get it working.

Fingers crossed, if I get it installed I'll post any additional steps to get it working in DSL.

Cheers!

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Posted: Dec. 14 2005,16:16

Update on my efforts to get the sound to work.

I got the sound board swapped out without too much of a headache.

I tried the sound configuration steps from this thread, but did not have any success. You may want to try it out and see if you can get it to work. Note that the sound card in my laptop is an ESS 1888 (you may have an 1887 or 1688). The sb (soundblaster) module is supposed to work with these boards. Didn't work for me.

Next stop: ALSA. I will try installing the ALSA drivers and getting it to work that way (seems to have a good success rate).

Cheers!

Da Vince

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Posted: Dec. 15 2005,12:39

No I did try it, without success
I’m not giving up.
It is a Dell Lat..XPi CD P150ST

Audio controller:*

Latitude XPi CD M166ST and Latitude XPi CD M133ST

ESS 1887
ESS 690 wavetable music synthesizer
ESS 938 3D audio spatializer (on systems using Windows 95)

Latitude XPi CD P150ST

ESS 1888
ESS 690 wavetable music synthesizer
ESS 938 3D audio spatializer (on systems using Windows 95)
Audio type SoundBlasterPro-compatible 3.01 voice and music functions
Stereo 16-bit (analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion)
FM music synthesizer 20-voice, 72-operator
Interfaces internal ISA bus;
external stereo line-in (minijack, stereo);
external microphone-in (minijack, mono);
external headphones/speakers-out (minijack, stereo)
Speakers (4) 8-ohm speakers
Internal speaker amplifier 1 W into 8 ohms mono
Headphones amplifier 150 mW into 32 ohms stereo
Controls volume can be controlled with key combinations, software applications menus, the Speaker window in the Dell Control Center, and the System Setup program
* The device driver for ESS 1887 audio controller is compatible with the ESS 1888 audio controller. However, the device driver for the ESS 1888 audio controller is not compatible with the ESS 1887 audio controller.

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Posted: Dec. 19 2005,19:59

Grrrr... Beat my head over the weekend working on this. Genius that I am, I tried doing it the hard way. Tried downloading the ALSA source and compiling -- needed gcc, so went to get it installed... long story short, I put a bunch of crap on my system and never got the sound to work.

Going to start over with a clean install and try doing it the easy way with the MyDSL extension for ALSA. See this thread for details. Also might want to read over the Installing MyDSL Extensions wiki.

Cheers!

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