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Posted: Jan. 07 2006,12:33 QUOTE
I have DSL 2.0 working from CD and USB pendrive on a new Toshiba L25-S119 laptop. The audio device has no name connected with it, and DSL can't recognize it. WinAudit and Win control panel show it as a "Conexant AC-Link". It is supposed to be AC97 compliant. An Ubuntu 5.10 live CD gets sound from it, but the video is scrambled, so there is no way to see what driver it installed. Any help on getting audio from DSL 2.0 would be appreciated. -- Steve
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Posted: Jan. 07 2006,15:42 QUOTE
I have seen this problem with video scrambled on startup. Set the boot screen parms to fb800x600 and it should clear up. Open a terminal and type lsmod to see what Linux drivers install. You can also exit X in DSL to see most of the boot screen. You can exit X from the desktop by right clicking and then scroll down to Exit, then Exit to Prompt. To get back to the Windows manager without changing anything, just type exit.

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Posted: Jan. 07 2006,21:48 QUOTE
Yes, yes! It's working. The ALSA driver was the key . . . it sees the card as "atiixp." There is a series of posts about the order of loading alsa.dsl.info (from MyDSL Multimedia section) and gnu-utils.dsl.info (from the System section). What I found was that I HAD to download ALSA first -- if I did gnu-utils first, then the ALSA download borked with a checksum error.

But, I didn't run ALSA setup until AFTER I had downloaded gnu-utils. Then it worked like a champ. I note also that the sound worked right away, with no reboot specifying "alsa" in the boot parameters. I'll see what happens on the reboot.

Oh, no joy on Ubuntu 5.10 LiveCD. There was no question about screen resolution. Odd that it should fail when 4.10 worked.

Thanks again for your help!
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