I'm working on fresh install of the "puppy" linux distribution (version 2.12) on an older machine, a HP Omnibook 800CT. It is a 166 MHz Pentium with 80M RAM, circa 1998 or so. The machine is distributed with alsa wizard version 1.08, which finds the sound peripheral for the machine (snd-es18xx). /proc/asound/version reports version 1.0.12rc1. /proc/asound/card0 is linked to ES1887. /proc/asound/modules contains snd_es18xx. /proc/asound/pcm includes "ESS AudioDrive ES1887 : playback 2 : capture 1" /proc/asound/cards includes "ESS1887 at 0x220, irq 5, dma1 1, dma2 0" The problem I've found is that applications using the sound interface can neither record nor playback - in both cases no data is transferred. Alsamixer version 1.0.11 appears to control the sound device properly (increasing master volume to maximum makes a hiss begin to appear in the machine's speakers, and increasing the mic gain above about 20% begins to cause feedback.) When I try to use a sound-based application, CPU utilization remains at idle level. I tried arecord -d 3 testfile and it hangs until I manually interrupt it. I tried aplay (followed by one of the .wav files in the distribution - about 4k bytes long), and while aplay reports the type of audio in the file and appears to try to start sound output (a click is hear in the laptop speaker), it then pauses for about 10 seconds then exits. How do I approach troubleshooting this? I have no prior experience with alsa, so perhaps I am missing something obvious. Thanks very much, Dave wb0gaz@xxxxxxxxxxx _________________________________________________________________ Get FREE company branded e-mail accounts and business Web site from Microsoft Office Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050001411mrt/direct/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
