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Thanks for the ideas, shanenin If Mandriva doesn't work with sound I may go back to Mandrake 10.1. I'm hoping the CDs come today.

Thanks, but, modprobe on snd-cs4232 didn't work, I got a fatal error, no such device. Maybe Mandriva will find this old ISA device.

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lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted autofs4 8756 1 (autoclean) af_packet 13448 0 (autoclean) agpgart 38296 0 (unused) cs4232 3652 0 ad1848 20812 0 [cs4232] uart401 6052 0 [cs4232] sound 55276 0 [cs4232 ad1848 uart401] soundcore 3428 4 [sound] 3c59x 25936 1 serial 52004 0 (autoclean) usb-uhci 21868 0 (unused) usbcore 57472 1 [usb-uhci] apm 9768

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Nope, no output listed when alsa re-starts. I knew it probably wasn't going to work as the volume icon wasn't dispayed as it is on my other Ubuntu box when my Dell re-booted. I even tried using /alsactl store to store my alsa settings. That didn't work either. Not a big deal. Mandriva might work. If not I just have to come to the realization that this hardware is getting too old to run the newer distros.........yet another excuse to buy a new unit If Mandriva doesn't find my sound card I'll probably put Ubuntu back.

Yeah, that's what I thought I was supposed to run. I thought for a moment that I had missed a "load module" command. I did run the commands exactly as you listed them as root. Didn't work. Good idea though. Thanks for the suggestions.

No, I didn't get any error codes, I just used the code you listed. I may have forgotten to load the module. When I typed restart alsa it shut down alsa and re-started it. I don't remember loading the module. btw, what's the command for that? Thanks.

Nope, you're not being pushy at all; thank you for your helpful suggestions:-) I'm expecting the Mandriva CDs tomorrow (I hope). I've found that Red Hat products are very good at finding legacy hardware. Ubuntu is also exceptional at finding hardware.

Thanks, that was a good idea. I logged on as root; I was able to shut down alsa and restart it. Just for good measure I re-booted the computer, but, no sound. It was worth a shot though. I'll try Mandriva as soon as it arrives, hopefully tomorrow.

Yes, Mandrake 10 and 10.1 are both running the 2.6 kernel and so is Mandriva 2005. If Mandriva has pulled the sndconfig utility I'm open for hacking my unit. That'd be fun:-) hitest

Plll or is that a pll ? I thought pllls were much faster then 500mhz. Do you by any chance have the model number available, I am curious to see what I can find on the soundcard. Does sound work with knoppix? Hi shanenin, Yep, it's a Plll 500 MHz Dell Optiplex GX1. Yes, sound works with Knoppix 3.3, but, not with Knoppix 3.7 strangely enough. Sound works on this unit with Red Hat 9, Mandrake 10, 10.1. I'll be trying Mandriva this week. I'm hoping that Mandriva still has sndconfig on it.

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Hi shanenin, Yes, I noticed that my sound card wasn't listed as well. Oh well. I'll post here again when I try Mandriva. Mandrake products in the past have had a good track record of finding ancient hardware......we will see:-) This should be a fun experiment.

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Hey Chappy, You're not ranting at all, man! Your post is clear and thoughtful. It's good to meet another poster from the old TTV days before everything went to he** at G4. I will post over at G4 when I'm feeling particularly masochistic, but, not that frequently; that's a hurting place. I'm happy you're here helping the good people at this board. Stay well;-) hitest:-)

/sbin/lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03 ) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:0f.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 03) 00:11.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclon

just curious, did you mess with alsamixer at all? If you played a song, did it seem to play, but without volume, was not complaining of missing devices? I had a little trouble with alsa and ubuntu. I ended up solving the problem by using alsamixer(installed by default), and muted all channels execpt master and pcm. One of the other channels seemed to be blocking my sound, by muting it my sound just started to work. No, no problems with alsa at all. Alsa works just fine for one of my computers. However, on my old Plll 500 Dell the only sound configuration software that'll identify my sound

I agree with shanenin. At some point you have to take the leap of faith and install Linux to your hard drive. Linux is a very stable, robust operating system. It is my OS of choice. Once you start using the penguin you will never look back. Yep, GO FOR IT

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Hi tictoc, Yes, I think I've had one or two dependency issues with Ubuntu, nothing too major yet. I think it was when I decided to opt for the KDE desktop, then I had some dependency issues (I had dependency issues with Quanta I recall). I decided to re-install and go with the stock Gnome install and everything so far seems to work okay. I used synaptic last night to download some KDE games and it seemed to go okay. Maybe it's optimized for Gnome?! Or I could have borked up my KDE install. I'm mostly happy with it except that sound doesn't work for Ubuntu on one of my Linux boxes. I'm goi

Congratulations! I've been lucky with SP2 so far too. I've updated my XP box at home and at work. So far everything works just fine

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