Sound Card

[rmart0729]

Hello,

I'm using UBuntu and XUbuntu and neither will detect my soundcard on my Compaq Presario 1245 laptop. As far as I know the sound card is an ESS 1866 or 1868. I used this nice tool in Puppy Linux called alsa or something like that. This tool could not detect my sound card as PNP but when it searched the legacy sound cards it found my card. I may be wrong but if Puppy Linux can recognize my card shouldn't Ubuntu and XUbuntu? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[dkeav]

hardware, hardware == kernel, distro has no refrence other than whatever the maintainer of the kernel decided to compile in or modularize

in other words, if "puppy" has it and <insert_distro_here> doesnt, then the maintainer of the kernel either didnt see a reason to compile it in, or make a module since not enough users in the core audience require it

easy fix, recompile your kernel with the needed module, but first you might check that the module isnt there and its just not being loaded

hint: find command, in the /lib/modules directory :)

[je_fro]

I'd find the name of the module that puppy used and modprobe it...

[rmart0729]

Hello,

compiling Kernel? Loading modules??? modprobe??? What is all of this and how do I do it? The concept of modprobing the module Puppy Linux used sounds easy enough, but is it? How would I find what it used?

Thanks

[XiaoKJ]

Firstly, use puppy linux to load the system. Then open a command line and type lsmod. Note down anything starting with snd_.

Open Ubuntu, open commandline, and type modprobe snd_<insert whatever module>

I think that should do the trick as je_fro suggested. If the specific driver isn't available for modprobe, you will need to recompile the kernel (which is a bit more troublesome and not explanable in 1 tiny post.

Try reading up on alsa to understand what I mean, and the steps I tell you.

[WhiteKnight]

lsmod would probably list a whole long list of stuff considering everything is autodetected...

i suggest:
lsmod | grep snd

make everything more readable.