No Sound on Dell Laptop

greencroft · 10-16-2009, 11:31 AM

Newbie to DSL. I've installed connected to internet via cisco wireless cad but can't get any sound. The sound is via ES1888 in windows what do I need to work in Linux and how do I set it up

Lordandmaker · 10-16-2009, 11:33 AM

First, we'd need to know which sound chipset you're using. Open up a terminal, enter the following, and paste the output here:

Code:

lspci

greencroft · 10-16-2009, 03:07 PM

Opened terminal and typed lspci. Result shown

00:00 Host Bridge: PicoPower Technology PT86C521 [Vesuvius V1] Host Bridge (rev )
00:06 ISA Bridge: Picopower Technology PT86C523 [Vesuvius V3] PCI-ISA Bridge Slave
00:07 VEA Compatible Controller : Neomagic Corporation NM2070 [Magicgraph 128]
00:08 IDE Interface : Silicon Image, Inc PCI0643

greencroft · 10-16-2009, 03:11 PM

Data from Dell XPI P133ST manual re Sound
Audio
Audio controller ES 1888
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