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MX372:
Hello all,

Recently decided to try out CorePlus v5.4 on a 10-year-old Sony VAIO VGN-T150 (Pentium M 1.1 ghx/512mb RAM/4gb CF card as HDD). Installed ok, seems really fast for the most part.

I installed FF, Flash 11, VLC, MC, PCManFM, alsamixer, and a few other extensions.

I seem to have no sound. No sound in VLC, no sound in FF on YT. I have the Sony boot sound when it first boots, but that's about it.

Since I'm really not that familiar with the CL in Linux, and have been using mostly LXLE 12.05 on this machine (when it had a 40gb HDD installed), I'm really not sure what to do next. I did run alsamixer and adjusted the sliders (they were all at zero), but that did nothing.

So, any help with fixing this issue would be appreciated.

Also, please steer me in the right direction to getting up to speed on the CLI and Linux in general, anything I can read online or whatever to learn, besides using Google (what helped you in your early days of Linux newbiness?). I downloaded the book "Into the Core" and am reading that for now.

My goal is to 1) continue to use this ancient beast (it was an ultrabook in it's day, after all) as long as I can, and 2) get the same level of functionality out of TC as I had in LXLE (obviously, with less eye candy). If I can't, then I'll go back to LXLE and just deal with the performance hit that running a larger distro has.

That means I need to be able to easily (preferably with the GUI):

1. view the contents of removable media
2. find and install new applications (or extensions, as they are called in TC)
3. browse the web and watch YT videos (wirelessly, of course)
4. complete basic wordprocessing, spreadsheet, etc (Office) tasks
5. check email
6. print wirelessly to my HP printer
7. view and edit pictures
8. burn CD/DVD's and watch DVD's

I want to learn, so I don't mind having to do things in the CL; I just am not familiar enough with it to get far on my own.....

Thanks!

gerald_clark:
Start with the book. ( link is on top of home page. )

core-user:
I used RUTE to help me in my early days.
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

beerstein:
Hi:
There is some info here on the forum. Just google "tiny core linux alsa sound" keywords.Start with installing alsa and alsa-config. and try to play a test sound file (.wav) format.
$ aplay soundfile.wav
there is also a speker-test, just type:
$ speaker-test -h
to see the options
alsa.tcz gives you alsamixer too. Try to start alsamixer and see wheter main and/or pcm have sound levels selected.
Lok for the alsasound file in /usr/local/etc/init.d/ folder.
This file is in the same folder where cups and openssh are located.
Download a sample .wav file from the net, there are many out there

keep me posted about your progress.

Misalf:
There have been some posts about ALSA not working in recent versions of Core, where all that was needed was  alsa-config.tcz  to be loaded OnBoot.

Maybe  alsa-config.tcz  should be added to  alsa.tcz.dep  (possibly with a note in alsa.tcz.info saying this dependency is not always needed and can be removed from the alsa.tcz.dep file if desired)?
Or somehow making new users to RTFM (info file / Apps Info). q:

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