Damn Small Linux speaks

I've been distro-hopping on the $15 Laptop -- a Compaq Armada 7770dmt -- and so far Damn Small Linux is running ahead of the pack. It does the best with my current 64 MB of RAM, and it looks great. But until now, sound hasn't worked. Before I got the $15 Laptop (purchased from Lots of Laptops), I did some searches on installing Linux on the Compaq, and this page had some useful info on the sound problem in Red Hat:

... from the list pick ES1688 -- that's not the one in the computer but it works if you pick the right setting. You have to select 220 irq 5 dma 1 and 330 ...

That was enough to get sound in Puppy Linux (choosing ES1688 as the sound card and letting Puppy autoconfigure the rest -- as always, Puppy excels at hardware detection and setup).

But how do you configure sound in Damn Small Linux (I'm using version 3.3)? I searched for help with sound in DSL, specifically for Compaq laptops, and this page got me started:

open a terminal and type:

sudo rmmod soundcore sudo modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 mpu_io=0x330

and your Compaq Armada 1750 is no longer silent!

I don't have the 1750, but this was enough to get xmms to "play" a sound, even if I couldn't hear it.

I saw what was different. The Compaq 7770dmt uses dma=1, while the 1750 uses dma=0.

So I rebooted and tried this:

sudo rmmod soundcore
sudo modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330

IT WORKED! I now have sound in Damn Small Linux on the $15 Laptop.