Daryl Johnson wrote: > OK things move on - with a degree of embarrassment :o/ > > Following on from some of Larry Swords comments I ran the card down to the > European web site (makes sense, I bought the card in Scotland). I had the > opportunity here to d/l a manual. Query, if there is a manual available why > wasn't it in the box? Maybe it was but on the windows disk. Hmmmmmmm > > Anyway, d/l the manual and have a glance through. > > Well, that's certainly a better set-up diagram than the leaflet - let's see > if everything is as per... well, the cd line is to the right place tick one. > The line in is.... Oh sh&t, check back with the leaflet... degree of > confusion, check with the manual, none at all. Replace line out one socket > up. > > Run Control Centre and sound card configuration and a LOUID american voice > tells me that my card is configured! A quick run of a cd and it plays. Oh > Joy. > > Further check shows that /etc/modules.conf is as per: > > alias usb-interface usb-uhci > > # ALSA native device support > options snd snd_major = 116 snd_cards_limit = 1 > > #OSS/Free setup > > probeall scsi_hostadapter advansys > alias eth0 3c59x > alias sound-slot-0 es1371 I would recommend, as root, make a backup of your /etc/modules.conf file. Then edit /etc/modules.conf and remove these lines: (as you are no longer using the ALSA drivers. # ALSA native device support options snd snd_major = 116 snd_cards_limit = 1 The ONLY entry for your sound card needsis: alias sound-slot-0 es1371 Run depmod -a. Then reboot. > > Certainly seems a bit less elaborate than before. > > OK another test, shutdown and reboot. > > Dmesg now shows: > > es1371: version v0.30 time 01:49:49 Mar 15 2002 > es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x02 > es1371: found es1371 rev 2 at io 0xcc00 irq 11 > es1371: features: joystick 0x0 > ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7608 (SigmaTel STAC9708) > > plus an illegal CDROM request > > sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. > sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. Maybe you don't have a cdron in the drive? > Furthermore there is no swelling chord when the KDE screen opens and there is > an error message: > > Sound server fatal error: > cpu overload, aborting > > It seems that artsd is failing to connect somewhere. A further test shows > that noatun refuses to run HOWEVER calling up KDE Sound Server, restarting > the server appears to work and noatun can now run (though I have to kill > artsd to get Real video running again (sheesh) > > Sooooooooooo, thanks for all the help and comments so far and ummmm, where > might I go from here? > > regards > > Daryl > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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