Larry Sword wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Nope--doesn't matter if he has a CDROM in the drive or not. The message is from sr, which means that he has a CDRW most likely and the /dev/cdrom isn't pointing there.
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