Ion wrote:
> I hoping someone can help me I'm trying to get multimedia working on an
>
> HP Omnibook 900
>
> Basically I have no idea where to start. I've been messing around with
> Linux for a while but I have had no real success in understanding the
> process for getting multimedia to work on Linux. I'm a windows guy and
> I'm not afraid of the command prompt but there doesn't seem to be any
> logic to where applications go to get their output information. So if
> some kind soul can't point me to some logic that will help get this
> straight and fix this.
There's logic to it, trust me. First of all, all the hardware devices
in the computer are represented in Linux as files in the /dev
filesystem. A Google search for "omnibook 900 linux sound" found
information saying that your Omnibook runs a Maestro-2E chipset for
sound, and that the maestro driver runs it, at least in old kernels.
Since I don't know what version of Knoppix you used to install, I'm not
sure what kernel version you're using.
Here are some things to try.
1) Check to see if the audio is muted in the mixer. (I know it may
seem silly to ask, but some people miss it. Often it is muted by default.)
2) Run lsmod at the command prompt and see if you see any sound related
stuff in the output, like soundcore or maestro.
3) If not, try running, as root:
modprobe maestro
No output means it worked. Try your sound app then. If you get an
error, you have to do more.
4) Post a reply saying what the output of the following commands are,
and we'll try to help from there:
lsmod
uname -a
ls -l /usr/src
> I'd like to get XMMS and Totem or Xine working with audio. I'd prefer
> to get this working with XFCE or Gnome but I'd settle for KDE (If WM
> even matters).
In Linux, the only hardware that X controls is the video. Everything
else is in the kernel itself, so sound is divorced completely from what
WM you're using.
> If anyone has any pointer or suggested reading to figure this out I
> would be very grateful.
You may also want to poke around in the HOWTOs on www.tldp.org to see
what you can learn about sound there.
Chad Martin
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