> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:31:06 -0600
> From: Chad Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Sound driver on knopppix hd install
>
> 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
>
Chad,
As per your suggestion I tried to get the mixer up to see if the volume
was muted but I couldn't get the GTK mixer () up so that I could look
at that. In side XMMS which is the sound app I'm primarily trying to
use to test this I have three relevant sound output option OSS, ALSA,
eSound none of these work. XMMS just skips through all the tracks in
the playlist.
I looked into the hardware I have Omnibook 900. For audio the Docs
list
NewMagic MagicGraph NM2200 (NMG5) and NeoMagic Audio NMA2
I'm guessing this is a printing error as the first part looks identical
to the video card settings the second part though looks appropriate and
that is what the system seems to think is for the audio.
Below is the output for the command you asked
> lsmod
> uname -a
> ls -l /usr/src
I'm now wondering if there is an automated script from knoppix I can
run at the command prompt to configure sound. Unless that would be
more work. Thanks
CParticle
>lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
cisco_ipsec 380544 0 (unused)
autofs4 8756 1
nls_iso8859-1 2844 0 (unused)
nls_cp437 4348 0 (unused)
nm256_audio 66652 0 (unused)
sound 55244 0 [nm256_audio]
soundcore 3428 2 [sound]
ac97 2944 0 [nm256_audio]
usb-storage 61952 0 (unused)
ataraid 6404 0 (unused)
ieee1394 183300 0
af_packet 13544 0 (autoclean)
usb-uhci 21836 0 (unused)
usbcore 57824 1 [usb-storage usb-uhci]
serial_cs 4528 0 (unused)
serial 52068 0 [serial_cs]
xirc2ps_cs 11780 1
ds 6536 2 [serial_cs xirc2ps_cs]
yenta_socket 9504 2
pcmcia_core 39840 0 [serial_cs xirc2ps_cs ds
yenta_socket]
apm 9736 2
ide-cd 28704 0
ide-scsi 9040 0
rtc 7004 0 (autoclean)
ext3 64452 1 (autoclean)
jbd 46516 1 (autoclean) [ext3]
>uname -a
Linux Violet 2.4.26 #1 SMP Sa Apr 17 19:33:42 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
total 28
>ls -l /usr/src
-rw-r--r-- 1 cparticle cparticle 97 Mar 22 2003 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 cparticle cparticle 849 Dec 10 2003
knoppix-kernel.README
-rw-r--r-- 1 cparticle cparticle 2122 Feb 26 2004
knoppix-kernel.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 cparticle cparticle 386 May 1 2004
knoppix-kernel26.patch
lrwxrwxrwx 1 cparticle cparticle 12 Nov 12 15:14 linux ->
linux-2.4.26
drwxr-xr-x 4 cparticle cparticle 4096 Apr 21 2004 linux-2.4.26
drwxr-xr-x 2 cparticle cparticle 4096 Apr 19 2004 modules
drwxr-xr-x 7 cparticle cparticle 4096 Nov 6 2003 rpm
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