On Saturday 10 April 2004 02:52 pm, robin wrote: > et wrote: > > On Friday 09 April 2004 09:34 pm, Rory wrote: > >>I'm having similar problems. The MDK LiveCD recognized my soundcard > >>without an issue (as did two other LiveCDs), but MDK 10.0CE won't > >> recognize it and I just haven't had any luck getting it to work, despite > >> that fact that MDK appears to recognize it. > >> > >>On Saturday 10 April 2004 3:30 am, robin wrote: > >>>I sit just me, or is multimedia totally screwed up in 10.0? I can't even > >>>listen to an audio CD. I sorted out my soundcard after a lot of tweaking > >>>some time ago, but now I try to listen to a CD and Xine and KsCD give me > >>>no sound, and Totem hangs the system and needs a dirty reboot. > >>> > >>>Sir Robin > > > > which kernel do you boot to? > > I don't know if you were asking Rory or me. I'm using 2.6 - both
> it gave me a > lot of grief at the beginning, then I hacked /etc/modprobe.conf and it > worked fine for a while, except for Totem, which has never worked for me > (and a fair few others) in 10.0. hmmm, cause what I read,,,/etc/modprobe.conf is for a 2.4 kernel... and /etc/modprobe.preload is the config for the 2.6 kernel but I bet the problem is more along the lines of aRts -vs- alsa -vs- OSS. have you set a timeout for aRts? > > Last night the whole audio side went doolally, but (after rebooting) > it's working fine this morning (at least KsCD is - I'm not touching > Totem any more). I think it was probably a dodgy CD causing Xine to > leave a zombie process somewhere (naturally I tested with a different > CD, but maybe the old one left some crap in the system). > > What I find puzzling about 10.0 in general is not that some things don't > work - I expect that, particularly since it is essentially a beta. > However, my experience with Linux to date has been that things either > work or they don't - there's no "works sometimes" (that's something I > associate with that other OS). My experience with trying to get wvdial > to run on boot is similar. Sometimes it starts, sometimes it doesn't. > > Sir Robin -- linux counter #167806
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