"Dexter N Muir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi all
You have hijacked a thread, see: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette please :) > I have an hp pavilion 713a machine, with Microstar MS-6577 >Motherboard. This has an Avance AC97 audio chip on board, which works >fine under the pre-loaded XP. I'm trying to migrate it to Mandrake >(10.0 Community), and running into the odd obstacle or two... > Firstly, the drivers themselves. "Configure your computer" says the >hardware itself is working fine (there are no error messages). I've >tried using the alternate drivers as listed here, but with no better >success than the default (snd_intel 8x0). The diagnostic procedures >tell me to run a series of commands, and I've done these, but the >results are cryptic: > chkconfig --list sound reports a series of 0: .. 6:, with off or >on. > chkconfig --list alsa does the same. What do these mean? See 'man chkconfig'. In this case it lists the runlevels in which a service like sound or alsa is started. Posting the output of the diagnostic procedures is always a good idea. > Nextly, the mixer. I'm using KDE desktop, so up comes Kmix. The >help files for this tell me nothing about what the red and green >buttons >(above and below the sliders) are for - can ANYONE tell me? Also, I >can >see a "Mix Mono" output, but after having fiddled the drivers the >stereo >one has disappeared - is this a symptom of the lack of sound out? Yes, >I can right-click the slider and split the control, but the right one >snaps to the left setting, so that doesn't turn it into stereo, it's >really a mono one. Use alsamixer if you use the default ALSA driver snd_intel8x0. Alsamixer has a man page. Be sure to unmute (toggle with the 'm' key) and raise the volumes of the relevant channels, at least 'pcm' and 'master'. Btw, what exactly is the problem? Do applications 'appear' to play? > Has anyone any pointers here? >Hopefully... >Dex HTH, -Frans
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