[newbie] Sound & DVD problems

[Andrew Konosky]

I can't seem to get my sound to work on my old computer. I did a fresh 
install of Mandrake 10.1 community, but the sound doesn't work. I had 
this same problem under Debian 3.1 on this same computer. The chip is 
just an onboard Creative PCI128 and uses the kernel module es1371. I was 
trying to play a DVD and didn't have any sound. The Mandrake hardware 
control center detects my sound card right, but trying to run kmix fails 
because it can't find alsa, and the Gnome volume control doesn't have 
any channels to adjust either! Alsa is installed & configured to run in 
Init 3-5, so I don't know what the problem is there.

I did a simple 'modprobe es1371' command from a root shell and the sound 
works fine now. I don't want to have to manually load the kernel sound 
module everytime I startup, so how do I fix the sound settings?

Also, both Xine and Totem will not read my DVDs. Xine plays the first 
intro track (MGM Studio scene etc...) and then says the video is 
encrypted, and totem won't even play. MPlayer plays the DVD fine (with 
sound after the modprobe command), but I can't find an RPM for the gui 
version and I don't have time right now to compile the sourcecode. Where 
can I find the Xine DVD plugins and the gmplayer rpm packages? The urpmi 
says they can't be located.

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