I believe your sound problem to be an IRQ conflict. How to fix
it depends on your sound card and your motherboard.
First make
sure your IRQ's in the computer bios are all set to auto. The turn off "plug and play
OS" in the BIOS. THat is the stupidest thing in the world in first place.
next. Assuming you have a PCI card try putting it in different slots. You'll find
that PCI slots share IRQ's with other things
in your system like USB ports and UDMA 66 controllers. YOur
motherboard documentation should tell you what shares with what.
Personally I've go my sound card in PCI slot 1 right next to my
agp video card. That slot shares its IRQ with the AGP card but
for some reason that is the only one that doesn't care.
John
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: John Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:18:54 +1200
>Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >
>> > Dear Anyone, Before my computer crash 4 weeks ago I had sound working in
>> > Linux but I do not know why it worked finally. Now after my reinstall
>> > (without windows 95 this time) I am trying to set up sound and I just get
>> > error messages when I try to do it through sndconfig. I went through this
>> > exact same thing before and finally I just put in a musical CD after weeks of
>> > going through this and I had sound! Now I tried the CD but no sound. Is there
>> > anything else I can do? Yes, my card is supported and is on the list. It did
>> > work before. It says something about device resource busy. Would anyone be
>> > able to help me on this one?
>> >
>> > My other problem is- now that I finally have X going correctly( I think )I do
>> > not get the graphical login manager where you login and pick a window
>> > manager. I can only login in from the prompt with startx then I get KDE and
>> > Gnome. I would like the choice of the other window managers, also. How do I
>> > get the graphical login manager to come up?
>> > Thank you very much,
>> > Marcia
>>
>> Marcia....as root edit your /etc/inittab file and change 3 to
>> a 5 in the following line like this:
>>
>> id:3:initdefault:
>> to
>> id:5:initdefault:
>>
>> The next time you boot the system you'll come up in the gui
>> mode and will beable to login in the gui login manager.
>>
>> Concerning your sound problem, try this. On your Panel (at
>> the bottom og f the screen) there is an icon for mixer. Open
>> it and make sure that the volume is turned up loud enough. If
>> this doesn't help then you'll need to supply more info about
>> your sound card.
>>
>> Alan
>
>Also make sure you have sound enabled within the KDE Control Centre
>
>Cheers
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