To see if I had Kmix, I went to the menus of installed programs. I also
checked in the Package Manager, didn't find Kmix at all there. I don't know
any other way (remember I'm a total newbie to Linux).
I can get CD's to play, just not MP3's. I've not tried any other audio
format.
I'll try what you said, ALSA was checked to start, but not running. Right
now I'm burning a CD and don't want to kill that to reboot.
thanks for your help...now to why my printer has gotten really slow...for
another post...
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 5:31, etharp wrote:
> let me get this straight, you ARE using Mandrake 8.0. you do not think you
> have Kmix on your system. how did you check to see if kmix was installed?
> do you have the available hard drive space to install it? do not install
> more sound drivers (as far I rememrber, alsa and OSS conflict, and you may
> already have some conflicting sound problems). in fact, in this case, the
> answer may be as likely to uninstall a sound service as to install one.
> this is a partial quote from a report by someone whom knows ALOT more about
> this stuff than I do.
>
> "Mandrake Control Center => System => Services and unchecked
> "at boot" for alsa once I noticed that it was checked at boot and wasn't
> running anyway. Then I opened KDE Control Center=>Sound=>Sound Server
> and made the default the sound driver (neither ALSA not autodetect) then
> logged out an rebooted. Sound was afterwards fine."
>
> On Monday 06 August 2001 23:17, Linus Drouhard wrote:
> > Ok, I made sure that PNP was turned off in BIOS (already was off).
> >
> > I tried to find Kmix, don't have it. I did get CD Player to work. But I
> > cannot get XMMS to work. It still scrolls the MP3 title and sits there.
> > It (xmms) freezes whenever I try to stop it. In fact, just about any of
> > the sound applications freeze when I try to exit them. None (but CD
> > Player) work. Could there be a setting somewhere that has been
> > accidentally switched, effectively killing my card?
> >
> > I'm ready to try ALSA, but after spending several long nights with WINE
> > (and then disappointed at the results) several more nights with SANE
> > (didn't get that to work right and gave up, at least for now) and now
> > ALSA, I want something to go easy. The mini-howto on ALSA is 29 pages
> > and its for kernel 2.2, not the 2.4.3 that comes with Mandrake 8.0. I'm
> > not sure I want to tackle that now. Please help a newbie in distress.
> >
> > On Sunday 05 August 2001 5:21, etharp wrote:
> > > run Kmix and make sure the levels are respectable to hear (half way)
> > > and that in BIOS, plug and pray aware OS is set to OFF.
> > >
> > > On Sunday 05 August 2001 14:05, Linus Drouhard wrote:
> > > > I have an old Soundblaster 16 that I cannot get to work. I ran
> > > > sndconfig and it would play the sample sounds in the configuration
> > > > routine. I think that the first test was the word "Hello" but I got
> > > > a "Hel" sounded like it cutoff. The midi track played fine.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, I tried configuring it through Harddrake, couldn't fine
> > > > isapnp.config, or something like that.
> > > >
> > > > I tried using it anyway. CD-player spins away, but no sound.
> > > > Running an MP3 through XMMS (and other MP3 players) doesn't work
> > > > either. The title scrolls by, but the song won't play. If I slide
> > > > the progress bar, I get snippets of sound, 1/2 second or so long.
> > > >
> > > > Any help would be appreciated in setting this "classic" soundcard up.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Linus
> > > >
> > > > ASUS P5A
> > > > AMD K6-II 400 @420
> > > > 128 MB Ram
> > > > Nvidia TNT2 M64 with 32MB
> > > > Realtek NIC
