I am gonna snip out a lot of this so that it don't get to long to read On Sunday 12 August 2001 23:10, Linus Drouhard wrote: > I think we're heading down the wrong path. Just the fact we know your video card is agp and not sharing a slot is a big help and a good start. > No, there isn't physical room to put a card in each slot. Don't be too concerned with "drivers" As I remember it, SB16 loads as a module when booting, so reading the /var/log/dmesg file might give some more insight as to wheither or not the drivers are loaded, and if no SB16 modules are loaded then we know more. In order to find out about running services (or servers) if you use KDE, go to the "K" button on the menu bar, > Applications > Monitoring > Process Managment, (as long as this was installed when you installed the OS, if not, as root, use "top" in a text console). This opens KPM, which should show you all the running processes (you might have to scroll thru) this also should give a window(graphs) at the top that shows cpu, mem, and swap use. be carefull what you kill, (ie; don't kill the Xfont server) but look at all you can learn about what is eating your system resources. > > just because you did not start them, does not mean you do not have > > servers running. In Mandrake, servers are running when you start up, by > > default, as long as you installed them when you installed the OS and have > > not made sure they do not start at boot and are turned off as you work. > > OK. On this, I have to plead ignorance. What should I be looking for > here? To my knowledge I don't have any mail servers running. I am running > Samba. Everything else seems to run fine. On Wednesday 08 August 2001 11:04, Linus Drouhard wrote: > 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
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