Re: [newbie] Sound Is Impossible
I presume there must be a way to set Xmms as the player from the K menu? Anne On Monday 15 Jul 2002 12:28 am, you wrote: Use sndconfig to detect or set it manually. This solved my problem with sound from audio CD, using an old onboard Mobo. I also change from KsCD to Xmms. Filipe At 22:44 13/7/2002 -0400, you wrote: I have no sound on my machine either. I had Red Hat on the machine and the sound worked. Decided to try Mandrake, and no sound. I like Mandrake better, except for my sound problem. SIS7018 Onboard Sound Card Quoting Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:55:51 +0100 Daryl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's taken me 4 weeks of fairly constant tinkering, adjustment and experimentation to arrive at the conclusion that it is impossible to configure my sound card - which seems remarkable as in most ways it is getting recognised. Forgive the long post but if anyone has anything constructive to add at least all the information should be here :o) :) : Hardware Configuration ABIT VP6 mother board Could you post an URL for this board? Twin Pentium III processors 1000 mhz 512Mb ram 1 x 40 Gb drives 1 x HP CdROM RW 1 x Adaptec SCSI I/F 1 x Travan SCSI tape 1 x GE Force 2MX video card 1 x Creative Blaster 4.1 Digital You really have just one soundcard and no onboard sound? Creative Blaster 4.1 Digital sounds more like a emu10k1 card than an Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI card as reported by 'lspci -v'.But then you have the ALSA module snd-card-ens1371 loaded Confusing ('Creative ;) ') naming by Creative Labs? Software Started with a purchase of Mandrake 8.0 Powerpack because I liked 7.2 Currently using 8.2 because it came on the cover of Linux Today and I hoped it would self-configure the sound. The Bios in the machine has been tried with plug'n play switched on and off. It's currently on Information Output from dmesg shows no recognition of a sound card at all, though there have been times during this saga when I have seen es1371 mentioned. My /etc/modules.conf is : alias usb-interface usb-uhci # ALSA native device support alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major = 116 snd_cards_limit = 1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371 # OSS/Free setup alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss probeall scsi_hostadapter advansys alias eth0 3c59x Output from lsmod is: Module Size Used byNot tainted sr_mod 15192 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-midi3424 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss26112 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3504 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq43056 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss18848 1 snd-pcm-plugin 16144 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 4704 0 [snd-pcm-oss] parport_pc 22280 1 (autoclean) lp 6624 0 (autoclean) parport25440 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] snd-card-ens13712208 1 snd-ens137110624 0 [snd-card-ens1371] snd-pcm33824 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1371] snd-timer 9568 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi10688 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371] snd-seq-device 4028 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 25504 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-mixer 25416 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371 snd-ac97-codec] snd35648 1 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer] soundcore 4452 7 [snd] nfsd 70592 8 (autoclean) lockd 50080 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 67860 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] af_packet 13896 0 (autoclean) ipchains 38440 0 usb-uhci 22692 0 (unused) usbcore62048 1 [usb-uhci] 3c59x 26536 1 (autoclean) st 28052 0 (unused) supermount 62308 2 (autoclean) ide-scsi8096 0 rtc 6680 0 (autoclean) reiserfs 172032 6 advansys
Re: [newbie] Sound Is Impossible
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: I presume there must be a way to set Xmms as the player from the K menu? Anne Hi all, I've been following this thread for a little while now, and have decided to add my 2 cents to the mix. after reviewing the component list of this mobo I've discovered that it is very likely the sound card that is currently installed on this system is quite likely *not* going to work. It is primarily software driven. In plain words it's a *win* card. Am I right or wrong in this? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Is Impossible
I have no sound on my machine either. I had Red Hat on the machine and the sound worked. Decided to try Mandrake, and no sound. I like Mandrake better, except for my sound problem. SIS7018 Onboard Sound Card Quoting Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:55:51 +0100 Daryl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's taken me 4 weeks of fairly constant tinkering, adjustment and experimentation to arrive at the conclusion that it is impossible to configure my sound card - which seems remarkable as in most ways it is getting recognised. Forgive the long post but if anyone has anything constructive to add at least all the information should be here :o) :) Hardware Configuration ABIT VP6 mother board Could you post an URL for this board? Twin Pentium III processors 1000 mhz 512Mb ram 1 x 40 Gb drives 1 x HP CdROM RW 1 x Adaptec SCSI I/F 1 x Travan SCSI tape 1 x GE Force 2MX video card 1 x Creative Blaster 4.1 Digital You really have just one soundcard and no onboard sound? Creative Blaster 4.1 Digital sounds more like a emu10k1 card than an Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI card as reported by 'lspci -v'.But then you have the ALSA module snd-card-ens1371 loaded Confusing ('Creative ;) ') naming by Creative Labs? Software Started with a purchase of Mandrake 8.0 Powerpack because I liked 7.2 Currently using 8.2 because it came on the cover of Linux Today and I hoped it would self-configure the sound. The Bios in the machine has been tried with plug'n play switched on and off. It's currently on Information Output from dmesg shows no recognition of a sound card at all, though there have been times during this saga when I have seen es1371 mentioned. My /etc/modules.conf is : alias usb-interface usb-uhci # ALSA native device support alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major = 116 snd_cards_limit = 1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371 # OSS/Free setup alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss probeall scsi_hostadapter advansys alias eth0 3c59x Output from lsmod is: Module Size Used byNot tainted sr_mod 15192 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-midi3424 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss26112 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3504 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq43056 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss18848 1 snd-pcm-plugin 16144 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 4704 0 [snd-pcm-oss] parport_pc 22280 1 (autoclean) lp 6624 0 (autoclean) parport25440 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] snd-card-ens13712208 1 snd-ens137110624 0 [snd-card-ens1371] snd-pcm33824 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1371] snd-timer 9568 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi10688 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371] snd-seq-device 4028 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 25504 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-mixer 25416 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371 snd-ac97-codec] snd35648 1 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer] soundcore 4452 7 [snd] nfsd 70592 8 (autoclean) lockd 50080 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 67860 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] af_packet 13896 0 (autoclean) ipchains 38440 0 usb-uhci 22692 0 (unused) usbcore62048 1 [usb-uhci] 3c59x 26536 1 (autoclean) st 28052 0 (unused) supermount 62308 2 (autoclean) ide-scsi8096 0 rtc 6680 0 (autoclean) reiserfs 172032 6 advansys 86668 0 (unused) sd_mod 11512 0 (unused) scsi_mod 96060 5 [sr_mod st ide-scsi advansys sd_mod] The relevant line from ps reads: 2737 ?S 0:09 /usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -d -b 16 -s 1 -m artsmes Running drakxservices shows that both Alsa and Sound are started at boot and running. Checking further I find that in Control Centre my board is recognised as an Ensoniq 5880 Audio PCI using kernel module es1371 (which was why I used this module when setting up modules.conf) The configuration tool produces
Re: [newbie] Sound Is Impossible
FWIW, I've had no problems with my Audigy since I changed the Sound IO method to OSS - it was on auto before and I had a lot of problems Anne On Friday 12 Jul 2002 10:44 pm, you wrote: July 12, 2002 02:55 am, Daryl Johnson wrote: large 'random' snips As far as I know Daryl, the only drivers that work for any Creative Blaster sound card is emu 10k1. It's on the disks for 8.2 (and was on the older versions back to 7 something I think). My hardware isn't as new as yours but still uses an ABit mb. A BX6 rev2 with one PIII 500 MHz processor. ALSA is off on my system and everything works as it should. MP3s and OGG files that were originally encoded surround play in surround mode through XMMS, the few system notifications that I've left on play when they should. My /etc/modules.conf is : alias usb-interface usb-uhci # ALSA native device support alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major = 116 snd_cards_limit = 1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371 Mine shows this: alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi alias eth0 tulip My emu10k1 configuration copied and pasted from /etc/emu10k1.conf: ## ## This file is used to configure emu10k1's emu-script ## CARD_IS_5_1=no USE_DIGITAL_OUTPUT=yes ENABLE_TONE_CONTROL=yes # Note, it's safe to say yes to the next option even if you're not going # to use it. When this option is enabled, the driver can autodetects AC3 # data and behaves normally with normal audio. # (Saying yes causes some of the soundcard's resources to be used up) AC3PASSTHROUGH=no # Change this to yes to enable the Livedrive midi port and IR remote # control. ENABLE_LIVEDRIVE_IR=no # Most Lives have their analog front signals inverted. If you have # problems with your setup (low bass), try changing this to 'yes'. (This # option has no effect with digital setups) INVERT_REAR=no #Multichannel playback (for 4 - 6 channel setups) MULTICHANNEL=yes # On 5.1 cards in multichannel mode, should the multichannel data be fed # to the sub as well? You probably don't want this if you have a # speaker set like the DTT2200 which already feeds all channels to the # sub in hardware. ROUTE_ALL_TO_SUB=no # By default, the front analog channels have a +12dB boost applied to # them by the AC'97 mixer. If you encounter clipping, or find that the # volume of the front speakers is too high in a multichannel setup, try # changing this to 'no'. ANALOG_FRONT_BOOST=no # Surround ## # Some wavs, or mp3 are surround sound encoded the next two # options can be used to decode these in hardware. # (select one or the other, not both) # passive matrix surround decoder SURROUND=yes # Active matrix surround decoder PROLOGIC=no # Extra Inputs # ## This connector is mounted on the card itself ENABLE_CD_Spdif=yes # Volume control is 'Digital1' in aumix/gmix/kmix # The next four inputs are found on Livedrives, some of these may also # be inputs on the older add-on daughter cards. ENABLE_OPTICAL_SPDIF=no # Volume control is 'Digital2' ENABLE_LINE2_MIC2=no# Volume control is 'Line2' ENABLE_RCA_SPDIF=no # Volume control is 'Digital3' ENABLE_RCA_AUX=no # Volume control is 'line3' As an aside, the only listings that I can find for Creative Blaster 4.1 Digital at the Creative site are this one: http://fi.europe.creative.com/products/product.asp?prod=251page=6 and the only driver support is for (no surprise here) Windows. But a Blaster should be a Blaster and I'd still try emu10k1. My card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Value Digital circa 1999. Model CT4830. Does yours not show any model number at all? I hope this helps you in some small way. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Is Impossible
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:55:51 +0100 Daryl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's taken me 4 weeks of fairly constant tinkering, adjustment and experimentation to arrive at the conclusion that it is impossible to configure my sound card - which seems remarkable as in most ways it is getting recognised. Forgive the long post but if anyone has anything constructive to add at least all the information should be here :o) :) Hardware Configuration ABIT VP6 mother board Could you post an URL for this board? Twin Pentium III processors 1000 mhz 512Mb ram 1 x 40 Gb drives 1 x HP CdROM RW 1 x Adaptec SCSI I/F 1 x Travan SCSI tape 1 x GE Force 2MX video card 1 x Creative Blaster 4.1 Digital You really have just one soundcard and no onboard sound? Creative Blaster 4.1 Digital sounds more like a emu10k1 card than an Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI card as reported by 'lspci -v'.But then you have the ALSA module snd-card-ens1371 loaded Confusing ('Creative ;) ') naming by Creative Labs? Software Started with a purchase of Mandrake 8.0 Powerpack because I liked 7.2 Currently using 8.2 because it came on the cover of Linux Today and I hoped it would self-configure the sound. The Bios in the machine has been tried with plug'n play switched on and off. It's currently on Information Output from dmesg shows no recognition of a sound card at all, though there have been times during this saga when I have seen es1371 mentioned. My /etc/modules.conf is : alias usb-interface usb-uhci # ALSA native device support alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major = 116 snd_cards_limit = 1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371 # OSS/Free setup alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss probeall scsi_hostadapter advansys alias eth0 3c59x Output from lsmod is: Module Size Used byNot tainted sr_mod 15192 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-midi3424 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss26112 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3504 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq43056 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss18848 1 snd-pcm-plugin 16144 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 4704 0 [snd-pcm-oss] parport_pc 22280 1 (autoclean) lp 6624 0 (autoclean) parport25440 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] snd-card-ens13712208 1 snd-ens137110624 0 [snd-card-ens1371] snd-pcm33824 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1371] snd-timer 9568 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi10688 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371] snd-seq-device 4028 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 25504 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-mixer 25416 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371 snd-ac97-codec] snd35648 1 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer] soundcore 4452 7 [snd] nfsd 70592 8 (autoclean) lockd 50080 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 67860 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] af_packet 13896 0 (autoclean) ipchains 38440 0 usb-uhci 22692 0 (unused) usbcore62048 1 [usb-uhci] 3c59x 26536 1 (autoclean) st 28052 0 (unused) supermount 62308 2 (autoclean) ide-scsi8096 0 rtc 6680 0 (autoclean) reiserfs 172032 6 advansys 86668 0 (unused) sd_mod 11512 0 (unused) scsi_mod 96060 5 [sr_mod st ide-scsi advansys sd_mod] The relevant line from ps reads: 2737 ?S 0:09 /usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -d -b 16 -s 1 -m artsmes Running drakxservices shows that both Alsa and Sound are started at boot and running. Checking further I find that in Control Centre my board is recognised as an Ensoniq 5880 Audio PCI using kernel module es1371 (which was why I used this module when setting up modules.conf) The configuration tool produces nothing however and neither does sndconfig. The IRQ is 11 and is shared between advansys, usb and ensoniq The ports are cc00-cc3f Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI Interestingly the PCI report states: 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) Subsystem: Ensoniq: Unknown device 8001 Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at cc00 [size=64] Capabilities