[newbie] MDK 10.1 Official DVD replay problem

2005-02-27 Thread paul marwick 
I have 10.1 Official (download version) installed on an IBM T23. Very
impressed, but there are a few problems...

I installed Xine and the libdvdcss stuff. It works fine, but only once.
I can open Xine and play a DVD, but the next time I try, it will not
produce any sound. Instead, I get a file called ~/xine-out.wav and
silence. It seems that as soon as the Xine config is applied or saved,
the sound output vanishes. 

Can anyone suggest what I should be looking at to cure this? I've tried
both the offical version of xine-ui and xinelib and the PLF version,
but get the same results with both. I've not had this problem with Xine
in the past, and I really don't know where to look. If I delete
~/.xine/config I can get sound again until the next time I reopen Xine,
but that's not exactly a wonderful solution...

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

paul

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[newbie] sound problem in 10.1

2005-01-26 Thread paul marwick 
I recently installed Mandrake 10.1 official on my IBM T23. Overall, I'm
impressed. The install was better than any other version of Mandrake
I've tried since 6.1, and the end result is fast and seems quite
stable. I'll have to compile the Lucent drivers, but other than that,
most of what I want seems to work pretty well.

One problem I have hit is withh sound support. The sound drivers are
loading, but sound under either Gnome or KDE is muted. I can get round
the problem by opening aumix and (after initially setting the levels
up and saving them) forcing a load. However, next time the laptop is
booted, no sound until I go through the process again. 

Watching boot messages, I see an error coming from the mixed during
boot - it is unable to locate /dev/mixer. Am I correct in assuming this
is becuase udev has not created the correct device node at this point?

I've tried adding aumix -L to rc.local, but it does not seem to be
executed (well, if it is being executed it doesn't help) and I've also
tried adding the same line to the Gnome session startup page (I use
Gnome by default). This does work, but it affects the way Gnome loads.
With the command in startup, the Gnome splash screen no longer clears
and I suspect that not everything Gnome related is being loaded. I can
click on the spash screen to get it to go away, but it seems that I
either can't use the command were I've got it, or I need to alter the
syntax.

Has anyone else seen this sort of problem with sound startup, or is it
peculiar to the T23? Also, can anyone suggest how I get rid of it
completely?

paul.

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