Hi,
This is a long one 8-}...
I have a Cyrix P200+, 64 MBytes RAM and I use a 2 disk set-up.
First disk has DOS, FAT32 (Win95) and NTFS (NT 4.0) partitions each
with the respective OS.
Second disk I have the native Linux fs and a swap of 200 Megabyte on a
1.5 Giga disk. I boot into this disk using NT's boot loader.
Installed LM 8.1 (several times). On the last attempt I got it working.
Three accounts (including root), sound card (MB319 using sndconfig) and the
CD-ROM. I could play music CD's without a problem, I could also mount and
view the CD, no problem. The only things that seemed odd were:
1. DMA time-outs, which the kernel sooner or later switches off.
2. The initrd.img file of the boot floppies have 0 kbytes, so to boot
successfully, I have to remove lilo's append.
Ok, I then attempted to play video (MPEG I, video sampling at 192Kbs and
sound at 44 KHz). My first attempt was with KDE's media player. Got the
following errors:
"Connecting start aRts soundserver failed. Make sure that artsd is
configured
properly"
The video output starts off, sound begins but immediately terminates. Xmms
started successfully, but the sound stuttered and there were so many skipped
video frames that I tried to solve this.
I checked and the daemon was running (ps -A). Used KControl->Sound->Sound
server to check set-up and status and set-up is as follows:
1. Log errors : artsmessage
2. General
a. Start aRts soundserver on KDE start-up
b. Run sound server w/ real-time priority
c. Autosuspend if idle for: 60 seconds
d. Display message using artsmessage
e. message display : errors
3. Sound I/O
a. Sound I/O method: autodetect
b. Sound quality: autodetect.
In an attempt to better the sound, I initially changed aRts settings to use
the largest buffer possible but this did not help.
aRts status also shows that the daemon is up. When KDE's media player
executes (and then breaks with an error message) Second attempt to play the
CD results in the above message (this time the app croaks). Status indicates
that
the aRts daemon is no longer in real time now. Xmms did not have this effect
on
the sound server.
Hmmmm, what's up?
Ok, I the got fed up with this and logged in as another user after a reboot.
Now I cannot listen to any Audio CD's. I figured KMixer's settings went
back to default and so no sound. I launched this app and boom, error
message:
"Invalid mixer "MAD16 WSS (82C930)" ".
This message only appears on the account that originally played the CD. The
other accounts (including root), just show an empty mixer panel and no f..
message (sorry, had to vent a little here, it been weeks and I can't this
working, ;-)).
Ok, any pointers?
TIA.
Hugo Ferreira
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