On Friday 01 October 2004 05:50 pm, Andrew Konosky wrote:
I can't seem to get my sound to work on my old computer. I did a fresh
install of Mandrake 10.1 community, but the sound doesn't work. I had
this same problem under Debian 3.1 on this same computer. The chip is
just an onboard Creative PCI128 and uses the kernel module es1371. I was
trying to play a DVD and didn't have any sound. The Mandrake hardware
control center detects my sound card right, but trying to run kmix fails
because it can't find alsa, and the Gnome volume control doesn't have
any channels to adjust either! Alsa is installed configured to run in
Init 3-5, so I don't know what the problem is there.
I did a simple 'modprobe es1371' command from a root shell and the sound
works fine now. I don't want to have to manually load the kernel sound
module everytime I startup, so how do I fix the sound settings?
Also, both Xine and Totem will not read my DVDs. Xine plays the first
intro track (MGM Studio scene etc...) and then says the video is
encrypted, and totem won't even play. MPlayer plays the DVD fine (with
sound after the modprobe command), but I can't find an RPM for the gui
version and I don't have time right now to compile the sourcecode. Where
can I find the Xine DVD plugins and the gmplayer rpm packages? The urpmi
says they can't be located.
You need to put the es1371 in modules.conf I believe. But 10.1 seems to be a
bit different so I am not sure what the alias line should be (alias sound
es1371) , anyone on the list know where this stuff goes?
As for the DVD problem install libdvdcss from the PLF web site or it is also
on Mandrake Club RPMs web site. This is the DVDJohn decoder library and
your xine should run then, maybe. HTH.
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