Re: [newbie] Sound setup help needed
The time consumed and difficulty of just setting up the sound alone should scare away any chance of Linux spreading worldwide. Must it be this difficult? The average Joe doesn't have time to reinvent the wheel when all he wants to do is drive off in a new car. Sorry, I'm somewhat dishearten about the time wasted. But then, Microsoft is the greater evil... so back to pounding out this wheel. Seve. -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 10:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound setup help needed On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote: ls -l /dev/mixer # do you have sufficient access to the device? I entered: ls -l /dev/mixer # I get: crw-rw-rw 1 root root 14, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/mixer c tells it's a character device r read access for owner w write access for owner - nothing this is usualy x which is executable r read access for group w write access for group - nothing same as before, these can also be other things like s for suid r read access for anyone w write access for anyone So yes you have access to /dev/mixer How would you interpret this? also... lsmod # do you see anything that might be a sound driver? I get: ModuleSize Used by sound 57272 0 (autoclean) (unused) soundlow 300 0 (autoclean) [sound] soundcore 2372 3 (autoclean) [sound] This is sound, but i do not see a driver for any specific card. I assume you ran sndconfig as root? what does the conf.modules look like? rmmod sound rmmod soundlow rmmod soundcore modprobe sound ~/sounds.broke 21 Now whats ~/sounds.broke have in it? (less ~/sounds.broke) errors? also maybe something in /var/log/messages. (tail -n10 /var/log/messages) nls-iso-8859-1 2020 1 (autoclean) This is a charset.. (modinfo -d nls-iso-8859-1 # Might say better) nsfd 150648 1 (autoclean) lockd 30888 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 52644 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] nfs modules rtl8139 11964 1 (autoclean) your ethernet card.. (modinfo -d rtl8139) Now, how do you interpret that data? How do you know if it lists the sound driver? Umm cause it says "sound" three times in a row ;) Thanks, Seve -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Sound setup help needed
Sevatio Octavio wrote: The time consumed and difficulty of just setting up the sound alone should scare away any chance of Linux spreading worldwide. Must it be this difficult? The average Joe doesn't have time to reinvent the wheel when all he wants to do is drive off in a new car. Sorry, I'm somewhat dishearten about the time wasted. But then, Microsoft is the greater evil... so back to pounding out this wheel. If you have problems getting sndconfig to work for your sound card, you might take a look at the OSS drivers. They're $20, but I've _NEVER_ had a problem getting them to work. Installation time is around 10 minutes. I highly recommend them. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Sound setup help needed
I will second this recommendation. You can try it out before you buy it to make sure it works. I have succeeded in getting most of the sound things to work (including KDE CD Player, RealPlayer G2 and playing .MID and .WAV files) , but not UMP with Netscape. If anyone can help with that I would appreciate it. Murray Steve Philp wrote: Sevatio Octavio wrote: The time consumed and difficulty of just setting up the sound alone should scare away any chance of Linux spreading worldwide. Must it be this difficult? The average Joe doesn't have time to reinvent the wheel when all he wants to do is drive off in a new car. Sorry, I'm somewhat dishearten about the time wasted. But then, Microsoft is the greater evil... so back to pounding out this wheel. If you have problems getting sndconfig to work for your sound card, you might take a look at the OSS drivers. They're $20, but I've _NEVER_ had a problem getting them to work. Installation time is around 10 minutes. I highly recommend them.
[newbie] Sound setup help needed
I'm trying to get some sound but every time I hit the Mixer button... it tells me: "kmix. could not open mixer. perhaps you have no permission to access the mixer device..." What should I do now? How do you get permission? Or is it because the driver is not present? Seve
Re: [newbie] Sound setup help needed
ls -l /dev/mixer # do you have sufficient access to the device? I entered: ls -l /dev/mixer # I get: crw-rw-rw 1 root root 14, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/mixer How would you interpret this? also... lsmod # do you see anything that might be a sound driver? I get: ModuleSize Used by sound 57272 0 (autoclean) (unused) soundlow 300 0 (autoclean) [sound] soundcore 2372 3 (autoclean) [sound] nls-iso-8859-1 2020 1 (autoclean) nsfd 150648 1 (autoclean) lockd 30888 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 52644 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] rtl8139 11964 1 (autoclean) Now, how do you interpret that data? How do you know if it lists the sound driver? Thanks, Seve
Re: [newbie] Sound setup help needed
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, you wrote: I'm trying to get some sound but every time I hit the Mixer button... it tells me: "kmix. could not open mixer. perhaps you have no permission to access the mixer device..." What should I do now? How do you get permission? Or is it because the driver is not present? Seve One quick question first...can you run sound otherwise? System soundsother sound programs etc? Mark
Re: [newbie] Sound setup help needed
No, the only sound that I get is that 'beep'. However in windows, it has full sound capabilities. So I know that the hardware connection is correct. Seveman -Original Message- From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound setup help needed On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, you wrote: I'm trying to get some sound but every time I hit the Mixer button... it tells me: "kmix. could not open mixer. perhaps you have no permission to access the mixer device..." What should I do now? How do you get permission? Or is it because the driver is not present? Seve One quick question first...can you run sound otherwise? System soundsother sound programs etc? Mark
Re: [newbie] Sound setup help needed
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote: ls -l /dev/mixer # do you have sufficient access to the device? I entered: ls -l /dev/mixer # I get: crw-rw-rw 1 root root 14, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/mixer c tells it's a character device r read access for owner w write access for owner - nothing this is usualy x which is executable r read access for group w write access for group - nothing same as before, these can also be other things like s for suid r read access for anyone w write access for anyone So yes you have access to /dev/mixer How would you interpret this? also... lsmod # do you see anything that might be a sound driver? I get: ModuleSize Used by sound 57272 0 (autoclean) (unused) soundlow 300 0 (autoclean) [sound] soundcore 2372 3 (autoclean) [sound] This is sound, but i do not see a driver for any specific card. I assume you ran sndconfig as root? what does the conf.modules look like? rmmod sound rmmod soundlow rmmod soundcore modprobe sound ~/sounds.broke 21 Now whats ~/sounds.broke have in it? (less ~/sounds.broke) errors? also maybe something in /var/log/messages. (tail -n10 /var/log/messages) nls-iso-8859-1 2020 1 (autoclean) This is a charset.. (modinfo -d nls-iso-8859-1 # Might say better) nsfd 150648 1 (autoclean) lockd 30888 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 52644 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] nfs modules rtl8139 11964 1 (autoclean) your ethernet card.. (modinfo -d rtl8139) Now, how do you interpret that data? How do you know if it lists the sound driver? Umm cause it says "sound" three times in a row ;) Thanks, Seve -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
