[newbie] Sound trouble, again, plus joystick
I've got a Soundblaster Live card, plus an integrated i810 sound chip. I'm using the SB exclusively - I don't want to have anything to do with the latter. The sound configuration on my system, which never worked adequately to start with ( =midi nonfunctional), has gone from bad to worse. One day when I started up the system, Linux decided suddenly to detect the i810 to which it had until then paid no attention. Now the situation is that whenever I start up the system I have to run sndconfig to get _any_ sound at all out. The configure functionality in HardDrake can't do anything at all about it: when it tries to play an 8 bit sample with the i810, I get 'sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied' (and no sound), and when it tries the same thing for SBLive, I get no errors, nor sound. Now, I'm absolutely losing patience with this PoS. Could someone advice me how to get things in working order? It would be absolutely wonderful to get instructions on how to remove _everything_ related to sound and then reinstall the drivers/whatevers _correctly_ from scratch. Also, I can't figure out how to get my joystick detected. It's an old-fashioned non-USB affair (a Gravis with a rudder wheel), and I have two joy ports to spare, one in the motherboard, one in the SB card. +Cinquo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound trouble, again, plus joystick
did your integrated i810 sound card get turned on in the bios? I would first disable this card in the bios, then try to reconfigure via Mandrake Control Center. On Monday 17 December 2001 06:14 am, you wrote: I've got a Soundblaster Live card, plus an integrated i810 sound chip. I'm using the SB exclusively - I don't want to have anything to do with the latter. The sound configuration on my system, which never worked adequately to start with ( =midi nonfunctional), has gone from bad to worse. One day when I started up the system, Linux decided suddenly to detect the i810 to which it had until then paid no attention. Now the situation is that whenever I start up the system I have to run sndconfig to get _any_ sound at all out. The configure functionality in HardDrake can't do anything at all about it: when it tries to play an 8 bit sample with the i810, I get 'sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied' (and no sound), and when it tries the same thing for SBLive, I get no errors, nor sound. Now, I'm absolutely losing patience with this PoS. Could someone advice me how to get things in working order? It would be absolutely wonderful to get instructions on how to remove _everything_ related to sound and then reinstall the drivers/whatevers _correctly_ from scratch. Also, I can't figure out how to get my joystick detected. It's an old-fashioned non-USB affair (a Gravis with a rudder wheel), and I have two joy ports to spare, one in the motherboard, one in the SB card. +Cinquo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Sound trouble, again, plus joystick
I've posted extensive messages and a mini-howto on getting the SBLive working, on this list... Since I do not feel like retyping the long posts again, please search the Archives. I detail how to get EVERYTHING (except the Live drive, although you'll even find this in the search) working... Joystick, Midi, SoundFonts, etc. One note, DISABLE your motherboard's sound and joystick port first... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 7:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound trouble, again, plus joystick I've got a Soundblaster Live card, plus an integrated i810 sound chip. I'm using the SB exclusively - I don't want to have anything to do with the latter. The sound configuration on my system, which never worked adequately to start with ( =midi nonfunctional), has gone from bad to worse. One day when I started up the system, Linux decided suddenly to detect the i810 to which it had until then paid no attention. Now the situation is that whenever I start up the system I have to run sndconfig to get _any_ sound at all out. The configure functionality in HardDrake can't do anything at all about it: when it tries to play an 8 bit sample with the i810, I get 'sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied' (and no sound), and when it tries the same thing for SBLive, I get no errors, nor sound. Now, I'm absolutely losing patience with this PoS. Could someone advice me how to get things in working order? It would be absolutely wonderful to get instructions on how to remove _everything_ related to sound and then reinstall the drivers/whatevers _correctly_ from scratch. Also, I can't figure out how to get my joystick detected. It's an old-fashioned non-USB affair (a Gravis with a rudder wheel), and I have two joy ports to spare, one in the motherboard, one in the SB card. +Cinquo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
