Re: [newbie] Still no sound
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 14:38, robin wrote: ...and it's safe to assume that you've tried other drivers - like forcing ALSA? How would I do that? Sir Robin Is there not a means by which - such as in 9.1 - to change the driver in MCC/Hardware to utilise a different driver for sound (or any other bit of hardware)? There's a choice of two for VIA, and neither of them worked. But as I posted recently, I got sound working somehow (I think it was when I was fiddling with /etc/modprobe.conf). Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet? Willow, she's seventeen! - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 13:44, robin wrote: There's a choice of two for VIA, and neither of them worked. But as I posted recently, I got sound working somehow (I think it was when I was fiddling with /etc/modprobe.conf). Sir Robin Well, as we all know, you're a resourceful kinda guy mate. BTW, the GF and I might be coming out yer way on our way to Cairo this year. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Chemistry is applied theology. -- Augustus Stanley Owsley III Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 02:46 am, many eyes viewed robin's words:- OK, having installed 10.0, I now have supermount sorted out and (fingers crossed) nvidia drivers working. But I still have no sound. This is with the notorious onboard VIA chip. I've run through the troubleshooting process (not that I could understand much of what it told me) and followed all the advice on the Twiki, but still no sound. Here's what /etc/modules.conf says probeall scsi_hostadapter sata_via probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd alias agpgart via-agp above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx index=0 dxs_support=2 Try adding as I have index=0 Worked for me, or try this:- options snd-via82xx index=0 dxs_support=3 Charlie -- Sitting quietly alone meditating is not hard. What is hard is living on a broad scale and responding to the world at large. - Wu Yubi (1391-1469) This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 14:38, robin wrote: ...and it's safe to assume that you've tried other drivers - like forcing ALSA? How would I do that? Sir Robin Is there not a means by which - such as in 9.1 - to change the driver in MCC/Hardware to utilise a different driver for sound (or any other bit of hardware)? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. -- Mae West Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Still no sound
OK, having installed 10.0, I now have supermount sorted out and (fingers crossed) nvidia drivers working. But I still have no sound. This is with the notorious onboard VIA chip. I've run through the troubleshooting process (not that I could understand much of what it told me) and followed all the advice on the Twiki, but still no sound. Here's what /etc/modules.conf says probeall scsi_hostadapter sata_via probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd alias agpgart via-agp above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx dxs_support=2 (the last line was one I added after reading the Twiki) The relevant parts of the lsmod output are snd-seq-oss31264 0 snd-seq-midi-event 7552 1 snd-seq-oss snd-seq51248 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss51812 0 snd-mixer-oss 17824 1 snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx23648 0 snd-pcm93220 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-via82xx snd-timer 24516 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-ac97-codec 57540 1 snd-via82xx gameport4480 1 snd-via82xx snd-page-alloc 11972 2 snd-via82xx,snd-pcm snd-mpu401-uart 7072 1 snd-via82xx snd-rawmidi23616 1 snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-device 8008 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi snd52580 12 snd-seq-oss,snd The only thing that I can think of looking at this is that OSS isn't playing nice with ALSA. /sbin/chkconfig list --sound and --alsa give sound 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off It's not a KDE thing, since sound doesn't work in IceWM either, and it's not a hardware thing, as it works in that other operating system. Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet? Willow, she's seventeen! - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 13:46, robin wrote: OK, having installed 10.0, I now have supermount sorted out and (fingers crossed) nvidia drivers working. But I still have no sound. This is with the notorious onboard VIA chip. I've run through the troubleshooting process (not that I could understand much of what it told me) and followed all the advice on the Twiki, but still no sound. Here's what /etc/modules.conf says WHACK The only thing that I can think of looking at this is that OSS isn't playing nice with ALSA. WHACK It's not a KDE thing, since sound doesn't work in IceWM either, and it's not a hardware thing, as it works in that other operating system. Sir Robin ...and it's safe to assume that you've tried other drivers - like forcing ALSA? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- A gossip is one who talks to you about others, a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself. -- Lisa Kirk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 13:46, robin wrote: OK, having installed 10.0, I now have supermount sorted out and (fingers crossed) nvidia drivers working. But I still have no sound. This is with the notorious onboard VIA chip. I've run through the troubleshooting process (not that I could understand much of what it told me) and followed all the advice on the Twiki, but still no sound. Here's what /etc/modules.conf says WHACK The only thing that I can think of looking at this is that OSS isn't playing nice with ALSA. WHACK It's not a KDE thing, since sound doesn't work in IceWM either, and it's not a hardware thing, as it works in that other operating system. Sir Robin ...and it's safe to assume that you've tried other drivers - like forcing ALSA? How would I do that? Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet? Willow, she's seventeen! - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
On Sunday 21 March 2004 03:46, robin wrote: OK, having installed 10.0, I now have supermount sorted out and (fingers crossed) nvidia drivers working. But I still have no sound. This is with the notorious onboard VIA chip. I've run through the troubleshooting process (not that I could understand much of what it told me) and followed all the advice on the Twiki, but still no sound. Here's what /etc/modules.conf says probeall scsi_hostadapter sata_via probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd alias agpgart via-agp above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx dxs_support=2 (the last line was one I added after reading the Twiki) The relevant parts of the lsmod output are snd-seq-oss31264 0 snd-seq-midi-event 7552 1 snd-seq-oss snd-seq51248 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss51812 0 snd-mixer-oss 17824 1 snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx23648 0 snd-pcm93220 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-via82xx snd-timer 24516 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-ac97-codec 57540 1 snd-via82xx gameport4480 1 snd-via82xx snd-page-alloc 11972 2 snd-via82xx,snd-pcm snd-mpu401-uart 7072 1 snd-via82xx snd-rawmidi23616 1 snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-device 8008 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi snd52580 12 snd-seq-oss,snd The only thing that I can think of looking at this is that OSS isn't playing nice with ALSA. /sbin/chkconfig list --sound and --alsa give sound 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off It's not a KDE thing, since sound doesn't work in IceWM either, and it's not a hardware thing, as it works in that other operating system. Sir Robin Do applications 'seem' to play (progress indicator, terminating after a reasonable time)? -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:46:54 -0500 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what /etc/modules.conf says If you are running any of the 2.6.x kernels, they use modprobe.conf and modprobe.preload Not modules.conf Charles -- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its income. -- Samuel Butler, Notebooks -- Mandrake Linux 10.0 on BigBoy #184142 Registered Linux user #182463 *http://www.eslrahc.com* 2.6.4-1.tmb.1mdkenterprise -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 03:46, robin wrote: OK, having installed 10.0, I now have supermount sorted out and (fingers crossed) nvidia drivers working. But I still have no sound. This is with the notorious onboard VIA chip. I've run through the troubleshooting process (not that I could understand much of what it told me) and followed all the advice on the Twiki, but still no sound. Here's what /etc/modules.conf says probeall scsi_hostadapter sata_via probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd alias agpgart via-agp above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx dxs_support=2 (the last line was one I added after reading the Twiki) The relevant parts of the lsmod output are snd-seq-oss31264 0 snd-seq-midi-event 7552 1 snd-seq-oss snd-seq51248 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss51812 0 snd-mixer-oss 17824 1 snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx23648 0 snd-pcm93220 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-via82xx snd-timer 24516 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-ac97-codec 57540 1 snd-via82xx gameport4480 1 snd-via82xx snd-page-alloc 11972 2 snd-via82xx,snd-pcm snd-mpu401-uart 7072 1 snd-via82xx snd-rawmidi23616 1 snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-device 8008 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi snd52580 12 snd-seq-oss,snd The only thing that I can think of looking at this is that OSS isn't playing nice with ALSA. /sbin/chkconfig list --sound and --alsa give sound 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off It's not a KDE thing, since sound doesn't work in IceWM either, and it's not a hardware thing, as it works in that other operating system. Sir Robin Do applications 'seem' to play (progress indicator, terminating after a reasonable time)? Yes. Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet? Willow, she's seventeen! - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:46:54 -0500 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what /etc/modules.conf says If you are running any of the 2.6.x kernels, they use modprobe.conf and modprobe.preload Not modules.conf Hah! That was it - thanks. Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet? Willow, she's seventeen! - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still No Sound
Try this from root: # sndconfig That's the only way I've been able to get the sound card to work. I've never been able to get it to work from Lothar or any other xwindows equivalent. Good luck. Philip - Original Message - From: "David" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 3:26 AM Subject: [newbie] Still No Sound Hi ive installed Mandrake 7.1 on an IBM P3 550mhz desktop after the install mandrake failed to see the sound crystal chip, i then downloaded the Alsa rpm files on the mandrake website and the new hardrake rpms too. howerver there is still no sound :-(( ive chatted to people who have sound chips , rather than cards, and they have sound on their PCs so I must be doing something wrong but what ??? David
[newbie] Still No Sound
Hi ive installed Mandrake 7.1 on an IBM P3 550mhz desktop after the install mandrake failed to see the sound crystal chip, i then downloaded the Alsa rpm files on the mandrake website and the new hardrake rpms too. howerver there is still no sound :-(( ive chatted to people who have sound chips , rather than cards, and they have sound on their PCs so I must be doing something wrong but what ??? David
