Re: [newbie] Sound setup problems
Check that you've got an arts sound server running on your system - use gtop if you've installed it, its much friendlier than top. If you havent got it set to run on start up then you wont get any sound. 7.2 had problems with this that 8.0 has sorted. I'd advize a total reinstall if upgrading to 8.0, I tried an upgrade from 7.2 and had LOADS of trouble, just bakup yoour data and go for the clean instal, then go and get the security patches esp the bash patch if you do any C, and hopefully it'll all work. -Original Message- From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 21:18:17 -0500 To: milt [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound setup problems On Tuesday 22 May 2001 05:57 pm, you wrote: At 11:29 PM 5/21/2001 -0700, Todd Flinders wrote: After you've installed Linux Mandrake 7.2, just use Linuxconf to setup the LNE100TX. Crazy, I know, but that is what worked for me. With Linuxconf, I just chose the tulip driver it offered me in the drop down list. Thank you. I managed to get Linux setup to use my cable modem. I STILL can't get sound to work! I can't understand why! I've had a few times before where I have installed Linux and the sound worked without a hitch. I've disabled plug n play OS in my BIOS. I've tried looking for sndconfig and could find no such file anywhere. Harddrake won't see it its a Soundblaster Pro, old as dirt but it WILL see my USB Webcam! I don't understand what needs to be done to get my sound card to work! Anyone got any ideas? Please help! Just on the off chance, go to console mode and as root type in sndconfig. this should be completely out of a desktop GUI and in root console only. Hope that helps. As I recall under the creative labs soundblaster listings the pro showed up when I ran sndconfig. -- Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842 Linux-Mandrake on the desktop. -- ___ Get your free email from http://www.mail.com
Re: [newbie] Sound setup problems
At 12:00 AM 5/25/2001 +0800, Simon Naish wrote: Check that you've got an arts sound server running on your system - use gtop if you've installed it, its much friendlier than top. If you havent got it set to run on start up then you wont get any sound. 7.2 had problems with this that 8.0 has sorted. I'd advize a total reinstall if upgrading to 8.0, I tried an upgrade from 7.2 and had LOADS of trouble, just bakup yoour data and go for the clean instal, then go and get the security patches esp the bash patch if you do any C, and hopefully it'll all work. Well, I went and ran sndconfig, first had to install it, it was not even there! But I installed it, ran it, got the sound card setup right. Restarted, KDE starts up... I hear its opening sound. Great! Go to start XMMS and BAM the system totally and completly freezes up, I can't do ANYTHING. Hit the reset button, Linux has fits because it was not shutdown. Get the system back up. Load up the KDE Media player that loads, go into the file list, no problem, go to my windows drive with all my mp3 on it and as soon as I clicked no the drive, BAM total freeze up again. Anyone have any idea what is wrong now? This is getting frustrating that something as trivial as sound doesn't seem to work out of box but something brand new like USB support seems to work fine and see my webcam right away. Listen to my shoutcast cable/dsl: http://www.live365.com/stations/153859 56k: http://www.live365.com/stations/235300
Re: [newbie] Sound setup problems
Hmm... I just thought of something. What have you tried to get the sound working? Because I recall that the KDE that came default out of the box had sound issues. I don't think this affected xmms or CD playing, though. But you might upgrade KDE using MandrakeUpdate if you haven't already done so. Then this may fix the sound for KDE. What applications have you tried for sound? --- milt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:29 PM 5/21/2001 -0700, Todd Flinders wrote: After you've installed Linux Mandrake 7.2, just use Linuxconf to setup the LNE100TX. Crazy, I know, but that is what worked for me. With Linuxconf, I just chose the tulip driver it offered me in the drop down list. Thank you. I managed to get Linux setup to use my cable modem. I STILL can't get sound to work! I can't understand why! I've had a few times before where I have installed Linux and the sound worked without a hitch. I've disabled plug n play OS in my BIOS. I've tried looking for sndconfig and could find no such file anywhere. Harddrake won't see it its a Soundblaster Pro, old as dirt but it WILL see my USB Webcam! I don't understand what needs to be done to get my sound card to work! Anyone got any ideas? Please help! __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Sound setup problems
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 05:57 pm, you wrote: At 11:29 PM 5/21/2001 -0700, Todd Flinders wrote: After you've installed Linux Mandrake 7.2, just use Linuxconf to setup the LNE100TX. Crazy, I know, but that is what worked for me. With Linuxconf, I just chose the tulip driver it offered me in the drop down list. Thank you. I managed to get Linux setup to use my cable modem. I STILL can't get sound to work! I can't understand why! I've had a few times before where I have installed Linux and the sound worked without a hitch. I've disabled plug n play OS in my BIOS. I've tried looking for sndconfig and could find no such file anywhere. Harddrake won't see it its a Soundblaster Pro, old as dirt but it WILL see my USB Webcam! I don't understand what needs to be done to get my sound card to work! Anyone got any ideas? Please help! Just on the off chance, go to console mode and as root type in sndconfig. this should be completely out of a desktop GUI and in root console only. Hope that helps. As I recall under the creative labs soundblaster listings the pro showed up when I ran sndconfig. -- Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842 Linux-Mandrake on the desktop.
Re: [newbie] Sound setup problems
At 06:12 PM 5/22/2001 -0700, Todd Flinders wrote: Hmm... I just thought of something. What have you tried to get the sound working? Because I recall that the KDE that came default out of the box had sound issues. I don't think this affected xmms or CD playing, though. But you might upgrade KDE using MandrakeUpdate if you haven't already done so. Then this may fix the sound for KDE. What applications have you tried for sound? Well, I've tried xmms, haven't tried the CD player yet, but I can load the programs and they either say they can't access the sound card or it says something about making sure some audio server is running before running this program. I ran the updated earlier today and updated everything. I'm rather stumped on what to check next.
Re: [newbie] Sound Setup
Well first of all SORRY about the html! Second im not an idiot i can read the error! Sorry i couldnt remember the whole error from linux when im in windows - Original Message - From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 5:54 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Sound Setup First off, because someone is going to tell you anyway, turn off the html. It is considered poor netiquette. Secondly, it's not '(VERIFY N)', it's '(VERIFYLD N)' that goes in the file. -Original Message- From: Jamey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: December 18, 1999 10:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Setup Excuse me for asking for so much help! I just purchased linux about 2 days ago, and I think I'm doing fair for a first timer. Anyway my problem is: First of all I had a SB Live value card but i found out that linux did not support it, So I took it out and enable my onboard sound chip. Linux found it (By the way I have L-Mandrake 6.5) But when it probed it it came up with an error telling me to add (VERIFY N) into the sndconfg file. So I did and tryed again but this time when it probes the card it completely looks up so bad the only way out is RESET! Im wondering how I can edit it manually, Ive got all the info from windows ( Dual boot) . Or should i just purchase another sound card?
Re: [[newbie] Sound Setup]
"Jamey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment: MIME Type: multipart/alternative - Excuse me for asking for so much help! I just purchased linux about 2 days ago, and I think I'm doing fair for a first timer. Anyway my problem is: First of all I had a SB Live value card but i found out that linux did not support it, So I took it out and enable my onboard sound chip. Linux found it (By the way I have L-Mandrake 6.5) But when it probed it it came up with an error telling me to add (VERIFY N) into the sndconfg file. So I did and tryed again but this time when it probes the card it completely looks up so bad the only way out is RESET! Im wondering how I can edit it manually, Ive got all the info from windows ( Dual boot) . Or should i just purchase another sound card? = No, not yet. Try www.linuxnewbie.org They just published an article on this card today. Mike = ## Michael Scottaline Linux 2.2.13 ## Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
RE: [newbie] Sound Setup
Hi, I've been following the threads on getting a sblive card to work with Linux. I tried all the steps outlined in a previous link suggested (www.linuxnewbie.org), and as outlined herein, pretty much. At the step where you run the "make" command, I get this error: bash: make: command not found. Can anyone tell me what is wrong here? I'm using LM 6.5 with a typical install, as far as I know. Should I be using another shell or none at all? How do I run the "make" command? Thanks, -Original Message- From: Joseph S. Gardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 6:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Setup Jamey wrote: Well first of all SORRY about the html! Second im not an idiot i can read the error! Sorry i couldnt remember the whole error from linux when im in windows - Original Message - From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 5:54 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Sound Setup First off, because someone is going to tell you anyway, turn off the html. It is considered poor netiquette. Secondly, it's not '(VERIFY N)', it's '(VERIFYLD N)' that goes in the file. -Original Message- From: Jamey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: December 18, 1999 10:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Setup snip OK enough name calling. Lets see if we can keep this civil. I, myself being a newbie, had the same problem as you. I did however manage to get the silly thing to work by following the directions included with the readme that gets unzipped from the tarball. Note however that I found them to be a little confusing but by stumbling around I finally figured it out. Let's see if we can keep you from having the same problem. I'm going to assume you have very little knowledge (like myself) so forgive me if I go into too much detail, it's easier than assuming too much. NO RECOMPILING OF THE KERNEL SHOULD BE NEEDED, so don't panic. 8-) 1. log in as root ( I selected KDE as my login simply because I could easily open windows and move file around) 2. download the latest tarball from http://opensource.soundblaster.com to a temporary folder in your home 3. disconnect from the Internet (don't want to stay connected to long for security reasons) 4. from the KDE menu bar open your home directory and select the folder where you downloaded the tarball 5. with the cursor over the window press "CTRL + T" to open a terminal window (or open it from the file pull down menu) 6. in the new terminal window type "tar xvzf emu10k1.whatever.the.name.is". this should create a sub folder which will contain a whole bunch of files. the 2 important ones to you will be the readme and a "makefile", sorry I think that's the name. 7. tag the readme file and in there will be a whole lotta scary words like recompile and kernel - IGNORE THEM. just leave this window open so you can follow the directions. 8. using the "UP ARROW" buttons in your home window back out to the "root" directory and find the "/etc" folder and then the "/etc/conf.modules" file. right mouse click it and tag it. this should open an editor window and you can proceed screw things up from there (just kidding). 9. do a "save as" from the file pull down menu to give yourself a back up, something like old.conf.modules and close the window. Very important here. if you don't close the file after saving and editing it the computer will NOT recognize the saved information - this cost me several days of head banging trying to figure out what I did wrong. 10. refresh the folder window and select the "conf.modules" file. this shooed open the file in a new editor window. 11. the readme file tells you to remove the lines referring to "soundcore". go ahead and remove them (if you've got any, it is possible you may not if you haven't installed any other sound cards) then add the "alias -something-something- sound" line at the end of the file per the "readme" file. 12. next add the two lines referring to the "insmod -something-something" (can you tell I have a poor memory and am not sitting in front of my linux box 8-)). 13. save the file and CLOSE the editor, you're done with the scary part. 14. go back to your "home" directory window and press the home icon in the tool bar. next select the temp folder with the downloaded tarball file, then the "emu10k1" sub folder until you see the "readme" and "makefile" files again. now open a terminal window (CTRL + T). important, you must be in the sub folder when doing the next step. 15. now you're ready to compile the sound module a. type "make" b.
RE: [newbie] Sound Setup
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hi, I've been following the threads on getting a sblive card to work with Linux. I tried all the steps outlined in a previous link suggested (www.linuxnewbie.org), and as outlined herein, pretty much. At the step where you run the "make" command, I get this error: bash: make: command not found. Can anyone tell me what is wrong here? I'm using LM 6.5 with a typical install, as far as I know. Should I be using another shell or none at all? How do I run the "make" command? Thanks, Have you compiled anything before? If not, you may not have the c-compiler installed. John
Re: [newbie] Sound Setup
Thomas Cox wrote: Hi, I've been following the threads on getting a sblive card to work with Linux. I tried all the steps outlined in a previous link suggested (www.linuxnewbie.org), and as outlined herein, pretty much. At the step where you run the "make" command, I get this error: bash: make: command not found. Can anyone tell me what is wrong here? I'm using LM 6.5 with a typical install, as far as I know. Should I be using another shell or none at all? How do I run the "make" command? Thanks, snip Are you running it as "root"? -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Sound Setup
First off, because someone is going to tell you anyway, turn off the html. It is considered poor netiquette. Secondly, it's not '(VERIFY N)', it's '(VERIFYLD N)' that goes in the file. -Original Message- From: Jamey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: December 18, 1999 10:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Setup Excuse me for asking for so much help! I just purchased linux about 2 days ago, and I think I'm doing fair for a first timer. Anyway my problem is: First of all I had a SB Live value card but i found out that linux did not support it, So I took it out and enable my onboard sound chip. Linux found it (By the way I have L-Mandrake 6.5) But when it probed it it came up with an error telling me to add (VERIFY N) into the sndconfg file. So I did and tryed again but this time when it probes the card it completely looks up so bad the only way out is RESET! Im wondering how I can edit it manually, Ive got all the info from windows ( Dual boot) . Or should i just purchase another sound card?
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.
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
