Re: [newbie] Sound in a laptop

[Miark]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:23:08 -0600, Teilhard wrote:

 I just installed Mandrake 10.1 on top of 10.0 in my laptop.
 That's the only  way I can get the multithread boot option. My
 problem is that I have no  sound. For what I gather the problem
 is that /dev/dsp does not exist in my  system. I have gone
 through the troubleshooter and the driver doesn't seem  to be
 loaded. I will appreciate any advise.

Try running sndconfig. If that doesn't do the job, try alsaconf
which is part of also-utils.


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Re: [newbie] sound recording in Mandrake 10

[Greg Meyer]

On Thursday 06 January 2005 10:59 pm, Paul Greene wrote:
 What's a good Linux application to use for digitizing music from a
 cassette tape player connected to the microphone jack on a PC soundcard?

 I have a bunch of older cassette tapes that I'd like to burn to CD
 and/or copy to disk.

Try Audacity
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Re: [newbie] sound recording in Mandrake 10

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Paul Greene wrote:
What's a good Linux application to use for digitizing music from a 
cassette tape player connected to the microphone jack on a PC soundcard?

I have a bunch of older cassette tapes that I'd like to burn to CD 
and/or copy to disk.

PG
You will have beter luck using the line in jack instead of the 
microphone jack if you are connecting directly from a tape player. If 
the player has line out or RCA jacks, these work better then the 
headphone jacks. The speaker jacks are the last resort. If you have to 
use them, keep the output turned down below midrange. You will have to 
play with it a bit to see what works with your sound card.

Mikkel
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Re: [newbie] sound recording in Mandrake 10

[Aron Smith]

On Thursday 06 January 2005 07:59 pm, Paul Greene wrote:
 What's a good Linux application to use for digitizing music from a
 cassette tape player connected to the microphone jack on a PC soundcard?

 I have a bunch of older cassette tapes that I'd like to burn to CD
 and/or copy to disk.
Audacity is cool

 PG


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Re: [newbie] Sound on 10.1

[Anne Wilson]

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On Wednesday 29 Dec 2004 03:42, Chris wrote:
 On Monday 27 December 2004 03:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
  On Monday 27 Dec 2004 02:09, Chris wrote:
   Got it figured out, thanks to a year old msg from Derek that I found
   the archives.
 
  Chris, for the sake of others, please say what you did to solve it.
 
  Anne

 Sure Anne, here is Derek's input which I followed:

 To install the Alsa driver

 1/ Install the alsa-utils, alsamixergui, and newt packages (If not already
 installed)

 2/ Make a backup copy of /etc/modules.conf

 3/ In a root terminal run alsaconf
 Alsaconf will write a new modules.conf file with the correct settings for
 your sound card.

 4/ Copy back by hand those lines in the old modules.conf which are not
 sound related.

 5/ Reboot into the new sound driver, and in
 KDEControlCentreSoundSoundSystem set the sound server to Alsa

 6/ Use alsamixergui to select default sound levels and save them.

 7/ In xmms it may work better if you select the Output Plugin to be alsa.


 If it does not work replace the alsaconf generated lines in modules.conf
 with the ones from your backup.

 I followed the above and automagically - sound.

Thanks, Chris.  That makes it available in the archives again.

On a related topic, some time ago I reported the bug that makes it overwrite 
modules.conf, but MandrakeSoft have changed the bug reporting regime, and in 
doing so have closed bugs that have not been voted for recently.  This is the 
message I got from them:

http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/query.php?bug=1031

- --- 10312004-12-24 01:05:33.0 +0100
+++ 1031.tmp.Yme2mA 2004-12-24 01:05:33.0 +0100
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Bug#   : 1031
 Product: Mandrake Linux 10.0
 Version: x86
- -Status : NEW
+Status : CLOSED
 Priority   : Normal
 Component  : alsa-utils
 URL:
@@ -23,3 +23,12 @@
 This bug has been reassigned to [EMAIL PROTECTED]


+Comment posted: 2004-12-24 01:05 AM by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+
+If this report is still valid, please re-report it to Bugzilla:
+
+http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/
+
+Thank you.
+
+

If you could report to Bugzilla that it is still valid it would be helpful.  
Once a bug report number is given to you, please post it here, so that others 
can confirm your report.

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Re: [newbie] Sound on 10.1

[Chris]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 04:35 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
 On Wednesday 29 Dec 2004 03:42, Chris wrote:
  On Monday 27 December 2004 03:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
   On Monday 27 Dec 2004 02:09, Chris wrote:
Got it figured out, thanks to a year old msg from Derek that I found
the archives.
  
   Chris, for the sake of others, please say what you did to solve it.
  
   Anne


 If you could report to Bugzilla that it is still valid it would be helpful.
 Once a bug report number is given to you, please post it here, so that
 others can confirm your report.

 Anne

Tried several times to connect to http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com, but Mozilla 
just kept trying and the site never came up.  I'll try again later today, 
unless I have the link wrong.

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Re: [newbie] Sound on 10.1

[Anne Wilson]

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On Wednesday 29 Dec 2004 19:10, Chris wrote:
 On Wednesday 29 December 2004 04:35 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
  On Wednesday 29 Dec 2004 03:42, Chris wrote:
   On Monday 27 December 2004 03:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 27 Dec 2004 02:09, Chris wrote:
 Got it figured out, thanks to a year old msg from Derek that I
 found the archives.
   
Chris, for the sake of others, please say what you did to solve it.
   
Anne
 
  If you could report to Bugzilla that it is still valid it would be
  helpful. Once a bug report number is given to you, please post it here,
  so that others can confirm your report.
 
  Anne

 Tried several times to connect to http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com, but
 Mozilla just kept trying and the site never came up.  I'll try again later
 today, unless I have the link wrong.

No, look again at the message.  It has to go to qa.mandrakesoft.com now.

Anne
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Re: [newbie] Sound on 10.1

[Chris]

On Monday 27 December 2004 03:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
 On Monday 27 Dec 2004 02:09, Chris wrote:
  Got it figured out, thanks to a year old msg from Derek that I found the
  archives.

 Chris, for the sake of others, please say what you did to solve it.

 Anne

Sure Anne, here is Derek's input which I followed:

To install the Alsa driver

1/ Install the alsa-utils, alsamixergui, and newt packages (If not already 
installed)

2/ Make a backup copy of /etc/modules.conf

3/ In a root terminal run alsaconf
Alsaconf will write a new modules.conf file with the correct settings for your 
sound card.

4/ Copy back by hand those lines in the old modules.conf which are not sound 
related.

5/ Reboot into the new sound driver, and in KDEControlCentreSoundSoundSystem 
set the sound server to Alsa

6/ Use alsamixergui to select default sound levels and save them.

7/ In xmms it may work better if you select the Output Plugin to be alsa.


If it does not work replace the alsaconf generated lines in modules.conf with 
the ones from your backup.

I followed the above and automagically - sound.  

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Re: [newbie] Sound on 10.1

[Chris]

On Sunday 26 December 2004 02:02 pm, Chris wrote:
 I had sound for a few minutes this morning, now its gone.  When going to
 MCCSystem Alsa is shown as stopped, when trying to restart I get this
 error:

 Doing alsactl to store mixer settings..OK
 Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 1.0.6): /dev/snd/controlC0:no
 (sound is being used by pid )) FAILED
 ALSA driver (version 1.0.6) is already running.

 I've had this problem before in 9.0 I think but can't remember how I
 corrected it.  I looked through the archives but can't seem to find anyone
 with the same problem.  FWIW, Totem has no sound either.  I've already
 disabled system sounds in KDE control center.

 Thanks for any help

Got it figured out, thanks to a year old msg from Derek that I found the 
archives.

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Re: [newbie] Sound on 10.1

[Anne Wilson]

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On Monday 27 Dec 2004 02:09, Chris wrote:

 Got it figured out, thanks to a year old msg from Derek that I found the
 archives.

Chris, for the sake of others, please say what you did to solve it.

Anne
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Re: [newbie] Sound Driver Error

[care free]

From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Driver Error
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:45:32 +
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On Friday 17 Dec 2004 19:32, care free wrote:
 Go here http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0292  for nForce 2
 driver

Could you please add that tidbit to the TWiki?
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SoUnd
Anne
It's done, Anne.
J.T.


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Re: [newbie] Sound Driver Error

[Anne Wilson]

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On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 21:43, care free wrote:
 From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 It's done, Anne.

Thanks

Anne
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RE: [newbie] Sound Driver Error

[care free]

From: Ayn Newin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Sound Driver Error
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:22:31 -0500
I've just install Mandrake 10.1 and i've been receiving an error message 
saying there is a problem with my sound card/driver.  I've seen this error 
message twice, once when trying to start KsCD application and once when 
starting linux.  I've not been able to make the error reappear and have not 
seen it appear at any other time.

From memory the error simply states there is a problem with my sound 
card/driver, and that the directory /dev/dsp cannot be found.  I've tried 
creating this folder within /dev and it says access is denied.
You cannot create the file  /dev/dsp.  It's device driver file which is soft 
linked to the file in /dev/sound/dsp.

 Also, when trying to start Audacity i am prompted with the error message:
There was an error initializing the audio i/o layer.
You will not be able to play or record audio.
Error:  Host error
Obviously i cannot hear music CDs, or any sounds for that matter, and 
cannot begin to realize what the problem is. That's where you come in.

For reference my sound card is described as nForce2 Audio Codec Interface 
in HardDrake, with the driver listed as snd-intel8x0.
What driver do you use? alsa, arts, oss?  You can go to  
www.alsa-project.org  to check for possible solution.

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RE: [newbie] Sound Driver Error

[care free]

Go here http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0292  for nForce 2 
driver

J.T.
From: Ayn Newin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Sound Driver Error
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:22:31 -0500
I've just install Mandrake 10.1 and i've been receiving an error message 
saying there is a problem with my sound card/driver.  I've seen this error 
message twice, once when trying to start KsCD application and once when 
starting linux.  I've not been able to make the error reappear and have not 
seen it appear at any other time.

From memory the error simply states there is a problem with my sound 
card/driver, and that the directory /dev/dsp cannot be found.  I've tried 
creating this folder within /dev and it says access is denied.  Also, when 
trying to start Audacity i am prompted with the error message:

There was an error initializing the audio i/o layer.
You will not be able to play or record audio.
Error:  Host error
Obviously i cannot hear music CDs, or any sounds for that matter, and 
cannot begin to realize what the problem is. That's where you come in.

For reference my sound card is described as nForce2 Audio Codec Interface 
in HardDrake, with the driver listed as snd-intel8x0.

~ Ayn



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Re: [newbie] Sound Driver Error

[Anne Wilson]

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On Friday 17 Dec 2004 19:32, care free wrote:
 Go here http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0292  for nForce 2
 driver

Could you please add that tidbit to the TWiki?  
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SoUnd

Anne
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Re: [newbie] Sound system compatibility

[Frans Ketelaars]

On Friday 10 December 2004 23:49, Simon Roberts wrote:
 Sorry to ask this, as it's probably in the HW compatiblity lists if I
 only knew what to look for.

 I would like to use a USB sound system on MDK 10.1. Are these systems
 built to a standard, such that any USB sound card will work, or
 does each have it's own proprietary driver protocols, such that none
 of them will work?

 The one I like the look of is made by Edirol, and can do 24 bit
 conversion at up to 48Khz, it also has some funky features that I'm
 not so worried about if they can't be made to work.

 Is this likely to be workable, or are USB sound systems to freaky to
 contemplate?

 Cheers,
 Simon

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ says: All USB devices that are 
standards compliant will work. If they do not please report to the 
mailing lists.

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-Roland_Edirol#matrix
 
lists the Roland/Edirol devices.

HTH,

-Frans



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Re: [newbie] Sound system compatibility

[Simon Roberts]

Many thanks Frans, this moved me forward a lot. I've got my hands on an Edirol 
UA-3FX, which--as Murphy would insist--isn't on the list! Given that pretty 
much all the Edirols seem to be listed as working, I'm hoping this might just 
be a newer device that hasn't been tried yet. So I plugged it in, but I don't 
know how to access it. I tried some of the sound players, hoping they'd have 
some option that would say hey, which of these sound devices do you want to 
use? but they just kept on playing out of the built-in sound system that's on 
the motherboard.

Does anyone know where I should be looking for config info to tell the audio 
tools to look for this thing (assuming, of course, that it's acually doing it's 
thing). I looked for a USB howto on the ALSA site, but haven't found any 
mention of it (there is a USB/MIDI howto, but I'm not into MIDI, I want to 
record live sound)

Thanks again

-Original Message-

On Friday 10 December 2004 23:49, Simon Roberts wrote:
...
 I would like to use a USB sound system on MDK 10.1. Are these systems
 built to a standard, such that any USB sound card will work, or
 does each have it's own proprietary driver protocols, such that none
 of them will work?
...

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ says: All USB devices that are 
standards compliant will work. If they do not please report to the 
mailing lists.

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-Roland_Edirol#matrix
 
lists the Roland/Edirol devices.

HTH,

-Frans





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Re: [newbie] Sound problem

[Keith Powell]

Thank you for your reply, Carefree.

Very much edited, my original posting said:

 
 From: Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a
 digital output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages:

 Unable to open the audio device.  /dev/sound/dsp

 There is a /dev/sound/dsp and also a /dev/dsp (to which I have
 tried changing the setting in the error box).

 Starting it in a terminal, gives:

 inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000
 Cannot open audio device /dev/sound/dsp: Invalid argument

 I have tried changing
 System-Configuration-KDE-Sound-sound System-Hardware
 to a custom sampling rate of 8000, but still the same error
 messages.
 
  I get this additional error message, titled  Informational -
  artsmessage:
 
 Sound server informational message.
 
 Error while initializing the sound driver.
 
 can't get requested samplingrate (requested rate 8000, got rate
  48000) The sound server will continue, using the null output
  device.
 
On Wednesday 08 Dec 2004 04:01, care free wrote:
 What brand of soundcard do you have?   

It's an on-board AC'97 chip, which I think may be the problem. From 
what I have been able to find out, I don't think that the sampling 
rate can be changed.

 What version of MDK do you have on your box?  

It's 10.0. but I am going to upgrade to 10.1.

 Do you choose auto detect or other options?

Yes, I chose auto detect. If I try any other settings, I lose sound 
completely.

I get the same problem with two other Linux distros, that's why I think 
it is the sound chip. There are still the error messages if I select 
alsa, but again I lose all sound. However, alsa works and the errant 
program works, with my Libranet (Debian based) distro. I have been 
trying various distros on my spare hard drive to find out what happens 
with each of them.

As I am going to upgrade my machine soon, I think that I will abandon 
this until I have changed. I'll see what happens then. 

Thanks for your help

Keith 


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Re: [newbie] Sound problem

[care free]

What brand of soundcard do you have?What version of MDK do you have on 
your box?  I have so much sound problem and CD-ROM drive lockups with no CD 
in them for no reasons with 10.0.  I've switched to 10.1 Community recently 
and it solves those problems.  I'm going to upgrade my box to 10.1 official 
soom.
My soundcard is a Creative Blaster64.
Do you choose auto detect or other options?

J.T.

From: Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound problem
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 11:06:09 +
care free wrote:
 First, do you have any analog sound at all?
 How many users do you have on your box?  Issue ls -al in /dev/sound
 to see who owns the files in that directory.  I had quite similar
 problems with mdk 10.0.  After logging into the box, a user own those
 device files.  However, those files are not released.  So when the
 next person logs into the system, those files are still owned by the
 previous user, and the sound system does not work at all.  I have to
 log in as root and issue chmod 666 * in /dev/sound/ so that other can
 read and write to those device files.  I close the mixer and then
 restart it.  There is sound again.  /dev/dsp is a soft link
 to /dev/sound/dsp.

 JT

 From: Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [newbie] Sound problem.
 Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 20:43:26 +

 This has probably been answered before, but I can't find it in the
 archives, on twiki or on Derek's site.

 I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a
 digital output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages:

 Unable to open the audio device.  /dev/sound/dsp

 There is a /dev/sound/dsp and also a /dev/dsp (to which I have tried
 changing the setting in the error box).

 Starting it in a terminal, gives:

 inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000 Cannot
 open audio device /dev/sound/dsp: Invalid argument

 I have tried changing
 System-Configuration-KDE-Sound-sound System-Hardware
 to a custom sampling rate of 8000, but still the same error
 messages.

 Until I upgrade the computer, it is on-board sound, not a sound
 card.

 Any advice, please?

 Many thanks

 Keith

Thanks for your help, carefree.
I do have analogue sound - well I did until a few days ago when my CD
drive packed up. A replacement is on the list.
There is only me uses the computer. My wife isn't interested in using
it.
Sorry, but I have done as you suggested and there are still the same
error messages. I have even tried running the program as root. No
difference. However, on starting the computer now, I get this
additional error message, titled  Informational - artsmessage:
Sound server informational message.
Error while initializing the sound driver.
can't get requested samplingrate (requested rate 8000, got rate 48000)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
Originally, ls -al showed that root owned everything in /dev/sound
Any further advice, please?
Cheers
Keith

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Re: [newbie] Sound problem

[Keith Powell]

care free wrote:
 First, do you have any analog sound at all?
 How many users do you have on your box?  Issue ls -al in /dev/sound 
 to see who owns the files in that directory.  I had quite similar
 problems with mdk 10.0.  After logging into the box, a user own those
 device files.  However, those files are not released.  So when the
 next person logs into the system, those files are still owned by the
 previous user, and the sound system does not work at all.  I have to
 log in as root and issue chmod 666 * in /dev/sound/ so that other can
 read and write to those device files.  I close the mixer and then
 restart it.  There is sound again.  /dev/dsp is a soft link
 to /dev/sound/dsp. 
 
 JT
 
 From: Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [newbie] Sound problem.
 Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 20:43:26 +

 This has probably been answered before, but I can't find it in the
 archives, on twiki or on Derek's site.

 I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a 
 digital output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages:

 Unable to open the audio device.  /dev/sound/dsp

 There is a /dev/sound/dsp and also a /dev/dsp (to which I have tried
 changing the setting in the error box).

 Starting it in a terminal, gives:

 inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000 Cannot
 open audio device /dev/sound/dsp: Invalid argument

 I have tried changing
 System-Configuration-KDE-Sound-sound System-Hardware
 to a custom sampling rate of 8000, but still the same error
 messages. 

 Until I upgrade the computer, it is on-board sound, not a sound
 card. 

 Any advice, please?

 Many thanks

 Keith


Thanks for your help, carefree.

I do have analogue sound - well I did until a few days ago when my CD 
drive packed up. A replacement is on the list.

There is only me uses the computer. My wife isn't interested in using 
it.

Sorry, but I have done as you suggested and there are still the same 
error messages. I have even tried running the program as root. No 
difference. However, on starting the computer now, I get this 
additional error message, titled  Informational - artsmessage:

Sound server informational message.

Error while initializing the sound driver.

can't get requested samplingrate (requested rate 8000, got rate 48000)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.


Originally, ls -al showed that root owned everything in /dev/sound

Any further advice, please?

Cheers

Keith


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Re: [newbie] Sound problem.

[Keith Powell]

** An update. **
Keith Powell wrote:
I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a digital 
output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages:

Unable to open the audio device.  /dev/sound/dsp
There is a /dev/sound/dsp and also a /dev/dsp (to which I have tried 
changing the setting in the error box).

Starting it in a terminal, gives:
inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000 Cannot open 
audio device /dev/sound/dsp: Invalid argument

I have tried changing 
System-Configuration-KDE-Sound-sound System-Hardware
to a custom sampling rate of 8000, but still the same error messages.

Until I upgrade the computer, it is on-board sound, not a sound card.
I spent sometime trying various things, but always the error messages.
So I installed the Libranet distro on a spare hard drive. It's a Debian 
based distro and I haven't used it for some time.

Running to .deb version of the offending program, gave the same error 
messages.

In the Libranet Control Centre, I installed and configured alsa. 
Tried the program again and it worked without error messages.

Back to Mandrake and I installed everything to do with alsa that I could 
find. Changed the KDE-sound-system sound-hardware setting from auto 
to alsa and tried the program (it's a KDE program) again. Nothing! 
Just the same error messages.

So I have the program running using alsa in one distro, but not running 
using alsa in another distro. Very odd.

Incidentally, selecting custom setting of the sampling rate in the 
hardware section of KDE sound settings, kills the sound completely. 
There are no system sounds.

That's as far as I have got.
Cheers
Keith

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RE: [newbie] Sound problem.

[care free]

First, do you have any analog sound at all?
How many users do you have on your box?  Issue ls -al in /dev/sound to see 
who owns the files in that directory.  I had quite similar problems with mdk 
10.0.  After logging into the box, a user own those device files.  However, 
those files are not released.  So when the next person logs into the system, 
those files are still owned by the previous user, and the sound system does 
not work at all.  I have to log in as root and issue chmod 666 * in 
/dev/sound/ so that other can read and write to those device files.  I close 
the mixer and then restart it.  There is sound again.  /dev/dsp is a soft 
link to /dev/sound/dsp.

JT
From: Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Sound problem.
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 20:43:26 +
This has probably been answered before, but I can't find it in the
archives, on twiki or on Derek's site.
I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a digital
output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages:
Unable to open the audio device.  /dev/sound/dsp
There is a /dev/sound/dsp and also a /dev/dsp (to which I have tried
changing the setting in the error box).
Starting it in a terminal, gives:
inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000 Cannot open
audio device /dev/sound/dsp: Invalid argument
I have tried changing
System-Configuration-KDE-Sound-sound System-Hardware
to a custom sampling rate of 8000, but still the same error messages.
Until I upgrade the computer, it is on-board sound, not a sound card.
Any advice, please?
Many thanks
Keith

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Re: [newbie] sound in mdk 9 vs sound in mdk 10

[Wojciech Podgrni]

Uytkownik Lovell Mcilwain napisa:
Hello all,
I remember sending a post a while back about my sound not working on 
mdk 10 with the machine I had it installed all.

Now it seems I am having the same problem but its slightly different.
In the case of last time I was running mdk 10 on an old micron laptop 
and it didn't recognized my sound card until I rand the sndconf utility.

In the case of this machine I am using at work I am running mdk 9 on 
an old micron desktop and it did recognize my sound card as a YMF-740C 
[ds-1L Audio Controller].  All seems fine until I try to play 
something on xmms.  I can see the file playing but I don't hear any 
sound.  I checked to make sure that the sound server was enabled, I 
made sure that the OS volume was up, and I made sure the the physical 
volume on the machine was up and I still don't hear anything.

Can any one tell me of a utility that I can use to try and test sound 
wth different drivers or tell me how I can get these drivers to work?  
I did try re running sndconf but my system doesn't recognize that 
command (even as root)

Thanks in advance guys!
L
Have you installed xmms-arts and set xmms to use arts as audio output 
plugin (of course after you made sure artsd is up)? Do other media 
programs (such as xine, totem, mplayer) work?

Wojciech Podgrni


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Re: [newbie] sound in mdk 9 vs sound in mdk 10

[Q.H. Wang]

Have you installed ALSA related RPMs? You may find alsaconf and alsactl 
very useful in such a situation. HTH.

Q.H. Wang


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Re: [newbie] Sound Level Settings Keeps Going Back to Mute

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 30 Oct 2004 22:34, Sevatio wrote:
 For some reason, Mdk10.1ce's audio level settings keep going back to
 mute everytime I log back into KDE.  How do you make it remember your
 settings?

 Thanks,
 Sevatio

I think the command is
alsactl -save
from a root console

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Re: [newbie] Sound DVD problems

[Dennis Myers]

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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Re: [newbie] Sound card not working

[Lyvim Xaphir]

On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 00:13, Aldous Huxley wrote:
 When I first installed 10.0, the alsa driver worked,
 but sounded like shit...very distorted, like a cheap
 stereo system with the volume too high.  I tinkered
 with settings (stupidly) without tracking what I was
 doing in order to undo if problems occured (which
 did).  Um...I'd like to have sound back without having
 to reinstall everything...suggestions would be
 appreciated.  Thanks.
 

If you want the best quality sound drivers with the most features, I
highly recommend you go to opensound.com and download the drivers for
your sound card.  OSS is superior to Alsa.

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Re: [newbie] Sound card not working

[The Other]

Lyvim Xaphir disseminated the following:
If you want the best quality sound drivers with the most   
features, I
highly recommend you go to opensound.com and download the drivers  
for your sound card.  OSS is superior to Alsa.
Wha? All this time people have been telling me the opposite, 'OSS  
is old', 'ALSA is the future of sound on Linux'
Lyvim, I'm also curious why you say OSS is superior to ALSA.  From  
what I've been reading on the Linux-Audio-User list, OSS is rarely  
mentioned.  It appears all the efforts to develop sound applications  
and utilities are using ALSA.  And if I'm not mistaken, I've seen  
posts from you on the Linux-Audio-User list.

You've intriqued me.  Please explain your reasons.
Stephen.

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Re: [newbie] Sound card not working

[JoeHill]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:13:35 -0700 (PDT)
Aldous Huxley disseminated the following:

 When I first installed 10.0, the alsa driver worked,
 but sounded like shit...very distorted, like a cheap
 stereo system with the volume too high.  I tinkered
 with settings (stupidly) without tracking what I was
 doing in order to undo if problems occured (which
 did).  Um...I'd like to have sound back without having
 to reinstall everything...suggestions would be
 appreciated.  Thanks.

1st back up your /etc/modules.conf (in 10.0 I believe it's called something
slightly different, at least if you are running the 2.6 kernel). Then run
'alsaconf' as root. Now, from your backup modules.conf, add back the lines
deleted by running alsaconf, to do with your video, usb, etc.

You may need to do a service sound restart, if the alsaconf utility doesn't do
it for you (can't remember ATM).

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Re: [newbie] sound and SiS7012

[András Keszei]

Hi Maryse,
I have a laptop from AGN that's really a Clevo something, and it has a
SiS7012 chipset.  I'm using the snd-intel8x0 module, and I think that
you have to enable ACPI to get sound to work. (You can do this when
configuring lilo (Mandrake Control Center - Boot - Boot Loader)
Now I haven't the faintest where I got this info from, but I do remember
that sound didn't work straight out of the box, and I had to tinker a
bit, and enabling ACPI was one of these things I remember doing.
So much at first glance, I'll also do a bit of googling, and get back if
I find some hard links on the topic. (I'll also need them again sooner
or later)
cheers
Andras

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:39, M.Schild wrote:
 Does anyone have a SiS7012 chipset? If so, have you succeeded in getting any 
 sound on Mdk10? how?
 TIA
 Maryse
 
 
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Re: [newbie] sound and SiS7012-works

[M.Schild]

 Hi Maryse,
 I have a laptop from AGN that's really a Clevo something, and it has a
 SiS7012 chipset.  I'm using the snd-intel8x0 module, and I think that
 you have to enable ACPI to get sound to work. (You can do this when
 configuring lilo (Mandrake Control Center - Boot - Boot Loader)
 Now I haven't the faintest where I got this info from, but I do remember
 that sound didn't work straight out of the box, and I had to tinker a
 bit, and enabling ACPI was one of these things I remember doing.
 So much at first glance, I'll also do a bit of googling, and get back if
 I find some hard links on the topic. (I'll also need them again sooner
 or later)
 cheers
 Andras


Well, I don´t know what I did but I disinstalled Alsa, reinstalled, rechecked 
everything and now it works! Don´t ask me why.
Than you all
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Re: [newbie] Sound is missing from MDK 9.0

[Hoyt Bailey]

On Wednesday 04 August 2004 18:08, Chris wrote:
 I guess my I borked my system subj just didn't cut it :( so I'll
 try with this one.  The other night the system went to hell in a
 handbasket for some reason.  Couldn't get anything to work right.  I
 did an 'upgrade' from the MDK 9.0 cds and then reloaded my backed up
 KDE setup.  However, now I have no sound and XMMS won't load.  When
 booting I get

  Error while initializing the sound driver:  Device: default can't
 be opened for playback (no such file or directory) The sound server
 will continue, using the null output device.

 Output of lsmod is below:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]# lsmod
 Module  Size  Used byTainted: P
 snd-pcm-oss36932   0  (unused)
 snd-pcm55808   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
 snd-timer   9964   0  [snd-pcm]
 snd-mixer-oss   9016   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
 snd24804   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm snd-timer
 snd-mixer-oss]
 via686a 8512   0  (unused)
 eeprom  3476   0  (unused)
 lm753232   0  (unused)
 i2c-proc7088   0  [via686a eeprom lm75]
 i2c-viapro  3920   0  (unused)
 agpgart31840   3  (autoclean)
 lp  6720   0
 parport_pc 21672   1
 parport23936   1  [lp parport_pc]
 sr_mod 15096   0  (autoclean) (unused)
 floppy 49340   0  (autoclean)
 via82cxxx_audio19036   0
 uart401 6628   0  [via82cxxx_audio]
 sound  55732   0  [via82cxxx_audio uart401]
 es1371 26568   0
 soundcore   3780   0  [snd via82cxxx_audio sound es1371]
 ac97_codec  9928   0  [via82cxxx_audio es1371]
 gameport1660   0  [es1371]
 af_packet  13000   1  (autoclean)
 ip_vs  74328   0  (autoclean)
 ipt_ttl  600   0  (autoclean)
 ipt_limit856   0  (autoclean)
 ipt_unclean 6616   0  (autoclean)
 ipt_TOS  984   0
 ipt_REDIRECT 760   0  (unused)
 ipt_REJECT  2744   0  (unused)
 ip_conntrack_irc3056   0  (unused)
 ip_conntrack_ftp3952   0  (unused)
 i2c-isa 1224   0  (unused)
 i2c-core   15332   0  [via686a eeprom lm75 i2c-proc
 i2c-viapro i2c-isa]
 ipt_LOG 3384   0  (autoclean)
 ipt_state568   0  (autoclean)
 iptable_filter  1644   0  (autoclean)
 ipt_MASQUERADE  1272   0  (autoclean)
 iptable_nat15224   0  (autoclean) [ipt_REDIRECT
 ipt_MASQUERADE] ip_conntrack   18400   4  (autoclean)
 [ipt_REDIRECT ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp ipt_state
 ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat]
 iptable_mangle  2072   0  (autoclean)
 ip_tables  11672  14  [ipt_ttl ipt_limit ipt_unclean
 ipt_TOS ipt_REDIRECT ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG ipt_state iptable_filter
 ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat iptable_mangle]
 8139too14472   1  (autoclean)
 mii 1152   0  (autoclean) [8139too]
 ide-cd 28712   0
 cdrom  26848   0  [sr_mod ide-cd]
 ide-scsi8212   0
 scsi_mod   90372   2  [sr_mod ide-scsi]
 NVdriver 1065920  10
 usb-uhci   21676   0  (unused)
 usbcore58304   1  [usb-uhci]
 rtc 6560   0  (autoclean)
 ext3   74004   3
 jbd38452   3  [ext3]

 Also, when trying to run xmms from the cli it shows:

 ** WARNING **: snd_mixer_attach: No such device

 Also, under system  services, I've got Alsa set to start at boot,
 however, it shows it stopped.  If I click 'start' it says Alsa driver
 isn't running. No kidding, I knew that.

 Any ideas anyone?  It wouldn't be so bad but I miss my streaming
 audio from Virgin Radio, UK.
No clue but if it helps: 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# lsmod
Module  Size  Used by
sg 38044  0
st 38616  0
sr_mod 17028  0
sd_mod 16832  0
scsi_mod  114648  4 sg,st,sr_mod,sd_mod
binfmt_misc 9960  1
autofs414656  2
lp 12200  0
parport_pc 32832  1
parport38952  2 lp,parport_pc
snd-seq-oss31232  0
snd-seq-midi-event  7552  1 snd-seq-oss
snd-seq51024  4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event
snd-pcm-oss51812  0
snd-mixer-oss  17952  1 snd-pcm-oss
snd-via82xx24128  1
snd-pcm93156  2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-via82xx
snd-timer  24484  2 snd-seq,snd-pcm
snd-ac97-codec 58148  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 

Re: [newbie] Sound is missing from MDK 9.0

[Chris]

On Wednesday 04 August 2004 08:04 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
 On Wednesday 04 August 2004 18:08, Chris wrote:
  I guess my I borked my system subj just didn't cut it :( so I'll
  try with this one.  The other night the system went to hell in a
  handbasket for some reason.  Couldn't get anything to work right.  I
  did an 'upgrade' from the MDK 9.0 cds and then reloaded my backed up
  KDE setup.  However, now I have no sound and XMMS won't load.  When
  booting I get
 

Thanks Hoyt, I figured it out.

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Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster MP3+

[Frans Ketelaars]

On Sunday 25 July 2004 15:11, Eric Jackson wrote:
 Hi,

 I have a Sound Blaster MP3+ USB soundcard installed on my Windows
 laptop. It runs fine.

 I tried to unstall it on my linux box running 10.0 Official. Mandrake
 recognized it as an unknown audio device.

It is supported by ALSA using the snd-usb-audio module. It should show 
up with 'cat /proc/asound/cards'. If it doesn't try Harddrake.

 Has any one gotten this soundcard to work under Mandrake? If so could
 you please tell me what you did to get it to work?


 Eric Jackson
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HTH,

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Re: [newbie] Sound in mdk 10.0

[Marco Verheul]

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 00:19, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
 On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 05:51, Marco Verheul wrote:
  Hi all,
  
  I just made the jump to 10.0 last weekend . All went very smoothly, but
  unfornunately I still have no sound. I was hoping that it would get it
  working with a fresh full install, but no.. (didn't work in 9.1 either).
  
  In Mandrake Control Center I see that 2 soundcards are detected:
  
  VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio]
Vendor: VIA Technologies
Alternative drivers: via82cxxx_audio
Bus: PCI
Bus identification: 1106:3058:1106:4511
Location on the bus: 0:7:5
Description: VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio]
Module: snd-via82xx
Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO
  
  CT5880
Vendor: Ensoniq
Alternative drivers: snd-ens1371
Bus: PCI
Bus identification: 1274:5880:1274:8001
Location on the bus: 0:b:0
Description: CT5880
Module: es1371
Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO
  
  I'm supposed to have a Sound blaster 4.1 digital (creative) installed. I
  hope somebody can give me some clues on how to get things started.
  
  Marco
 
 Is your sound built into the motherboard (as it does kinda show) or is
 your Soundblaster a peripheral? (a card stuck in a slot) - if you DO
 have a Soundblaster card stuck in a slot, you might want to go into your
 BIOS and disable the onboard sound...I've had 50/50 with onboard VIA
 sound drivers...
 
 stephen kuhn - proprietor

Stephen,

I do have a card stuck in a slot. I disabled the onboard sound. As a
result I got a sound icon in the panel which wasn't there before, so I
guess there is some sort of recognition (but still no sound).

I tried to configure the sound system in:

System - configuration - KDE - sound - sound system

On the first tab I accepted the defaults. On the second I selected
autodetect and checked Full duplex. When I hit the apply button I get
the error: 

Sound server informational message:
 Error while initializing the sound driver:
 device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)
 The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

I really could use any good ideas. Thanks!

Marco
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Re: [newbie] Sound in mdk 10.0

[Frans Ketelaars]

On Thursday 15 July 2004 18:09, Marco Verheul wrote:
 On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 00:19, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
  On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 05:51, Marco Verheul wrote:
   Hi all,
  
   I just made the jump to 10.0 last weekend . All went very
   smoothly, but unfornunately I still have no sound. I was hoping
   that it would get it working with a fresh full install, but no..
   (didn't work in 9.1 either).
  
   In Mandrake Control Center I see that 2 soundcards are detected:
  
   VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio]
 Vendor: VIA Technologies
 Alternative drivers: via82cxxx_audio
 Bus: PCI
 Bus identification: 1106:3058:1106:4511
 Location on the bus: 0:7:5
 Description: VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio]
 Module: snd-via82xx
 Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO
  
   CT5880
 Vendor: Ensoniq
 Alternative drivers: snd-ens1371
 Bus: PCI
 Bus identification: 1274:5880:1274:8001
 Location on the bus: 0:b:0
 Description: CT5880
 Module: es1371
 Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO
  
   I'm supposed to have a Sound blaster 4.1 digital (creative)
   installed. I hope somebody can give me some clues on how to get
   things started.
  
   Marco
 
  Is your sound built into the motherboard (as it does kinda show) or
  is your Soundblaster a peripheral? (a card stuck in a slot) - if
  you DO have a Soundblaster card stuck in a slot, you might want to
  go into your BIOS and disable the onboard sound...I've had 50/50
  with onboard VIA sound drivers...
 
  stephen kuhn - proprietor

 Stephen,

 I do have a card stuck in a slot. I disabled the onboard sound. As a
 result I got a sound icon in the panel which wasn't there before, so
 I guess there is some sort of recognition (but still no sound).

 I tried to configure the sound system in:

 System - configuration - KDE - sound - sound system

 On the first tab I accepted the defaults. On the second I selected
 autodetect and checked Full duplex. When I hit the apply button I
 get the error:

 Sound server informational message:
  Error while initializing the sound driver:
  device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)
  The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

 I really could use any good ideas. Thanks!

 Marco

I don't think a sounddriver is loaded. You can check with '/sbin/lsmod'. 
If no driver is loaded you should try to configure your card in MCC, I 
would first try the snd-ens1371 module.

HTH,

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Re: [newbie] Sound in mdk 10.0

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 05:51, Marco Verheul wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I just made the jump to 10.0 last weekend . All went very smoothly, but
 unfornunately I still have no sound. I was hoping that it would get it
 working with a fresh full install, but no.. (didn't work in 9.1 either).
 
 In Mandrake Control Center I see that 2 soundcards are detected:
 
 VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio]
   Vendor: VIA Technologies
   Alternative drivers: via82cxxx_audio
   Bus: PCI
   Bus identification: 1106:3058:1106:4511
   Location on the bus: 0:7:5
   Description: VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio]
   Module: snd-via82xx
   Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO
 
 CT5880
   Vendor: Ensoniq
   Alternative drivers: snd-ens1371
   Bus: PCI
   Bus identification: 1274:5880:1274:8001
   Location on the bus: 0:b:0
   Description: CT5880
   Module: es1371
   Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO
 
 I'm supposed to have a Sound blaster 4.1 digital (creative) installed. I
 hope somebody can give me some clues on how to get things started.
 
 Marco

Is your sound built into the motherboard (as it does kinda show) or is
your Soundblaster a peripheral? (a card stuck in a slot) - if you DO
have a Soundblaster card stuck in a slot, you might want to go into your
BIOS and disable the onboard sound...I've had 50/50 with onboard VIA
sound drivers...

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Re: [newbie] Sound quit.

[Frans Ketelaars]

On Friday 25 June 2004 15:50, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
 This morning the sound wouldnt start.  XMMS seems to be playing the
 time is running and the display under the time, although jerkey, is
 working. The following message shows up whenever I attempt to
 configure the sound server and on startup.

 Sound server informational message:
 Error while initializing the sound driver:
 device: default can't be opened for playback (Permission denied)
 The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

 Help it was working yesterday?

Looks a permission problem, maybe check the permissions of 
/dev/sound/dsp.

HTH,

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Re: [newbie] Sound quit.

[Hoyt Bailey]

On Friday 25 June 2004 09:30, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
 On Friday 25 June 2004 15:50, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
  This morning the sound wouldnt start.  XMMS seems to be playing the
  time is running and the display under the time, although jerkey, is
  working. The following message shows up whenever I attempt to
  configure the sound server and on startup.
 
  Sound server informational message:
  Error while initializing the sound driver:
  device: default can't be opened for playback (Permission denied)
  The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
 
  Help it was working yesterday?
 
 Looks a permission problem, maybe check the permissions of 
 /dev/sound/dsp.
 
 HTH,
 
The only thing that happened was that I shut down at about 8PM and 
restarted this morning.  And it was fine when I shutdown.

crw---  1 root audio 14, 3 Dec 31  1969 /dev/sound/dsp
and I am a member of group audio

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Re: [newbie] Sound quit.

[Frans Ketelaars]

On Friday 25 June 2004 17:10, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
 On Friday 25 June 2004 09:30, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
  On Friday 25 June 2004 15:50, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
   This morning the sound wouldnt start.  XMMS seems to be playing
   the time is running and the display under the time, although
   jerkey, is working. The following message shows up whenever I
   attempt to configure the sound server and on startup.
  
   Sound server informational message:
   Error while initializing the sound driver:
   device: default can't be opened for playback (Permission denied)
   The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
  
   Help it was working yesterday?
 
  Looks a permission problem, maybe check the permissions of
  /dev/sound/dsp.
 
  HTH,

 The only thing that happened was that I shut down at about 8PM and
 restarted this morning.  And it was fine when I shutdown.

 crw---  1 root audio 14, 3 Dec 31  1969 /dev/sound/dsp
 and I am a member of group audio

But access is only for owner, not group...

Good luck!

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Re: [newbie] Sound quit.

[Hoyt Bailey]

On Friday 25 June 2004 11:05, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
 On Friday 25 June 2004 17:10, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
  On Friday 25 June 2004 09:30, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
   On Friday 25 June 2004 15:50, Hoyt Bailey wrote:

   Looks a permission problem, maybe check the permissions of
   /dev/sound/dsp.
  
   HTH,
 
  The only thing that happened was that I shut down at about 8PM and
  restarted this morning.  And it was fine when I shutdown.
 
  crw---  1 root audio 14, 3 Dec 31  1969 /dev/sound/dsp
  and I am a member of group audio
 
 But access is only for owner, not group...
 
 Good luck!
 
 -Frans
Thanks that did it.  However I cant explain the following.  I did not 
change the owner.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ ls -la /dev/sound/dsp
crw---  1 hoyt audio 14, 3 Dec 31  1969 /dev/sound/dsp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ su
Password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# chmod 750 /dev/sound/dsp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# ls -la /dev/sound/dsp
crwxr-x---  1 hoyt audio 14, 3 Dec 31  1969 /dev/sound/dsp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]#

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Re: [newbie] Sound issue

[Paul Smith]

Margot wrote:
Should one expect that the reported problems with sound of Mdk 10 will 
be repaired in further versions? Or is it something structural, not 
susceptible of being changed?
Depends on the type of problem, and where you have reported it. If it is 
a genuine *bug* in the system, and it has been reported to Anthill 
(http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/login.php) then it should (eventually!) 
be fixed. If a bug has only been reported on the mailing lists, it is 
unlikely that it will be fixed - I don't think any Mandrakesoft staff 
monitor the list, so they won't know the problem exists.

On the other hand, if the problem is with the user not fully 
understanding how the system works, the list is the best place to go for 
help - the staff can only fix the software, not the users!
Margot,
Thanks for your reply. I have just installed Mdk 10 and, regarding the 
sound, there is only a minor problem, which I shall describe in what 
follows.

My e-mail program is Thunderbird and, with Mdk 10, the system bell does 
not ring when a new message arrives. I have already checked Thunderbird 
configuration and everything seems OK.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
Paul


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Re: [newbie] Sound issue

[Paul Smith]

My e-mail program is Thunderbird and, with Mdk 10, the system bell does 
not ring when a new message arrives. I have already checked Thunderbird 
configuration and everything seems OK.
I have meanwhile found the solution to my own problem:
modprobe pcspkr
solves the problem.
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Re: [newbie] Sound issue

[Hoyt Bailey]

On Tuesday 15 June 2004 17:09, Paul Smith wrote:
 Dear All
 
 I am a quite happy user of mdk 9.2. I am planning to move to mdk 10 
 Official. However, sometime ago, I installed mdk 10 CE and I 
experienced 
   problems with sound. Therefore, I would like to know whether the 
sound 
 problems, typical of mdk 10 CE, are overcome.
 
 Thanks in advance!
 
 Paul
 
 
 
I have a new install of 10.0 official w/updates .  My sound is iffy.  
xmms dosent work niether does totem but real player works fine and some 
sound from events but then I always have sound problems, guess its 
because I dont understand the system very well.
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Re: [newbie] Sound issue

[Paul Smith]

I have a new install of 10.0 official w/updates .  My sound is iffy.  
xmms dosent work niether does totem but real player works fine and some 
sound from events but then I always have sound problems, guess its 
because I dont understand the system very well.
Should one expect that the reported problems with sound of Mdk 10 will 
be repaired in further versions? Or is it something structural, not 
susceptible of being changed?

Paul


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Re: [newbie] Sound issue

[Margot]

Paul Smith wrote:
I have a new install of 10.0 official w/updates .  My sound is iffy.  
xmms dosent work niether does totem but real player works fine and 
some sound from events but then I always have sound problems, guess 
its because I dont understand the system very well.

Should one expect that the reported problems with sound of Mdk 10 will 
be repaired in further versions? Or is it something structural, not 
susceptible of being changed?

Paul
Depends on the type of problem, and where you have reported it. If 
it is a genuine *bug* in the system, and it has been reported to 
Anthill (http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/login.php) then it should 
(eventually!) be fixed. If a bug has only been reported on the 
mailing lists, it is unlikely that it will be fixed - I don't think 
any Mandrakesoft staff monitor the list, so they won't know the 
problem exists.

On the other hand, if the problem is with the user not fully 
understanding how the system works, the list is the best place to go 
for help - the staff can only fix the software, not the users!

Margot


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Re: [newbie] Sound issue

[Hoyt Bailey]

On Wednesday 16 June 2004 05:12, Paul Smith wrote:
  I have a new install of 10.0 official w/updates .  My sound is iffy.  
  xmms dosent work niether does totem but real player works fine and 
some 
  sound from events but then I always have sound problems, guess its 
  because I dont understand the system very well.
 
 Should one expect that the reported problems with sound of Mdk 10 will 
 be repaired in further versions? Or is it something structural, not 
 susceptible of being changed?
 
 Paul
 
 
 
I wish I knew but I have a lot of hope.
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Re: [newbie] Sound

[Frans Ketelaars]

On Tuesday 15 June 2004 07:20, Teilhard Knight wrote:
  On Saturday 12 June 2004 13:43, Teilhard Knight wrote:
  big snip
 
   With 10.0 I have no sound and I
   haven't been able to make it work.
 
  another snip
 
  I think analog stereo sound from your card is just working. Could
  you try that (the simplest walkman headphones would do) ?
 
  This link may help with digital output:
  http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DigitalOut
 
  Good luck,
 
  -Frans

 Thanks for the link. However, to test which audio devices I have, it
 instructs to use the command:

 cat /proc/asound/devices.

 I get:

 cat: /proc/asound/devices, no such file or directory. I have the
 directory proc, but not asound.

 Now, when installing Mandrake 10.0, there were some packages that
 couldn't be installed. About 10. Maybe my sound problems come from
 there, huh?

 Cordially,

 Teilhard.

It seems the ALSA driver isn't loaded. What is the output of 
'/sbin/lsmod'?

HTH,

-Frans



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Re: [newbie] Sound

[Hoyt Bailey]

On Tuesday 15 June 2004 10:04, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
 On Tuesday 15 June 2004 07:20, Teilhard Knight wrote:
   On Saturday 12 June 2004 13:43, Teilhard Knight wrote:
   big snip
  
With 10.0 I have no sound and I
haven't been able to make it work.
  
   another snip
  
   I think analog stereo sound from your card is just working. Could
   you try that (the simplest walkman headphones would do) ?
  
   This link may help with digital output:
   http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DigitalOut
  
   Good luck,
  
   -Frans
 
  Thanks for the link. However, to test which audio devices I have, it
  instructs to use the command:
 
  cat /proc/asound/devices.
 
  I get:
 
  cat: /proc/asound/devices, no such file or directory. I have the
  directory proc, but not asound.

See attached not guaranteed but this is my file.


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Regards;
Hoyt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /proc/asound/devices
  0: [0- 0]: ctl
 17: [0- 1]: digital audio playback
 25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture
 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback
 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture
  1:   : sequencer
 33:   : timer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$


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Re: [newbie] Sound issue

[Erylon Hines]

On Tuesday 15 June 2004 03:09 pm, Paul Smith wrote:
| Dear All
|
| I am a quite happy user of mdk 9.2. I am planning to move to mdk 10
| Official. However, sometime ago, I installed mdk 10 CE and I experienced
|   problems with sound. Therefore, I would like to know whether the sound
| problems, typical of mdk 10 CE, are overcome.
|
| Thanks in advance!
|
| Paul

Judging by the posts of the past month, the answer is NO.  Depending on what 
you have for hardware, sound may be problematic.  
I'm staying with 9.2 (and 9.1) until I can install with more confidence than I 
have now.

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Re: [newbie] sound mixer for kde ISA card

[David E. Fox]

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 15:29:12 -0400
Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I'm trying to set up an old puter with MDK 10 Official (d/l) and in
 KDE I want to add the sound mixer. Since this is an older machine it's

kmix may work. I went through this recently for a friend who had one of
those Mozart sound system cards. We were able to get the sound card
configuration working fine using sndconfig (after selecting some Compaq
configuration, for some reason) and I think we tried kmix.

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Re: [newbie] Sound

[Teilhard Knight]

 On Thursday 10 June 2004 08:18 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote:
 |  Teilhard Knight wrote:
 |  snip
 | 
 |
 |
 | Indeed. Although most of the things you say are new to me, I can appreciate
 | command-line Linux is a much more powerful OS than DOS ever was. To be
 | honest, I feel impatient for seeing the end of the Micro$soft empire and
 | its blue-screen world. Maybe that's why I would like to see in Linux only
 | improvements over $ill Gates toys and a friendly environment. However, the
 | more I learn about Linux, the less I picture it like an OS for a secretary,
 | for example. I agree with someone who said that $ill Gates has a stronghold
 | in his Control Panel. But that doesn't mean I cannot appreciate the
 | advantages of Linux over Windows, and the speed it is evolving.
 |
 | Cordially,
 |
 | Teilhard
 |
 | -

 Once you get it setup (and quite often--depending on hardware--it is setup
 right on install) anyone can use it, and use it well.  My wife's computer was
 converted to Linux a couple of years ago and she has no trouble with it
 whatsover, across a couple of upgrades from 8.2 to 9.1, which she is using
 now.  As she told a friend a few months ago, Linux is easy to use--it must
 be if I can do it.
 As for myself, I was a network administrator back in the NT 4 days--what Linux
 has now is far simpler than NT was then.  I can't say about W2K or XP
 administration, but I think just keeping up with the updates for security
 vulnerabilities appears to be far more trouble than I want to go to.
 Contrary to appearances, the famous Windows ease-of-use is really a facade
 because the administration of the system is a nightmare.  I learned back in
 my day that I couldn't just install a security fix because there was a
 chance, a very good chance, that the fix would break some essential
 application.  From what I see on the newsgroups, it doesn't appear that this
 Windows feature has changed much over the years.

I have always had problems with networks in windows. I am far from being a
network administrator, but I have had some such at home from my ISPs who rarely
fix something for me in that area. I am using Mandrake 10,0 in one of my
machines, but in others I have installed previous versions. The first time I
installed the distro, I got delighted everything was working. With 10.0 I have
no sound and I haven't been able to make it work. It is here where I find
Windows more friendly to what one can do to fix the problem. But, as you say,
past the configuration, Linux is a very friendly OS. Maybe I feel a bit lost
because I am a newbie. For example, it is essential to me the support of this
list and I do not belong to any Microsoft mailing lists.

All in all much have been said about Linux Vs Windows, and I have read all sort
of things, including people who try Linux and reject it like the pest going
back to their Windows.

Cordially.

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Re: [newbie] Sound

[Erylon Hines]

On Saturday 12 June 2004 04:43 am, Teilhard Knight wrote:
|  On Thursday 10 June 2004 08:18 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote:

|
| I have always had problems with networks in windows. I am far from being a
| network administrator, but I have had some such at home from my ISPs who
| rarely fix something for me in that area. I am using Mandrake 10,0 in one
| of my machines, but in others I have installed previous versions. The first
| time I installed the distro, I got delighted everything was working. With
| 10.0 I have no sound and I haven't been able to make it work. It is here
| where I find Windows more friendly to what one can do to fix the problem.
| But, as you say, past the configuration, Linux is a very friendly OS. Maybe
| I feel a bit lost because I am a newbie. For example, it is essential to me
| the support of this list and I do not belong to any Microsoft mailing
| lists.
|
I'm actually with you on this.  Although Mandrake tools are the best (I've 
used Redhat, SuSe, Deb, and even Caldera, way back when), Mandrake is really 
a cutting edge distro.  The upside is it has the latest developments, the 
downside is that some things don't work on all hardware.  This has been 
ongoing with Mandrake from the 7.x series.  I won't install any new version 
until at least several months after release because of these problems, and 
from what I read, I won't be installing mdk 10.0.  It seems to work on most 
people's hardware, but a small percentage have serious problems with their 
sound.  Now, this may be fixable (something simple like changing from your 
card's arts driver to the alternative OSS driver, for example), or it may be 
a systemic problem with the distro.  If past releases are any indication, 
most of these problems will be worked out by the 10.1 version, and the 10.2 
version will be excellent.
But, for now, 9.2 and 9.1 work exactly the way that I want them to, and I 
can't see a single reason to upgrade.  



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Re: [newbie] Sound

[Frans Ketelaars]

On Saturday 12 June 2004 13:43, Teilhard Knight wrote:
big snip
 With 10.0 I have no sound and I
 haven't been able to make it work.
another snip

I think analog stereo sound from your card is just working. Could you 
try that (the simplest walkman headphones would do) ? 

This link may help with digital output: 
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DigitalOut

Good luck,

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Re: [newbie] Sound

[Erylon Hines]

On Thursday 10 June 2004 08:18 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote:
|  Teilhard Knight wrote:
|  snip
| 
|
|
| Indeed. Although most of the things you say are new to me, I can appreciate
| command-line Linux is a much more powerful OS than DOS ever was. To be
| honest, I feel impatient for seeing the end of the Micro$soft empire and
| its blue-screen world. Maybe that's why I would like to see in Linux only
| improvements over $ill Gates toys and a friendly environment. However, the
| more I learn about Linux, the less I picture it like an OS for a secretary,
| for example. I agree with someone who said that $ill Gates has a stronghold
| in his Control Panel. But that doesn't mean I cannot appreciate the
| advantages of Linux over Windows, and the speed it is evolving.
|
| Cordially,
|
| Teilhard
|
| -

Once you get it setup (and quite often--depending on hardware--it is setup 
right on install) anyone can use it, and use it well.  My wife's computer was 
converted to Linux a couple of years ago and she has no trouble with it 
whatsover, across a couple of upgrades from 8.2 to 9.1, which she is using 
now.  As she told a friend a few months ago, Linux is easy to use--it must 
be if I can do it.
As for myself, I was a network administrator back in the NT 4 days--what Linux 
has now is far simpler than NT was then.  I can't say about W2K or XP 
administration, but I think just keeping up with the updates for security 
vulnerabilities appears to be far more trouble than I want to go to.  
Contrary to appearances, the famous Windows ease-of-use is really a facade 
because the administration of the system is a nightmare.  I learned back in 
my day that I couldn't just install a security fix because there was a 
chance, a very good chance, that the fix would break some essential 
application.  From what I see on the newsgroups, it doesn't appear that this 
Windows feature has changed much over the years.

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Re: [newbie] Sound

[aron]

On Thursday 10 June 2004 11:45 pm, Erylon Hines wrote:
 On Thursday 10 June 2004 08:18 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote:
 |  Teilhard Knight wrote:
 |  snip
 |
 | Indeed. Although most of the things you say are new to me, I can
 | appreciate command-line Linux is a much more powerful OS than DOS ever
 | was. To be honest, I feel impatient for seeing the end of the Micro$soft
 | empire and its blue-screen world. Maybe that's why I would like to see in
 | Linux only improvements over $ill Gates toys and a friendly environment.
 | However, the more I learn about Linux, the less I picture it like an OS
 | for a secretary, for example. I agree with someone who said that $ill
 | Gates has a stronghold in his Control Panel. But that doesn't mean I
 | cannot appreciate the advantages of Linux over Windows, and the speed it
 | is evolving.
 |
 | Cordially,
 |
 | Teilhard
 |
 | -

 Once you get it setup (and quite often--depending on hardware--it is setup
 right on install) anyone can use it, and use it well.  My wife's computer
 was converted to Linux a couple of years ago and she has no trouble with it
 whatsover, across a couple of upgrades from 8.2 to 9.1, which she is using
 now.  As she told a friend a few months ago, Linux is easy to use--it must
 be if I can do it.
 As for myself, I was a network administrator back in the NT 4 days--what
 Linux has now is far simpler than NT was then.  I can't say about W2K or XP
 administration, but I think just keeping up with the updates for security
 vulnerabilities appears to be far more trouble than I want to go to.
 Contrary to appearances, the famous Windows ease-of-use is really a facade
 because the administration of the system is a nightmare.  I learned back in
 my day that I couldn't just install a security fix because there was a
 chance, a very good chance, that the fix would break some essential
 application.  From what I see on the newsgroups, it doesn't appear that
 this Windows feature has changed much over the years.

Think of two cars one is a old junker with a lot of chrome and the hood welded 
shut thats Windows the other car is a lite weight tank that is easy to modify 
gets a hundred miles to the gallon and hardly ever breaks down (to paraphrase 
Neil Stephenson ) 
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Re: [newbie] Sound

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Teilhard Knight wrote:
snip
Thanks a lot. I think I know now how the Linux world works. It is such a
surprise for me to realise I have to know by memory about hundreds of programs
in order to make them work. For someone from the Windows world it is kind of
disappointing. But perhaps there are ways I do not know about to check which
installed programs there are, huh?
Cordially,
Teilhard
For most of the GUI tools, you can pick them from the menus.  (Not all 
programs are in the menu's yet, but it is getting better.)

For command line tools, it is sort of like dropping to the DOS prompt, 
except that you have tools to help you that you don't have in DOS. 
Things like typing part of a command, directory name, or file name, 
hitting Tab, and haveing the system complete it, or offer you options on 
completing it.  You can also scroll through the command you have entered 
using the up and down arrows.  You can edit the commands you bring up 
this way, and run them again.  (A great help when you type like I do!)

With most commands, you can get help by putting --help or -h after 
the command.  You can also type man command name to get help with 
the commands.  There is indeed a lot to learn if you want to take full 
advantage of the power of Linux, but you usualy don't need the command 
line tools to get things done.  (I like them, and sometimes have to 
check on what the GUI tool is...)

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Re: [newbie] Sound

[RickS]

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Teilhard Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[...}
| But perhaps there are
|ways I do not know about to check which|installed programs there
|are, huh?|
|Cordially,
|
|Teilhard
[...]

Hi Teilhard, 
I started using linux over 9 months ago and someone suggested
this.. Greg Meyer maybe ? IIRC  any way ..

you can go to Mandrake Control Center [mcc] -- then to
Software management -- Remove  
and .. with no intention of removing any packages 8)
.. just click on any of the installed programs for their information
.. make suremaximum information is checked, so you can take a look
at the list offiles that are installed from a package.

:: or the longer way ::
in a terminal you can type:

$ rpm -qa | sort  ~/rpmlist-`date +%d%m%y_%I%M`.txt

will create a file like this with the current date at the current
time:

rpmlist-100604_0904.txt

which is a sorted list of all rpm packages installed that you can
read in any text editor 8) and save for later.

and for any package name you can get the information of by typing:

$ rpm -qi packagename

or 

for the list of files a package will install:

$ rpm -ql packagename 

also ..
$ man rpm  in a terminal 
or in konqueror 
type man:rpm for more info 

check out www.urpmi.org for info on urpmi

HTH
RickS 
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Re: [newbie] Sound

[Teilhard Knight]

 On Tue,  8 Jun 2004 00:26:00 -0400
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
  Done, I downloaded and installed drakxtools-newt. My problem now is:
  where are the tools the package gives? I know there are thousands of

 Well, in this case, it should have deposited 'draksound' and some other
 files on your system. su to root, type 'draksound ' in a console, and
 you should then be able to set your card up.


Thanks. I haven't been able to change driver. For some reason that perhaps will
be obvious to you, alsa has to get shut down and the program fails to do it. I
get this when trying to change driver:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] gcovar]# Doing alsactl to store mixer settings... [  OK  ]
Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 1.0.2c): no. (sound is being used by
pid 3647 ))   [FAILED]
ERROR: Module snd-emu10k1 is in use by snd-emu10k1-synth
Loading mixer settings  [  OK  ]

Your feedback will be appreciated.

Cordially

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Re: [newbie] Sound

[Teilhard Knight]

 Teilhard Knight wrote:
 snip

 
  Thanks a lot. I think I know now how the Linux world works. It is such a
  surprise for me to realise I have to know by memory about hundreds of
programs
  in order to make them work. For someone from the Windows world it is kind of
  disappointing. But perhaps there are ways I do not know about to check which
  installed programs there are, huh?
 
  Cordially,
 
  Teilhard
 
 For most of the GUI tools, you can pick them from the menus.  (Not all
 programs are in the menu's yet, but it is getting better.)

 For command line tools, it is sort of like dropping to the DOS prompt,
 except that you have tools to help you that you don't have in DOS.
 Things like typing part of a command, directory name, or file name,
 hitting Tab, and haveing the system complete it, or offer you options on
 completing it.  You can also scroll through the command you have entered
 using the up and down arrows.  You can edit the commands you bring up
 this way, and run them again.  (A great help when you type like I do!)

 With most commands, you can get help by putting --help or -h after
 the command.  You can also type man command name to get help with
 the commands.  There is indeed a lot to learn if you want to take full
 advantage of the power of Linux, but you usualy don't need the command
 line tools to get things done.  (I like them, and sometimes have to
 check on what the GUI tool is...)

 Mikkel


Indeed. Although most of the things you say are new to me, I can appreciate
command-line Linux is a much more powerful OS than DOS ever was. To be honest,
I feel impatient for seeing the end of the Micro$soft empire and its
blue-screen world. Maybe that's why I would like to see in Linux only
improvements over $ill Gates toys and a friendly environment. However, the more
I learn about Linux, the less I picture it like an OS for a secretary, for
example. I agree with someone who said that $ill Gates has a stronghold in his
Control Panel. But that doesn't mean I cannot appreciate the advantages of
Linux over Windows, and the speed it is evolving.

Cordially,

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Re: [newbie] Sound

[Teilhard Knight]

 On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:33:38 -0400
 Teilhard Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 [...}
 | But perhaps there are
 |ways I do not know about to check which|installed programs there
 |are, huh?|
 |Cordially,
 |
 |Teilhard
 [...]

 Hi Teilhard,
 I started using linux over 9 months ago and someone suggested
 this.. Greg Meyer maybe ? IIRC  any way ..

 you can go to Mandrake Control Center [mcc] -- then to
 Software management -- Remove 
 and .. with no intention of removing any packages 8)
 .. just click on any of the installed programs for their information
 .. make suremaximum information is checked, so you can take a look
 at the list offiles that are installed from a package.

 :: or the longer way ::
 in a terminal you can type:

 $ rpm -qa | sort  ~/rpmlist-`date +%d%m%y_%I%M`.txt

 will create a file like this with the current date at the current
 time:

 rpmlist-100604_0904.txt

 which is a sorted list of all rpm packages installed that you can
 read in any text editor 8) and save for later.

 and for any package name you can get the information of by typing:

 $ rpm -qi packagename

 or

 for the list of files a package will install:

 $ rpm -ql packagename

 also ..
 $ man rpm  in a terminal
 or in konqueror
 type man:rpm for more info

 check out www.urpmi.org for info on urpmi

 HTH
 RickS

What you tell me is great. I started thinking in Linux as a black box. I hope in
9 months from now, I'll be able to get familiar with the OS like you. I do not
have much time to spend learning it, so, I wouldn't be so sure. Thanks so much
for your feedback.

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Re: [newbie] Sound

[David E. Fox]

On Tue,  8 Jun 2004 00:26:00 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 Done, I downloaded and installed drakxtools-newt. My problem now is:
 where are the tools the package gives? I know there are thousands of

Well, in this case, it should have deposited 'draksound' and some other
files on your system. su to root, type 'draksound ' in a console, and
you should then be able to set your card up.

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Re: [newbie] Sound

[Teilhard Knight]

On Sunday 06 June 2004 00:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Saturday 05 June 2004 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

snip

   Thanks a lot. Actually I played a bit with that. However, I got a
   Home Theatre, and one of the lights of the amplifier blinks
   whenever the sound card is not active. In that way I know that it
   is not just a matter of not enough volume and such. Thanks for
   the feedback.
 
  Is your amplifier connected to the soundcard with a digital S/PDIF
  cable (optical or coaxial)?
 
  HTH,
 
  -Frans

 I do not really know, but I would say it's coaxial, otherwise I would
 have Cambridge (the make of the Home Theatre) boasting of optical
 connections in the manual, etc.

 Teilhard.

You said earlier: My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live!
Platinum 5.1. Here is a link:
http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?prodid=572 . It says:
-
 Take advantage of the digital connection to Cambridge SoundWorks
DeskTop Theater™ 5.1 DTT3500 Digital speakers and the analog connection
to Dolby Digital-ready home theater systems 
-
You should be able to see whether your cards digital or analog output is
used by consulting the cards manual and checking to which connector the
cable to the amplifier is connected. I think you use the digital output
and the blinking light on the amplifier means it's not getting a
(recognised) signal. In alsamixer digital input and output is labeled
IEC958.

HTH,

-Frans

Thanks. I know I am using digital output, so, maybe I just need to set IEC958 in
alsamixer in order to make the system work. However, I have searched everywhere
for alsamixer, and I do not find it. Just today I installed drakxtools-newt,
and I do not see how to unearth the applications it gives. If you would be so
kind enough so as to reply, please tell me how can I have access to the
different programs and applications in KDE besides the ones in the main menu.

Cordially,

Teilhard.
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Re: [newbie] Sound

[teilhk]

 On Sat,  5 Jun 2004 18:50:31 -0400
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Thanks a lot. Little problem is, I haven't got the slightest idea
  where to find draksound. Also, I do not compute mcc. However I will
  keep searching. I didn't

 draksound is part of drakxtools-newt rpm.

 mcc is part of drakconf. urpmf 'program' is very nice, it will tell you
 what rpm has the file, and you don't necessarily even have to have the
 file present on the drive.

  find anything for sound in the Mandrake Control Centre.

 You'd think it would be there, but it's configured separately through
 draksound.


Done, I downloaded and installed drakxtools-newt. My problem now is: where are
the tools the package gives? I know there are thousands of applications in
Mandrake, but I do not know how to access them. I'd appreciate if you would
help me in this regard.

Cordially

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Re: [newbie] Sound

[Frans Ketelaars]

On Sunday 06 June 2004 00:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Saturday 05 June 2004 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

snip

   Thanks a lot. Actually I played a bit with that. However, I got a
   Home Theatre, and one of the lights of the amplifier blinks
   whenever the sound card is not active. In that way I know that it
   is not just a matter of not enough volume and such. Thanks for
   the feedback.
 
  Is your amplifier connected to the soundcard with a digital S/PDIF
  cable (optical or coaxial)?
 
  HTH,
 
  -Frans

 I do not really know, but I would say it's coaxial, otherwise I would
 have Cambridge (the make of the Home Theatre) boasting of optical
 connections in the manual, etc.

 Teilhard.

You said earlier: My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 
Platinum 5.1. Here is a link: 
http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?prodid=572 . It says:
-
 Take advantage of the digital connection to Cambridge SoundWorks 
DeskTop Theater 5.1 DTT3500 Digital speakers and the analog connection 
to Dolby Digital-ready home theater systems 
-
You should be able to see whether your cards digital or analog output is 
used by consulting the cards manual and checking to which connector the 
cable to the amplifier is connected. I think you use the digital output 
and the blinking light on the amplifier means it's not getting a 
(recognised) signal. In alsamixer digital input and output is labeled 
IEC958.  

HTH,

-Frans



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Re: [newbie] Sound

[Dan Gordon]

On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello:

 I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different
 versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer,
 version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just
 on first boot, but not this time.

 I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this problem. My
 sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1.

 Your help will be appreciated.

 Teilhard
The first thing i would check is all the various volume control apps you have,  
I have found the same problem myself and just checking the different mixers 
and volume contol apps fixed the problem.

Regards,
Dan Gordon
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Re: [newbie] Sound

[Marek Pawinski]

Dan Gordon wrote:
On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello:
I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different
versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer,
version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just
on first boot, but not this time.
I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this problem. My
sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1.
Your help will be appreciated.
Teilhard
The first thing i would check is all the various volume control apps you have,  
I have found the same problem myself and just checking the different mixers 
and volume contol apps fixed the problem.

Regards,
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[teilhk]

 On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Hello:
 
  I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different
  versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer,
  version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound
just
  on first boot, but not this time.
 
  I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this problem. My
  sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1.
 
  Your help will be appreciated.
 
  Teilhard
 The first thing i would check is all the various volume control apps you
have,
 I have found the same problem myself and just checking the different
mixers
 and volume contol apps fixed the problem.

 Regards,
 Dan Gordon

Thanks a lot. Actually I played a bit with that. However, I got a Home
Theatre, and one of the lights of the amplifier blinks whenever the sound
card is not active. In that way I know that it is not just a matter of not
enough volume and such. Thanks for the feedback.

Teilhard

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Re: [newbie] Sound

[teilhk]

 Dan Gordon wrote:
  On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Hello:
 
 I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different
 versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer,
 version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just
 on first boot, but not this time.
 
 I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this problem. My
 sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1.
 
 Your help will be appreciated.
 
 Teilhard
 
  The first thing i would check is all the various volume control apps you
have,
  I have found the same problem myself and just checking the different mixers
  and volume contol apps fixed the problem.
 
  Regards,
  Dan Gordon
 
 
  
 
  
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 Also check under services that alsa is running and under harddrake that
 you have choosen the right driver.

 --
 Marek

Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is: snd-emu10k1.
It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How can I check what's the
right driver for me? Thanks for the feedback.

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Re: [newbie] Sound

[Marek Pawinski]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is: snd-emu10k1.
It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How can I check what's the
right driver for me? Thanks for the feedback.
Teilhard.

They should actually both work try the alternate one.
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Re: [newbie] Re: [Newbie] Sound

[Frans Ketelaars]

On Saturday 05 June 2004 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   Hello:
  
   I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed
   different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the
   largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous
   experience, I always got sound

 just

   on first boot, but not this time.
  
   I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this
   problem. My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum
   5.1.
  
   Your help will be appreciated.
  
   Teilhard
 
  The first thing i would check is all the various volume control
  apps you

 have,

  I have found the same problem myself and just checking the
  different

 mixers

  and volume contol apps fixed the problem.
 
  Regards,
  Dan Gordon

 Thanks a lot. Actually I played a bit with that. However, I got a
 Home Theatre, and one of the lights of the amplifier blinks whenever
 the sound card is not active. In that way I know that it is not just
 a matter of not enough volume and such. Thanks for the feedback.

Is your amplifier connected to the soundcard with a digital S/PDIF cable 
(optical or coaxial)?

HTH,

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Re: [newbie] Sound

[David E. Fox]

On Sat,  5 Jun 2004 13:14:15 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is:
 snd-emu10k1. It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How

I would think that emu10k1 is the proper one. In my experience, 90% of
the time, it picked up audigy instead, which resulted in no sound.
This means an adjusment (or several) in mcc and/or draksound to get it
to use the right driver. Secondly, if you use kmix as I do, and have
10.0 Community, be aware that the volume slider isn't where you'd expect
it to be. This threw me at first. You may need to bump up the 3D
slider raher the master or pcm sliders.

Also, I've had better luck having sound work (on boot!) with Thomas
Backlund's kernels, available at http://www.iki.fi or installable via
your contrib sources.

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Re: [newbie] Sound

[teilhk]

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
  Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is:
snd-emu10k1.
  It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How can I check
what's the
  right driver for me? Thanks for the feedback.
 
  Teilhard.



 They should actually both work try the alternate one.

 --
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Thanks, I will.

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Re: [newbie] Sound

[teilhk]

 On Sat,  5 Jun 2004 13:14:15 -0400
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
  Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is:
  snd-emu10k1. It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How

 I would think that emu10k1 is the proper one. In my experience, 90% of
 the time, it picked up audigy instead, which resulted in no sound.
 This means an adjusment (or several) in mcc and/or draksound to get it
 to use the right driver. Secondly, if you use kmix as I do, and have
 10.0 Community, be aware that the volume slider isn't where you'd expect
 it to be. This threw me at first. You may need to bump up the 3D
 slider raher the master or pcm sliders.

 Also, I've had better luck having sound work (on boot!) with Thomas
 Backlund's kernels, available at http://www.iki.fi or installable via
 your contrib sources.

Thanks a lot. Little problem is, I haven't got the slightest idea where to find
draksound. Also, I do not compute mcc. However I will keep searching. I didn't
find anything for sound in the Mandrake Control Centre.

Cordially

Teilhard.

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Re: [newbie] Sound

[teilhk]

 On Saturday 05 June 2004 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello:
   
I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed
different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the
largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous
experience, I always got sound
 
  just
 
on first boot, but not this time.
   
I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this
problem. My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum
5.1.
   
Your help will be appreciated.
   
Teilhard
  
   The first thing i would check is all the various volume control
   apps you
 
  have,
 
   I have found the same problem myself and just checking the
   different
 
  mixers
 
   and volume contol apps fixed the problem.
  
   Regards,
   Dan Gordon
 
  Thanks a lot. Actually I played a bit with that. However, I got a
  Home Theatre, and one of the lights of the amplifier blinks whenever
  the sound card is not active. In that way I know that it is not just
  a matter of not enough volume and such. Thanks for the feedback.

 Is your amplifier connected to the soundcard with a digital S/PDIF cable
 (optical or coaxial)?

 HTH,

 -Frans

I do not really know, but I would say it's coaxial, otherwise I would have
Cambridge (the make of the Home Theatre) boasting of optical connections in the
manual, etc.

Teilhard.

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Re: [newbie] Sound

[David E. Fox]

On Sat,  5 Jun 2004 18:50:31 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Thanks a lot. Little problem is, I haven't got the slightest idea
 where to find draksound. Also, I do not compute mcc. However I will
 keep searching. I didn't

draksound is part of drakxtools-newt rpm.

mcc is part of drakconf. urpmf 'program' is very nice, it will tell you
what rpm has the file, and you don't necessarily even have to have the
file present on the drive. 

 find anything for sound in the Mandrake Control Centre.

You'd think it would be there, but it's configured separately through
draksound.



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Re: [newbie] sound volume

[Dennis Myers]

On Saturday 15 May 2004 08:58 am, John wrote:
 Hello
 Have installed sound blaster 16pci sound card. Hardrake offered 2
 drivers-oss and alsa. Installed the alsa driver.  I have the alsa
 mixer gui. The sound volume at maximum setting is still low. Any ideas
 on how to increase volume wuld be appreciated.
 Thanks
 John
You may have to play a bit, try increasing the igain and ogain, also pcm 
sometimes is a difference so move it up or down. Look to see if the red light 
is on the mic setting, if it is somewhere else click the mic light button and 
you may get sound. Oh turn your volume down a bit or you may get blasted when 
you find the right slider. : )
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Re: [newbie] SOUND with MD9.1 and the NVIDIA nForce2MCP2 southbridge chip

[Travis Crook]

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 10:58, John Richard Smith wrote:
 SOUND with MD9.1 and the NVIDIA nForce2MCP2 southbridge chip
 I ran, drakesound and chose the nvaudio sound driver,and,
 ali5455 (ALI 5455 audio support) is what it did.
{SNIP}
 Anyone with nvidia sound chipe and driver got any ideas how I might get 
 mine to work.
 
 John

Hi John,
I'm running Mandrake 10.0CE and had initial problems with my nforce
chipset (not the nforce2 chipset, don't know if there is a difference in
getting audio to work).  I set my driver to be nvaudio inside MCC and
then ran alsaconf from the command line.  It seems to be working across
the board for me now (xmms, unreal tournament, etc.).

Hope that helps!

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Re: [newbie] SOUND with MD9.1 and the NVIDIA nForce2MCP2 southbridge chip

[John Richard Smith]

Travis Crook wrote:

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 10:58, John Richard Smith wrote:

SOUND with MD9.1 and the NVIDIA nForce2MCP2 southbridge chip
I ran, drakesound and chose the nvaudio sound driver,and,
ali5455 (ALI 5455 audio support) is what it did.
{SNIP}

Anyone with nvidia sound chipe and driver got any ideas how I might get 
mine to work.

John

Hi John,
I'm running Mandrake 10.0CE and had initial problems with my nforce
chipset (not the nforce2 chipset, don't know if there is a difference in
getting audio to work).  I set my driver to be nvaudio inside MCC and
then ran alsaconf from the command line.  It seems to be working across
the board for me now (xmms, unreal tournament, etc.).
Hope that helps

It did and although I don't seem to have any alsaconf on my system,I do now have 
sound,with
this settings,
MCC - Hardware-Harddrake -nForce2 audio codec interface

Bus identification : 10de.6a:1462:5700
location:0:6:0
description  nFirce2 audio codec interface
module: i810_audio
module class: multimedia-audio
I had to unmute the  97-CD line in aumix

and my /etc/modules.conf looks like this,

alias sound-slot-0 nvidia
alias  /dev/nvidia*  nvidia
above snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss
Which is just fine.

Now to configure my USB stuff, but that another day, it's late now.

John

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Re: [newbie] Sound - OSS, Alsa, or ???

[Frans Ketelaars]

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 18:20, Travis Crook wrote:
 Hi All,
   I am trying to get sound to work on my box.  I am running 10.0CE
 (very nice by the way).  It has solved some issues that I had with
 9.2 but now I cannot get sound to play nice.

 I have an Abit NV7-133R motherboard with the nforce chipset.  It has
 the nforce audio processor built-in.  It's default driver should be
 i810_audio, which is what I have it set to.  I ran the
 troubleshooting commands given from MCC.  Here is the output.

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO
 unknown : Nvidia Corporation|nForce MCP Audio Processing Unit
 (Dolby Digital) [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:10de device:01b0 subv:10de
 subd:0c11)
 i810_audio  : Nvidia Corporation|nForce Audio Codec Interface
 [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:10de device:01b1 subv:147b subd:)

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] grep sound-slot /etc/modules.conf
 alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /sbin/lsmod
 {snip}
 i810_audio 31860  3
 ac97_codec 17804  1 i810_audio
 soundcore   9248  4 i810_audio
 {snip}

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /sbin/chkconfig --list sound
 sound   0:off   1:off   2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /sbin/chkconfig --list alsa
 alsa0:off   1:off   2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] aumix -q
 bash: aumix: command not found

 (How do I install this?  I've got alsa-utils on my system but I don't
 know what it's for!)

Alsa-utils contains alsamixer for the ALSA soundsystem, but you are 
using the OSS driver. You can, as root, install aumix with 'urpmi 
aumix' :) If applications 'appear' to play but there is no sound it's 
most likely to be a problem with mixer settings.

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp

  USERPID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/dsp quickbeam  16347 f  ut2004-bin

 (Yes, I like to play UT! But, I don't have sound anywhere - not in
 UT, xmms, kaffeine, etc.)

If you kill UT the OSS /dev/dsp device should be free for another sound 
application.

 Where do I go from here?  Any suggestions would be, as always, most
 appreciated!

HTH,
 
-Frans



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Re: [newbie] Sound - OSS, Alsa, or ???

[Erylon Hines]

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 09:20 am, Travis Crook wrote:
 Hi All,
   I am trying to get sound to work on my box.  I am running 10.0CE (very
 nice by the way).  It has solved some issues that I had with 9.2 but now
 I cannot get sound to play nice.

 I have an Abit NV7-133R motherboard with the nforce chipset.  It has the
 nforce audio processor built-in.  It's default driver should be
 i810_audio, which is what I have it set to.  I ran the troubleshooting
 commands given from MCC.  Here is the output.

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO
 unknown : Nvidia Corporation|nForce MCP Audio Processing Unit
 (Dolby Digital) [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:10de device:01b0 subv:10de
 subd:0c11)
 i810_audio  : Nvidia Corporation|nForce Audio Codec Interface
 [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:10de device:01b1 subv:147b subd:)

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] grep sound-slot /etc/modules.conf
 alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio



 Where do I go from here?  Any suggestions would be, as always, most
 appreciated!

hmmm.  If you've tried all the usual suspects (mute, etc), try an alternative 
driver.  I might suggest you try the nvaudio driver first.



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Re: [newbie] Sound - OSS, Alsa, or ???

[Travis Crook]

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 12:35, Erylon Hines wrote:
 On Tuesday 20 April 2004 09:20 am, Travis Crook wrote:
 
  Where do I go from here?  Any suggestions would be, as always, most
  appreciated!
 
 hmmm.  If you've tried all the usual suspects (mute, etc), try an alternative 
 driver.  I might suggest you try the nvaudio driver first.
 
 
I tried using the nvaudio driver and reran alsaconfig.  It seems to be
working now.  

Thanks for the help!!

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Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live

[Marco Terzuoli]

I've tried that but it doesn't work either... Point is I've got both SB and
a sound card integrated in my motherboard, which uses the via82xx module.
Whatever options I choose, it is the intedgrated card which plays sound,
whereas the SB remains shut up. Even selecting Sound Blaster from KMix
doesn't change a thing. I tried to edit /etc/modules.conf to exclude the via
drivers but they are loaded anyway Does anyone know how not to let them
be loaded at boot time?

- Original Message -
From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 2:51 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live


 On Friday 02 April 2004 09:54 am, Marco Terzuoli wrote:
  Hi,
  I have just installed Mandrake 10.0 Community and I have a problem
having
  my Sound Blaster Live working correctly. Actually the installer
recognizes
  it and (hopefully) installs the correct driver, but there is no way of
  hearing anything, except from interferences from the microphone and such
  things (which anyhow means that in some weird way the system
communicates
  with the sound card). I tried to fix things up using KMix and the sound
  configuration tool to switch from ALSA to OSS and stuff like that, but I
  could only manage to get rid of the interferences, which means I hear
  nothing at all Also, I would like to point out that I had some
problems
  running xmms... it actually starts, but usually crashes withins seconds
  (even though sometimes, with no apparent reason, it works well
meaning
  that I can see the freequency bars going up and down, of course I hear
  nothing). Looking through the net I found that it is due to some glib
  problem, but no solution to it was given, so if someone knows what to do
  please tell me. Thanks everybody,
  Marco
 
  PS
  I'm sorry if some of you got this message twice, but I received an error
  saying that it could not be delivered to all of the users in the list, s
o I
  sent it again
 Marco, try this, go into the Mandrake Control Center and choose hardware
and
 click on the sound card  you have showing on the left, then on the right
side
 click run configuration. There is usually three driver choices once it
gets
 to that point, if it shows yours using the snd-emu10k1 choose to use just
the
 emu10k1 and vice versa, it may show audigy, choose either of the others,
one
 of them will work. HTH
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Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live

[Dennis Myers]

On Saturday 03 April 2004 07:34 am, Marco Terzuoli wrote:
 I've tried that but it doesn't work either... Point is I've got both SB and
 a sound card integrated in my motherboard, which uses the via82xx module.
 Whatever options I choose, it is the intedgrated card which plays sound,
 whereas the SB remains shut up. Even selecting Sound Blaster from KMix
 doesn't change a thing. I tried to edit /etc/modules.conf to exclude the
 via drivers but they are loaded anyway Does anyone know how not to let
 them be loaded at boot time?

 - Original Message -
 From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 2:51 AM
 Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live

  On Friday 02 April 2004 09:54 am, Marco Terzuoli wrote:
   Hi,
   I have just installed Mandrake 10.0 Community and I have a problem

 having

   my Sound Blaster Live working correctly. Actually the installer

 recognizes

   it and (hopefully) installs the correct driver, but there is no way of
   hearing anything, except from interferences from the microphone and
   such things (which anyhow means that in some weird way the system

 communicates

   with the sound card). I tried to fix things up using KMix and the sound
   configuration tool to switch from ALSA to OSS and stuff like that, but
   I could only manage to get rid of the interferences, which means I hear
   nothing at all Also, I would like to point out that I had some

 problems

   running xmms... it actually starts, but usually crashes withins seconds
   (even though sometimes, with no apparent reason, it works well

 meaning

   that I can see the freequency bars going up and down, of course I hear
   nothing). Looking through the net I found that it is due to some glib
   problem, but no solution to it was given, so if someone knows what to
   do please tell me. Thanks everybody,
   Marco
  
   PS
   I'm sorry if some of you got this message twice, but I received an
   error saying that it could not be delivered to all of the users in the
   list, s

 o I

   sent it again
 
  Marco, try this, go into the Mandrake Control Center and choose hardware

 and

  click on the sound card  you have showing on the left, then on the right

 side

  click run configuration. There is usually three driver choices once it

 gets

  to that point, if it shows yours using the snd-emu10k1 choose to use just

 the

  emu10k1 and vice versa, it may show audigy, choose either of the others,

 one

  of them will work. HTH
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Re: [newbie] sound in mdk 10

[Frank]

It might be that MandrakeMove is using the 2.4.x kernel whilst Mandrake 
10 installs the 2.6.3 kernel.

Please correct me if I got that wrong, but if so,
then what do we need to do to get sound working on slightly earlier systems?
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Rory wrote:

Something does appear to be funky with sound card recognition in 10.0.  My 
card is found and listed in 10.0 but no sound.  However, when I pop in the 
Mandrake Live CD, it always activates sound. Hmm...

Rory

On Tuesday 30 March 2004 6:06 pm, Wayne Petherick wrote:
 

Stevie,
I wish!  It doesn't exist at all, in fact the arts sound server crashes on
startup.  It only really gives me two options for the sound card.  I am
going to reinstall and try again today.
Wayne

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sweeney, Stephen
Sent: Tuesday, 30 March 2004 8:35 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] sound in mdk 10
Hi,

I had the same sort of problem with my Vaio...

Let me guess - XMMS won't play, KDE crashes on startup, Mplayer is flakey?

Check your sound driver in DrakConf (go to Hardware and configure the sound
driver from there). I noticed that the sound driver that Mandrake was using
was different to the one I had used to MDK9.0... I picked the original one
and rebooted. Everything works perfectly now.
(I also screwed about with sound other things, but it's likely was I
barking up the wrong tree).
Stevie :)

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From: Wayne Petherick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] sound in mdk 10
All,
I have finally got mdk 10 working on my Asus M6 laptop, but frustratingly
am missing the sound.  Can anyone tell me how I might be able to get around
this?  Mdk picks it up as a Intel Corp ICH4 845 G/GL Chipset AC97.  It is
the only aspect (apaer from my soft modem) that I can't get to work.
Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

Wayne
   




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RE: [newbie] sound in mdk 10

[Sweeney, Stephen]

Hi,

I had the same sort of problem with my Vaio...

Let me guess - XMMS won't play, KDE crashes on startup, Mplayer is flakey?

Check your sound driver in DrakConf (go to Hardware and configure the sound
driver from there). I noticed that the sound driver that Mandrake was using
was different to the one I had used to MDK9.0... I picked the original one
and rebooted. Everything works perfectly now.

(I also screwed about with sound other things, but it's likely was I barking
up the wrong tree).

Stevie :)

-Original Message-
From: Wayne Petherick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] sound in mdk 10


All,
I have finally got mdk 10 working on my Asus M6 laptop, but frustratingly am
missing the sound.  Can anyone tell me how I might be able to get around
this?  Mdk picks it up as a Intel Corp ICH4 845 G/GL Chipset AC97.  It is
the only aspect (apaer from my soft modem) that I can't get to work.
 
Any help appreciated.
 
Thanks,

Wayne

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Re: [newbie] sound in mdk 10

[Frank]

Wayne Petherick wrote:

All,

I have finally got mdk 10 working on my Asus M6 laptop, but 
frustratingly am missing the sound. Can anyone tell me how I might be 
able to get around this? Mdk picks it up as a Intel Corp ICH4 845 G/GL 
Chipset AC97. It is the only aspect (apaer from my soft modem) that I 
cant get to work.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

Wayne

Hope some of the following will help you find your sound, I'm still 
trying and I certainly don't understand a lot of this.

Try :-

#lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO ( should tell which driver your card uses 
by default )

#grep sound-slot /etc/modules.conf ( should tell you what driver it 
currently uses )

#/sbin/lsmod ( should enable you to check if its module is loaded or not )

#aumix -q ( will tell you if the sound level is muted or not -- Here I 
found aumix hadn't been installed so will wait till tomorrows reboot to 
see if it works or not having done '#urpmi aumix' to install it. )

#/sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp ( should tell you which program uses the sound 
card -- here I got nothing at all ??? )

All this is taken from Mandrake10 install scripts so if you missed them 
then I hope they help. And if you get sound working please share with me 
so as I might learn how to do this myself.

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Re: [newbie] sound in mdk 10

[Hoyt Bailey]

On Tuesday 30 March 2004 05:28, Frank wrote:
 Wayne Petherick wrote:
  All,
 
  I have finally got mdk 10 working on my Asus M6 laptop, but
  frustratingly am missing the sound. Can anyone tell me how I might
  be able to get around this? Mdk picks it up as a Intel Corp ICH4
  845 G/GL Chipset AC97. It is the only aspect (apaer from my soft
  modem) that I cant get to work.
 
  Any help appreciated.
 
  Thanks,
 
 
  Wayne

 Hope some of the following will help you find your sound, I'm still
 trying and I certainly don't understand a lot of this.

 Try :-
Althou I am running 9.2 the following seemed like a good ideal.  Better 
than mine at the moment.  I have a gigabyte KH400 mb w/OB audio.  The 
odds are high that I will never see this post,  unless someone answers 
so are the following responses correct?

 #lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO ( should tell which driver your card
 uses by default )
snd-via82xx :   VIA technologies | VT8233 [AC97 Audio Controller ]  
MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO]  (vendor:1106 device: 3059 subv:1458 subd:a002)

 #grep sound-slot /etc/modules.conf ( should tell you what driver it
 currently uses )
alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx
alias sound-slot-1 nvaudio
#there is only one audio card in the system what is sound-slot-1 doing 
here#

 #/sbin/lsmod ( should enable you to check if its module is loaded or
 not )
See test1

 #aumix -q ( will tell you if the sound level is muted or not -- Here
 I found aumix hadn't been installed so will wait till tomorrows
 reboot to see if it works or not having done '#urpmi aumix' to
 install it. )
bash: aumix:  command not found

 #/sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp ( should tell you which program uses the
 sound card -- here I got nothing at all ??? )
Like you nothing

 All this is taken from Mandrake10 install scripts so if you missed
 them then I hope they help. And if you get sound working please share
 with me so as I might learn how to do this myself.

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Module  Size  Used byNot tainted
ppp_deflate 4472   0  (autoclean)
bsd_comp5400   0  (autoclean)
lp  8160   0 
parport_pc 25544   1 
parport34472   1  [lp parport_pc]
snd-seq-oss32000   0  (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event  6080   0  [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq42544   2  [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-pcm-oss43652   0  (unused)
snd-mixer-oss  14200   1  [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-via82xx15360   1 
snd-pcm79588   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx]
snd-timer  18436   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 45720   0  [snd-via82xx]
snd-mpu401-uart 4704   0  [snd-via82xx]
snd-rawmidi17760   0  [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device  5832   0  [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
snd-page-alloc  9044   0  [snd-via82xx snd-pcm]
snd41380   0  [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss 
snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi 
snd-seq-device]
soundcore   6340   0  [snd]
nfsd   75280   8  (autoclean)
ppp_async   9312   0 
ppp_generic24292   0  [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async]
slhc6564   0  [ppp_generic]
af_packet  14856   0  (autoclean)
sr_mod 19384   0  (autoclean)
floppy 55932   0 
8139too17384   1  (autoclean)
mii 3864   0  (autoclean) [8139too]
supermount 84032   2  (autoclean)
ide-cd 33956   0 
cdrom  32608   0  [sr_mod ide-cd]
ide-scsi   11376   0 
scsi_mod  106176   2  [sr_mod ide-scsi]
ehci-hcd   19212   0  (unused)
usb-uhci   25136   0  (unused)
usbcore74988   1  [ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
rtc 9004   0  (autoclean)
reiserfs  198004   9 

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RE: [newbie] sound in mdk 10

[Wayne Petherick]

Stevie,
I wish!  It doesn't exist at all, in fact the arts sound server crashes on
startup.  It only really gives me two options for the sound card.  I am
going to reinstall and try again today.

Wayne

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sweeney, Stephen
Sent: Tuesday, 30 March 2004 8:35 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] sound in mdk 10

Hi,

I had the same sort of problem with my Vaio...

Let me guess - XMMS won't play, KDE crashes on startup, Mplayer is flakey?

Check your sound driver in DrakConf (go to Hardware and configure the sound
driver from there). I noticed that the sound driver that Mandrake was using
was different to the one I had used to MDK9.0... I picked the original one
and rebooted. Everything works perfectly now.

(I also screwed about with sound other things, but it's likely was I barking
up the wrong tree).

Stevie :)

-Original Message-
From: Wayne Petherick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] sound in mdk 10


All,
I have finally got mdk 10 working on my Asus M6 laptop, but frustratingly am
missing the sound.  Can anyone tell me how I might be able to get around
this?  Mdk picks it up as a Intel Corp ICH4 845 G/GL Chipset AC97.  It is
the only aspect (apaer from my soft modem) that I can't get to work.
 
Any help appreciated.
 
Thanks,

Wayne


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Re: [newbie] sound in mdk 10

[Rory]

Something does appear to be funky with sound card recognition in 10.0.  My 
card is found and listed in 10.0 but no sound.  However, when I pop in the 
Mandrake Live CD, it always activates sound. Hmm...

Rory


On Tuesday 30 March 2004 6:06 pm, Wayne Petherick wrote:
 Stevie,
 I wish!  It doesn't exist at all, in fact the arts sound server crashes on
 startup.  It only really gives me two options for the sound card.  I am
 going to reinstall and try again today.

 Wayne

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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sweeney, Stephen
 Sent: Tuesday, 30 March 2004 8:35 PM
 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
 Subject: RE: [newbie] sound in mdk 10

 Hi,

 I had the same sort of problem with my Vaio...

 Let me guess - XMMS won't play, KDE crashes on startup, Mplayer is flakey?

 Check your sound driver in DrakConf (go to Hardware and configure the sound
 driver from there). I noticed that the sound driver that Mandrake was using
 was different to the one I had used to MDK9.0... I picked the original one
 and rebooted. Everything works perfectly now.

 (I also screwed about with sound other things, but it's likely was I
 barking up the wrong tree).

 Stevie :)

 -Original Message-
 From: Wayne Petherick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:38 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [newbie] sound in mdk 10


 All,
 I have finally got mdk 10 working on my Asus M6 laptop, but frustratingly
 am missing the sound.  Can anyone tell me how I might be able to get around
 this?  Mdk picks it up as a Intel Corp ICH4 845 G/GL Chipset AC97.  It is
 the only aspect (apaer from my soft modem) that I can't get to work.

 Any help appreciated.

 Thanks,

 Wayne

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Re: [newbie] Sound with ASUS Motherboard P4P800

[Tom Brinkman]

On Monday 29 March 2004 12:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello,

 did anyone succeed to make sound working with the onboard sound
 on a ASUS Motherboard P4P800.

 There is a driver on the ASUS CD and on their web site but this
 driver doesn't seem to work.

 Cheers
 Yvan

   From Asus' website,

ADI AD1985 SoundMAX 6-channel CODEC
 Audio Sensing and Enumeration Technology
 support S/PDIF out interface 
...

   I've got an Asus A7V600, VIA KT600 chipset which has an ADI, 
AD1980 onboard sound chip.  It uses alsa, AC97 compliant on Mdk 
10.0, kernel 2.6.4, without the need for aumix, alsaconf.
   Works surprisingly well! ;)

snd-via82xx : VIA Technologies|VT8233 [AC97 Audio Controller] 
[MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO]

 Run 'draksound' as root in a term, follow all the steps under 
trouble shooting if needed. Your driver with that i865 chipset 
board could likely be different.  Actually i8xxx chipset is more 
a cause for possible concern.  Particularly since that board is a 
i8xx chipset, VIA controllers mix.  I suspect the ADI chip needs 
the VIA driver, so try both the Intel and VIA drivers. You probly 
don't need to get one, they're already available on your **system

   **BTW, it's very important to include which Mandrake version 
you're using, and which kernel.  Particularly now with people 
runnin 9.x or 10.0 with either 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels
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Re: [newbie] Sound card problems

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On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:21, Troy Thomas Hall wrote:
 ok, not quite solved.  I have no mpg or mpeg sounds.

xmms plugins?

Anne
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Re: [newbie] Sound Server Fatal Error

[Mike Fehse]

Some liberial snipping done below

 On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 21:18:10 -0500
 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
 I don't exactly see a problem with a newbie using
 a beta or rc version of Linux. After all, I am here
 for the experience.

 I don't really ineed/i Linux. I'm 13 years old
 and this happens to be one of my hobbies. 

 I'm just here to learn. What's the fun of just
 using 9.2?

The main problem I have with the idea of a newbie
using any non-stable release, weather it be alpha,
beta, or a release canidate, is that it isn't
completely stable.  Microsoft has enought problems
with theire stable releases (i.e. Windows 9x, 2kx, ME,
XP, NT), that it is frustrating.  If you start mucking
around with something not stable, then the frustration
level can raise rather fast.  If you become too
frustrated, then you may give up, and not return. 
That can be the biggest drawback to it, and the main
reason I object to the idea.  

You don't need Linux, and I don't need a phone.  Both
are wants, not needs, and something we can do without.
 But do we really want to be without?  And besides,
isn't a command line a more truer form of using a
computer, than say a mouse in a GUI?

Linux is fun, and so is any number of other things. 
Linux can also be a chore, work, and a tool.  You can
try downloading, and installing, Gentoo.  That distro
is not quiet a Linux From Scratch, but pretty close to
it.  Not only is it fun, for being able to peer inside
the workings of Linux, but it is a great learning tool
as well.  What is the fun of just using a regular XBox
to play games with?  Mdk 9.2 has enought to keep most
people exploring it for a long while.

Mike (a.k.a. AWEV)

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Re: [newbie] Sound Server Fatal Error

[Chuck Mattsen]

On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 07:47, Marc Resnick wrote:
 I'm getting a sporadic error that reads: Sound Server fatal error: cpu
 overload, aborting.
 
 Also, my mixer settings are never restored. 
 
 I'm using mdk10rc with kernel 2.6.2-3

FWIW, I received that same error quite frequently when I had 10beta2
installed, but have never seen it after dropping down to 9.2.  Beyond
that observation, I have nothing helpful to add, I'm afraid.
-- 
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Re: [newbie] Sound Server Fatal Error

[et]

On Saturday 28 February 2004 08:51 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote:
 On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 07:47, Marc Resnick wrote:
  I'm getting a sporadic error that reads: Sound Server fatal error: cpu
  overload, aborting.
 
  Also, my mixer settings are never restored.
 
  I'm using mdk10rc with kernel 2.6.2-3

 FWIW, I received that same error quite frequently when I had 10beta2
 installed, but have never seen it after dropping down to 9.2.  Beyond
 that observation, I have nothing helpful to add, I'm afraid.
I would add that problems with rc and beta versions should be taken to the 
cooker lists, and no newbie should be using an rc or beta version. on the 
cooker list you will find a number of these and the solution at this time is 
to wait until monday, or try to change the sound configuration in MCC.

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Re: [newbie] Sound Server Fatal Error

[Marc Resnick]

On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:06 am, et wrote:
 On Saturday 28 February 2004 08:51 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote:
  On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 07:47, Marc Resnick wrote:
   I'm getting a sporadic error that reads: Sound Server fatal error: cpu
   overload, aborting.
  
   Also, my mixer settings are never restored.
  
   I'm using mdk10rc with kernel 2.6.2-3
 
  FWIW, I received that same error quite frequently when I had 10beta2
  installed, but have never seen it after dropping down to 9.2.  Beyond
  that observation, I have nothing helpful to add, I'm afraid.

 I would add that problems with rc and beta versions should be taken to the
 cooker lists, and no newbie should be using an rc or beta version. on the
 cooker list you will find a number of these and the solution at this time
 is to wait until monday, or try to change the sound configuration in MCC.

I don't exactly see a problem with a newbie using a beta or rc version of 
Linux. After all, I am here for the experience. I don't really ineed/i 
Linux. I'm 13 years old and this happens to be one of my hobbies. Notice I 
post a lot with my various problems. It's because I fiddle around, break 
things, then fix them. Just something I like to do. Only on this laptop one 
hard drive has gone defunct(I swear that wasn't my fault =)), I've 
reinstalled like something like 6 times, and Windows 3 or 4, and I 
accidentaly formatted my hard drive once too. I've been told that there's a 
way to fix everything in Linux...quite the opposite of Windows, without 
expensive software and tools.

I'm just here to learn. What's the fun of just using 9.2?

--Marc

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Re: [newbie] Sound Server Fatal Error

[Stephen Reynolds]

On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 12:48, Marc Resnick wrote:

 I'm just here to learn. What's the fun of just using 9.2?

Good point, and the world needs more beta testers. I need a robust
workstation so I don't use beta software and I don't like to fiddle. If
everybody was like me how would developers find beta testers to test
their software.

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Re: [newbie] Sound is kaput

[Amichai Rotman]

On Friday 20 February 2004 05:01, Brandon Rife wrote:
 The sound driver info is below. I've tried both the maestro and
 snd-es1968 drivers with no luck. I do know that the maestro module
 was working. Should it matter, this problem is occurring on a Micron
 Transport ZX laptop.

 Vendor: ?ESS Technology
 Alternative drivers: ?snd-es1968
 Bus: ?PCI
 Bus identification: ?125d:1978:144d:3240
 Location on the bus: ?0:c:0
 Description: ?ES1978 Maestro 2E
 Module: ?maestro
 Media class: ?MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO

Hi Brandon,

The problem seems to be the aRts Server.

I had a similar problem. This is what I've done:

I started by running draksound. If it detects the soundcard, it will 
configure the right driver (module) if it doesn't work, click the 
Trouble shooting button. It gives you a few suggestions to follow. Try 
it. 

If that doesn't work, try running alsaconf. That solved it for me. ;-)

Good Luck !

Write back if you didn't succeed, I have a few more ideas.

.::.

Amichai Rotman

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Re: [newbie] Sound is kaput

[Brandon Rife]

Amichai Rotman wrote:

On Friday 20 February 2004 05:01, Brandon Rife wrote:
 

The sound driver info is below. I've tried both the maestro and
snd-es1968 drivers with no luck. I do know that the maestro module
was working. Should it matter, this problem is occurring on a Micron
Transport ZX laptop.
Vendor: ?ESS Technology
Alternative drivers: ?snd-es1968
Bus: ?PCI
Bus identification: ?125d:1978:144d:3240
Location on the bus: ?0:c:0
Description: ?ES1978 Maestro 2E
Module: ?maestro
Media class: ?MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO
   

Hi Brandon,

The problem seems to be the aRts Server.

I had a similar problem. This is what I've done:

I started by running draksound. If it detects the soundcard, it will 
configure the right driver (module) if it doesn't work, click the 
Trouble shooting button. It gives you a few suggestions to follow. Try 
it. 

If that doesn't work, try running alsaconf. That solved it for me. ;-)

Good Luck !

Write back if you didn't succeed, I have a few more ideas.

.::.

Amichai Rotman

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Thank you my friend, your advice fixed the problem!

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Re: [newbie] Sound is kaput

[Lanman]

On February 19, 2004 09:03 pm, Brandon Rife wrote:
  Hello,

  I must have done something to break my sound card. It worked a couple of
 days ago but now when KDE is initilaizing I get the following error
 message.

 Error while initializing the sound driver:
  device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)
  The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

 I get a similar error when loading Gnome.  I'm running MDK 9.2.  Thanks for
 any help you can offer!

  Brandon

Brandon; Please do everything in your power to disable HTML encoding in your 
emails, as this is the prime way that many viruses are transmitted around the 
Internet. 

Many people on this list will simply not respond to your problems due to this 
fact alone. Sometime in the next week, you will receive an email regarding 
the protocols on this list.

Please do your best to study and adopt those protocols to ensure a pleasrable 
experience for all.

In the meantime, try using the MCC  hardware panel to re-detect your sound 
card  and asign a proper driver module to it.

It would also be a big help if you could include additional info regarding 
which version of Linux and the brand and model of sound card.

Thanks
-- 
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Registered Linux user #190712

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