On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 03:16:24 -0400 James Henry Maiewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, > > Thank you so much! Making the change in Mandrake Control center > let Kasper > the friendly dragon (does He have an official name?) come back, as > well as stopping the automatic login. I never thought to go beyond > the KDE control center. > > Thanks also for the tips regarding reinstaling. I am mostly > ignorant of the > ins and outs of HD partitions, but will do some reading and keep your > advice in mind. I was planning on doing this anyway, as I was going > to see if I could 'borrow' a copy of windo$ and install it on another > partition (I only have one HD) in my further attempts at coaxing > non-static sound out of my sound card. To answer your questions. I > have a SBLive! mp3+ 5.1. When I first bought the computer, I thought > that since I could play my CDs, everything was A-OK, but when I tries > to play an mp3 once, my illusions were sorely shattered. I've tried > changing permissions, drivers, arts/noarts(I guess arts is a KDE > thing, and I really prefer KDE, but Gnome is no better). > > The closest thing to sound that I can get out of the card is > louder static > when I play a file (it is so frustrating to see the EQ levels dancing > while I listen to hiss). As soon as I unmute the PCM slider, I open > myself up to the possibility of a static attack (it doesn't seem to be > predictable when it will come); moving the PCM slider makes a noise > like an electronic version of corduroy pants; turning arts off seems > to kill the noise as well. If there were one thing that I have read > about but haven't tried, its using ALSA in OSS emulation. I have no > idea what that is, or how one goes about doing it. > > That is really besides the point, I'll work on it slowly but > surely and > success will be all the sweeter. Thank you again. Jim, Do you have a cable between your cdrom drive and your sound card?? What you describe above seems to indicate that you may not. It's usually a skinny cable with a flat 4-pin connector at one end which fits to the flatish socket 4-pin connector toward one side at the rear of the cdrom drive. The other end will connect to some kind of header socket on the sound card - I'm not familiar with your card so can't help much there. Worth a look? John nz > > -Jim > > On Monday 02 June 2003 10:45 pm, Joeb wrote: > > When you did your upgrade, did you keep your existing home > > directory? If so, if you create a different user and log in as that > > user, do you still have the problems you refer to in your post? > > Very often, configuration files change between releases and the old > > configuration files in your home directory don't work properly in > > the new version. If the new user works correctly, you can try > > deleting the .kde folder in your home directory and logout and back > > in to kde (note, if you do so, you will lose all of your kde > > customizations you have done). With the .kde directory gone, kde > > will recreate the configuration files. > > > > When upgrading from one version to the next, my normal procedure is > > to rename my home directories to something else (like > > /home/mydir.old) then do an install instead of an upgrade (don't let > > the installer format / if home is on the / partition instead of a > > separate /home partition). In the installer, I recreate the users > > and then after the install is complete, I move back from the > > original directories, the files I want to keep (i.e. documents, > > emails, etc.). The downside to this method is that you lose any > > customizations that you have done to the windows manager (i.e. > > wallpapers, themes, etc.) > > > > > > Enough of all of that, in terms of your sound card problems, what > > type of sound card is it and does/did it work under 9.0? > > > > Also, to turn off the auto login at boot, you goto the Mandrake > > Control Center, select the Boot icon and select DrakBoot. Make sure > > to check the selection that says "No, I don't want autologin" at the > > bottom of the screen. If your MCC comes up like mine, you need to > > enlarge the window to see the OK and Cancel buttons, they don't show > > normally, but if you don't enlarge the window and hit one of them, > > you get a message about changes not being saved and they aren't. > > Hit OK to save the change. > > > > Hope that helps, > > > > Joeb > >
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