---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [newbie] Fwd: Sound(continues) Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:24:29 -0500 From: Marcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear John & Tom, Thank you very much for your help. > > OSS or the commercial driver vendor? The commercial from 4 Front Technologies. It worked right away, except for the problems I already mentioned. OSS is Open (ie, free, and open) > >Sound System, the commercial vendor most likely _isn't_. Just what > >vendor driver did you get, anyhow? A quick search turned up > >http://www.opensound.com/ That is the vendor. > > What does 'less /proc/interrupts' say? cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 128225 XT-PIC timer 1: 89 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 6572 XT-PIC eth0, 8233 audio 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 11: 0 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci 12: 19548 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 26275 XT-PIC ide0 15: 4 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 I really suspect you've got > >a hardware deficiency or a bios mis-config. A decent AC97 should'a been > >reocgnized and setup with no effort. You do have (M$) pn'pray support > >turned off in bios, no? Another good bet is to turn off (M$) APIC in > >bios. Well, I sure would hope I do not have a hardware deficiency since this is a brand new Athlon XP 1600+ with 512 megs of ram. I ordered extra cooling besides. The sound from the CD was absolutely great right away. I now have xmms working and mpg123 working just fine . It might have been a bios problem all along and I now think that I truly did not need to purchase the sound driver if I had known. I went into the bios and turned off plug and pray , freed up the irq's, turned off the power management, etc, and tried to put the ethernet on a different irq but it will not work on the others I tried such as 9, 10, or 11. As you can see, the ethernet and audio are sharing the irq. As of now, for some reason it is not presenting a problem anymore. I was able to use the net and play as many tunes on xmms as I wished without them stopping. The only problem I am having at this time is that the startup system sounds do not work except in root. I think that has to be a permissions problem or something. The startup music for LM8.2 sounded terrible-alot of static, from root, but all of the music from CD, and mp3 players sound good. If it is a permission problem how would I change that properly? If not, what could it be? Thanks very much for your help John and Tom. I appreciate it. At least I have some quality sound now so progress is being made. Sincerely, Marcia > I tend to agree with Tom, here's my > > /proc/interrupts > > CPU0 > 0: 196838 XT-PIC timer > 1: 2366 XT-PIC keyboard > 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade > 4: 37341 XT-PIC serial > 5: 25 XT-PIC usb-ohci, usb-uhci, usb-uhci, usb-uhci > 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc > 10: 467 XT-PIC VIA 8233 Audio > 11: 0 XT-PIC usb-ohci > 12: 74578 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse > 14: 31057 XT-PIC ide0 > 15: 10 XT-PIC ide1 > NMI: 0 > LOC: 0 > ERR: 0 > MIS: 0 > > I have via8233, I have AC97 codec , MSI mobo. and mine works perfectly > with alsa, in both M8.1+8.2. How, exactly did you install and setup alsa? I would like to try this to see if it works even though I purchased the commercial product already. I would like to compare the two. Thanks again for your info and help. Marcia ------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE: I thought everything was working well but the music is stopping after a few minutes again. I cannot seem to find another irq to work with my ethernet card so it does not share with my audio. Any suggestions? Thanks, Marcia
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