Re: [newbie] Sound Problems on 9.2 Install

2003-12-07 Thread Graham Watkins
On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 21:32, Graham Watkins wrote: I'm going to give up for tonight, log into windows and listen to Andy Kershaw on the beeb. Tomorrow is another day Unfortunately, it's just like the last one. Still no sound. Anyone got any more ideas? cheers, Graham Watkins Normal

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems on 9.2 Install

2003-12-07 Thread Graham Watkins
Graham Watkins wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 21:32, Graham Watkins wrote: I'm going to give up for tonight, log into windows and listen to Andy Kershaw on the beeb. Tomorrow is another day Unfortunately, it's just like the last one. Still no sound. Anyone got any more ideas? Just to let you

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems on 9.2 Install

2003-12-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 6:10 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Y'all, Finally plucked up the courage to install 9.2 this afternoon, and already I'm regretting it. The sound is next to useless being extremely quiet, poor quality and almost drowned out by hiss. I've checked the mixer settings and

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems on 9.2 Install

2003-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 06 December 2003 06:10 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Y'all, Finally plucked up the courage to install 9.2 this afternoon, and already I'm regretting it. The sound is next to useless being extremely quiet, poor quality and almost drowned out by hiss. I've checked the mixer settings

Re: [newbie] sound problems Via AC97 on Sony Vaio

2003-06-17 Thread Vahur Lokk
On Monday 16 June 2003 21:57, Lavanya Vasudevan wrote: Thank you, but I'm afraid that doesn't work either. The alternative driver seems to be an OSS one, via82cxxx_audio. It also freezes my system. I checked on the ALSA web page and snd-via82xx does seem to be the driver recommended for my

Re: [newbie] sound problems Via AC97 on Sony Vaio

2003-06-16 Thread Lavanya Vasudevan
Thank you, but I'm afraid that doesn't work either. The alternative driver seems to be an OSS one, via82cxxx_audio. It also freezes my system. I checked on the ALSA web page and snd-via82xx does seem to be the driver recommended for my card. I downloaded the ALSA drivers and re-installed ALSA

Re: [newbie] sound problems Via AC97 on Sony Vaio

2003-06-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 12:12 am, Lavanya Vasudevan wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble getting my Apollo Super AC97 sound card to work on my Sony Vaio PCG FXA47, running Mandrake 9.1. Here are the details from HardDrake: I don't know specifics for this card, but in principle, go to mcc,

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems in MDK 9.1

2003-06-06 Thread rluchor
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 14:25, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 01:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning I updated my 9.0 to 9.1 without a hitch except for sound - there isn't any. The system is recognizing my sound card OK and I've checked all of the sound settings that

RE: [newbie] Sound Problems in MDK 9.1

2003-06-06 Thread Dennis . R . Myers
Title: RE: [newbie] Sound Problems in MDK 9.1 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 2:32 PM To: Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Problems in MDK 9.1 On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 14:25, Ronald J

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems in MDK 9.1

2003-06-06 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi this command throws out on my machine: COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME artsd 5290 williamjay8u CHR 14,3 1586 /dev/sound/dsp Can somebody interpret this for me? Still trying to get KsCD and Grip etc working. But its not deserate as Xine will play

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems in MDK 9.1

2003-06-06 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 06 Jun 2003 9:32 pm, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi this command throws out on my machine: COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME artsd 5290 williamjay8u CHR 14,3 1586 /dev/sound/dsp Can somebody interpret this for me? You appear to have the same

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems in MDK 9.1

2003-06-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 06 June 2003 04:32 pm, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi this command throws out on my machine: COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME artsd 5290 williamjay8u CHR 14,3 1586 /dev/sound/dsp Can somebody interpret this for me? Yep, arts has hold of

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems in MDK 9.1

2003-06-06 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Odd thing is if I turn arts off I don't get system sounds or anything from my apps either. Oddly Xine does not seem to be effected it being switched off. I am confused now (not hard!) John On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 21:39:25 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 Jun 2003

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems in MDK 9.1

2003-06-06 Thread Anguo
On 07 2003 03:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 06 June 2003 01:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning I updated my 9.0 to 9.1 without a hitch except for sound - there isn't any. The system is recognizing my sound card OK and I've checked all of the sound settings that I can

Re: [newbie] sound problems (the political aspect)

2002-07-12 Thread tom brinkman
On Friday 12 July 2002 04:20 pm, Mark Stewart wrote: Hi Tom, Howdy yourself ethical? as in Micro$soft ? Gosh, no. Their complete lack of ethics is the reason I abhor Microsoft. There ya go [ Optional, but requested, is quit buyin Dells. Then they wouldn't have so damn

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-11 Thread et
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 11:54 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 10 July 2002 07:26 pm, et wrote: but really Tom, how do you fell about winmodems (just joking) No worse or better than any other win-hardware, they don't even work very well with M$ winwoes. The shame of it is gettin the more

Re: [newbie] sound problems (the political aspect)

2002-07-11 Thread tom brinkman
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 09:35 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 10 July 2002 07:14 pm, tom brinkman wrote: That's not a guess, usin closed source SW/drivers IS. Your choice, but it has an effect on all of us, and not for the better Once again I ask the question, what video

Re: [newbie] sound problems (the political aspect)

2002-07-11 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 July 2002 08:03 am, Mark Stewart did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: If all you need is good 2D then Matrox or ATi have open source drivers and their older models can be found for under $100 easily. I haven't heard of any

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-10 Thread mike
though I am not a Linux guru by any means, I would like to concur with the thoughs of Lyvim. I have severial win only type bits of hardware, like my Nvidia card, Win hp printer, etc. and have found that as LX mentioned it was only a matter of configuration. In fact I like to try to put LM on

RE: [newbie] sound problems (the political aspect)

2002-07-10 Thread Mark Stewart
Save your sanity, try to avoid win-hardware in the future, blame uncle billy for aureal. Look here to find a_real sound card http://www.alsa-project.org/~goemon/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas In defense of Aureal, the hardware itself

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-10 Thread tom brinkman
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 06:01 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I don't disagree with the principles stated, as I tried to make clear. What I do disagree with is when an ex Dos user or ex winblows user is told to trash their beloved hardware that they may So it's simply a user choice, and not

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-10 Thread tom brinkman
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 01:12 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: tom brinkman wrote: All I originally said was Save your sanity, try to avoid win-hardware in the future, blame uncle billy for aureal. Look here to find a_real sound card Maybe so, but, AFAICT, you also said this:

Re: [newbie] sound problems (the political aspect)

2002-07-10 Thread tom brinkman
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 03:16 pm, civileme wrote: frightening future of Linux Co.'s snipped But, make no mistake, the issue is open versus closed source. On 5% of the market and a whole lot less than 5% of the money, linux has made a world-class Op system that makes Windows look sick.

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-10 Thread et
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 04:48 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 10 July 2002 01:12 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: tom brinkman wrote: All I originally said was Save your sanity, try to avoid win-hardware in the future, blame uncle billy for aureal. Look here to find a_real sound card

Re: [newbie] sound problems (the political aspect)

2002-07-10 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 07:14 pm, tom brinkman wrote: Mark Stewart wrote: Save your sanity, try to avoid win-hardware in the future, blame uncle billy for aureal. Look here to find a_real sound card http://www.alsa-project.org/~goemon/ -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-10 Thread tom brinkman
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 07:26 pm, et wrote: but really Tom, how do you fell about winmodems (just joking) No worse or better than any other win-hardware, they don't even work very well with M$ winwoes. The shame of it is gettin the more or less unsuspecting public to pay $40 for $2

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-09 Thread tom brinkman
On Monday 08 July 2002 11:55 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 17:38, tom brinkman wrote: On Monday 08 July 2002 03:20 pm, john drouhard wrote: I need a lot of help. I am very fed up with my aureal card. I have everything I can think of. I have a vortex 2 (au8830). I have

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-09 Thread john drouhard
On Monday 08 July 2002 11:17 pm, you wrote: John, I'll try to help as best I can. Sorry that the information you've gotten so far has not helped; I hope we can get it working. Have you tried changing the interrupt that the card resides on? And have you managed to get the exact model of

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-09 Thread civileme
john drouhard wrote: I need a lot of help. I am very fed up with my aureal card. I have everything I can think of. I have a vortex 2 (au8830). I have installed the CVS drivers from Sourceforge, and the install did not find my aureal card. I had to manually make the driver as an au8830. It

RE: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-09 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] sound problems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 3:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] sound problems john drouhard wrote: I need a lot of help. I am very fed

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-08 Thread tom brinkman
On Monday 08 July 2002 03:20 pm, john drouhard wrote: I need a lot of help. I am very fed up with my aureal card. I have everything I can think of. I have a vortex 2 (au8830). I have installed the CVS drivers from Sourceforge, and the install did not find my aureal card. I had to manually

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)

2002-07-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 04 Jul 2002 10:01 pm, you wrote: Is your sound working ok, or are there still problems with the XMMS plugins. aRtsd is used by ALSA, so if you choose that in KDE control center, then it will definitely use aRtsd. I advise putting it back on OSS or Autodetect. ALSA has

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)

2002-07-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 05 Jul 2002 8:54 am, you wrote: On Friday 05 July 2002 02:46 am, you wrote: Something went wrong overnight. I tried to start XMMS this morning, and it froze. I tried a fresh login, then a re-boot, but I'm without sound again. What should I check now, please? Anne Hi Anne,

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)

2002-07-05 Thread FemmeFatale
Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 04 July 2002 05:01 pm, you wrote: Not wanting to throw a monkey wrench into anything but for those with a SBLive! like I have, I discovered that if you do not load the alsa player and the associated alsautils during the actual installation of the OS, then

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)

2002-07-05 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 05 July 2002 08:06 pm, you wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 04 July 2002 05:01 pm, you wrote: Not wanting to throw a monkey wrench into anything but for those with a SBLive! like I have, I discovered that if you do not load the alsa player and the associated alsautils

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)

2002-07-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 03 Jul 2002 10:32 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 03 July 2002 01:42 pm, you wrote: Thanks - that's a great help. At least it has started up (fresh login) without the error messages. Any other recommendations while we're on the subject? Anne Is your sound working ok, or

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)

2002-07-03 Thread john drouhard
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:28 am, you wrote: I keep getting error messages llike Artsd should run with realtime scheduling, but it does not (is artswrapper suid root?). The aRts sound daemon will not autosuspend right now since there are active modeles. SounServer shows Run soundserver

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)

2002-07-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 03 Jul 2002 11:27 am, you wrote: On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:28 am, you wrote: I keep getting error messages llike Artsd should run with realtime scheduling, but it does not (is artswrapper suid root?). The aRts sound daemon will not autosuspend right now since there are

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)

2002-07-03 Thread john drouhard
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 01:42 pm, you wrote: Thanks - that's a great help. At least it has started up (fresh login) without the error messages. Any other recommendations while we're on the subject? Anne Is your sound working ok, or are there still problems with the XMMS plugins. aRtsd

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)

2002-06-30 Thread civileme
Anne Wilson wrote: Whilst browsing the documentation for XMMS, I checked the XMMS Preferences Window. I foud that the Output Plugin being used was OSS, although aRTS is running. The documentation says that it is very important to get this right, but I can find no way of changing it. It

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-06-23 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 15:59:59 -0400 KC1DI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all just joined the list.. and need some help.. I have had no sucess trying to configure my audio in Mandrake 8.2.. I Have an SIS onboard audio card get the error message /dev/dsp not valid device when KDE starts up

Re: [newbie] Sound problems with Dell OptiPlex GX1

2002-04-05 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On 03 Apr 2002 13:40:03 -0800 James A. Peltier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Mandrake 8.2 yesterday hoping that it would properly detect and configure my CS4232 based sound card. When this didn't happen my heart sank and I began to cry Why GOD!!!? Why doesn't it work!!? After

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2001-05-28 Thread milt
Got sound functioning on my system now BUT, it tends to freeze up all the time! I mean a total freeze up. What would be causing this to happen? CD Player works fine. I can get XMMS to load and play a song.. but then when I go to load another song it freezes up! The sound is working but it seems

Re: [newbie] sound problems LM7.0

2001-05-24 Thread hellmut
Hi! Is there maybe an onboard soundchip in your system? I once had problems with this onboard crap and had to to manually configure the soundcard. Using the onboard chip made my system hang, too. I experience system hangs when trying to play mp3's.My hardware:Western Digital 18 Gb hd(7200

Re: [newbie] Sound problems

2000-06-09 Thread michael
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi John, You may need an updated driver - go here : http://www.opensource.creativelabs.com/ and download the latest source. Follow the readme directions on compiling and installing - should give you sound. philomena John McCrudden wrote: I have a

Re: [newbie] Sound problems (fwd)

2000-06-09 Thread philomena
a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Forwarded message -- Date: 07 Jun 2000 11:34:01 +0200 From: Alexandre Dussart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Denis HAVLIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound problems (fwd) Denis

Re: [newbie] Sound problems (fwd)

2000-06-07 Thread Denis HAVLIK
] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound problems (fwd) Denis HAVLIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This happend now-and there. Why, actually? Because options to get it works(SB Live!) have been changed bewteen 7.0 and 7.1, and it was too late to adapt sounddrake, the best way is to upgrade to sounddrake 0.8 version

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2000-06-04 Thread philomena
Hi Paul, I tried your suggestions and still no luck - I don't even know where to look next - maybe re-install 7.02 and see what settings are in place - seems overkill. Not having system sounds is certainly not a show-stopper, but its aggravating ! BTW, you have a great website cheers, philomena

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2000-05-31 Thread philomena
Hi Paul, Tried that and no good. There are a few odd things now - when running sndconfig and the sample sound is attempted, an error is displayed about not accessing /dev/audio. I checked the permissions and it was set to root/sys. I changed it to root/audio and also root/root - made no

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems

2000-03-07 Thread Harold Hartley
Thomas Edwards wrote: I have a Sound Blaster Live Card installed on a new machine, I did a full install and added mostly everything on the system. When I went to configure the sound card it came back with a message says it can't find the modules not in the path. Can anyone tell me how to

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems

1999-10-25 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
Yes there is, the isapnptools. But you will want to read the documentation in /usr/doc/isapnptools/*. The information there is relatively complex, so be well rested when you start. In essence what you do is run pnpdump /etc/isaapnp.conf then edit the /etc/isapnp.conf file for your specific

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems

1999-10-23 Thread Sam
Try one of the Ensoniq chipsets. I think that is what the AWE cards were built on, I know it's the chipset the SB PCI xxx boards use Todd White wrote: i recently installed mandrake 6.1 .. and have no sound .. any ideas? the sound card is recognized .. its a SB Awe 32. Thanks in advance