Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-11 Thread David B. Carter
David B. Carter said: I'm getting really frustrated with this sound problem! This morning I dug up an old SoundBlaser AWE32 card I had packed away, and I installed it in the machine I've been having trouble with. I disabled the onboard sound in the BIOS, I removed all references to sound

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-08 Thread David B. Carter
Given that your soundchip was not detected on installation, or that alsaconf fails to detect it, then I suspect you may may a problem with IRQ conflicts. If you type 'dmesg' in a terminal you will see all the boot messages. If you scroll up you may see some clues. No IRQ conflicts. I found

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 06 Mar 2004 01:22, David B. Carter wrote: Derek Jennings said: The modprobe snd-cs-4236 loads the driver. But it will not load on the next boot unless you configure /etc/modules.conf. That is what alsaconf is supposed to do for you, but for some reason alsaconf is unable to

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-06 Thread Mike Adolf
On Friday 05 March 2004 08:23 pm, David B. Carter wrote: Mike Adolf said: I have not read all the correspondence on this problem, so I may be suggesting something already tried. I also have the same sound system as you. For a long time I used 4236 driver (on MDK 91) and I could play CDs

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-06 Thread David B. Carter
Mike Adolf said: That's great! I'll give it a try as soon as I get a chance. Did you run alsaconf to autodetect the card using that driver? Or did you just manually configure it and it worked? I probably won't get a chance to try it tonight, and I'm going to be out of town tomorrow, but I'll

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-06 Thread David B. Carter
Derek Jennings said: Given that your soundchip was not detected on installation, or that alsaconf fails to detect it, then I suspect you may may a problem with IRQ conflicts. If you type 'dmesg' in a terminal you will see all the boot messages. If you scroll up you may see some clues

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 05 Mar 2004 09:20, David B. Carter wrote: Derek Jennings said: On Friday 05 Mar 2004 01:58, David B. Carter wrote: Hi all, I just subscribed to the list today in hopes of finding some help with my problem. I'm a new Linux user who's only been playing with it for a couple of

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-05 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David, could you please remove your reply-to, as it prevents replies going to the list. Further explanation at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette On Friday 05 March 2004 01:58, David B. Carter wrote: My

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-05 Thread David B. Carter
Thanks. Derek told me the same thing, so I have taken care of that already. Shouldn't be a problem from now on. Anne Wilson said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David, could you please remove your reply-to, as it prevents replies going to the list. Further explanation at

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-05 Thread David B. Carter
First on the reply-to issue... I took it out once, but I must have not saved the changes. Sorry. Do I have to take it out of all identities? I would think it only needs to be changed in the one I use for list postings. Anyway, thanks for the heads up. Hopefully it won't be a problem for this

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-05 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 March 2004 12:27, David B. Carter wrote: First on the reply-to issue... I took it out once, but I must have not saved the changes. Sorry. g We've all dont that at some time. Do I have to take it out of all identities? I would

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 05 Mar 2004 12:27, David B. Carter wrote: First on the reply-to issue... I took it out once, but I must have not saved the changes. Sorry. Do I have to take it out of all identities? I would think it only needs to be changed in the one I use for list postings. Anyway, thanks for the

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-05 Thread David B. Carter
Derek Jennings said: On Friday 05 Mar 2004 12:27, David B. Carter wrote: alsa-utils is on the install CDs. If it does not show up in rpmdrake then it may be already installed. Or else maybe you only have 1 CD (I am not sure which one it is on) If you cannot locate it just go here using

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-05 Thread David B. Carter
David B. Carter said: OK. I installed alsa-utils (and it dependency - pciutils) from the FTP address you gave above. It installed fine. When I ran alsaconf, it said that no PnP sound cards were detected and asked me if I wanted it to probe for ISA cards. I said OK and picked the CS4236 drivers

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-05 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 March 2004 16:26, David B. Carter wrote: At the urging of someone else who's not on this list, I tried a modprobe snd-cs-4236 I'm not even 100% sure what that does, but, after unmuting several of the main channels (master, pcm, cd,

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 05 Mar 2004 16:26, David B. Carter wrote: David B. Carter said: OK. I installed alsa-utils (and it dependency - pciutils) from the FTP address you gave above. It installed fine. When I ran alsaconf, it said that no PnP sound cards were detected and asked me if I wanted it to