Charlie, you said:
> The next thing you need to do is open a terminal, become super user
> and run the command drakxservices. Be sure sound is set to start at
> boot as well as alsa if
> that's what you're using. Just scroll down the list and find the
> services set to start at boot. If those two aren't in state "running"
> click the relevant
> Start buttons to activate them.
I ran the drakxservices command and found that sound is indeed set to
start at boot. alsa, on the other hand, is not. I tried clicking on
start and got the message "alsa driver not running" I clicked on start
at boot and clicked on the start button again and got the same message.
So I deselected start at boot for alsa and closed the window.
I then ran draksound. The info in the window is as follows,
Your card currently uses the OSS "es1371" driver (default driver
for your card is "es1371")
I opened the drakservices window again to look for the settings for OSS.
Of course there is no listing for OSS or "es1371 in the drakxservices
window.
I reopened the draksound window and clicked on troubleshooting. This
simply brought up a window telling me what various commands tell me.
/sbin/lsmod said it would tell me whether or not the driver is loaded so
I typed /sbin/lsmod at the command prompt and waited. Obviously nothing
was happening, so, after a while I closed the sound configuration
window. Once I closed the sound configuration window, the previously
entered /sbin/lsmod produced the following.
/sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
ppp_deflate 4472 0 (autoclean)
bsd_comp 5400 0 (autoclean)
lp 8160 0
parport_pc 25544 1
parport 34472 1 [lp parport_pc]
mga 98332 14
agpgart 48292 3 (autoclean)
es1371 27788 1
ac97_codec 15828 0 [es1371]
soundcore 6340 0 [es1371]
gameport 3268 0 [es1371]
ppp_async 9312 1
ppp_generc 24292 3 [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async]
slhc 6564 0 [ppp_generic]
af_packet 14856 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 19384 0 (autoclean)
floppy 55932 0
nls_iso8859- 3484 2 (autoclean)
nls_cp850 4284 2 (autoclean)
vfat 11820 2 (autoclean)
fat 38040 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
supermount 84032 3 (autoclean)
ide-cd 33956 0
cdrom 32608 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ide-scsi 11376 0
usb-uhci 25136 0 (unused)
usbcore 74988 1 [usb-uhci]
rtc 9004 0 (autoclean)
ext3 60048 2
jbd 39264 2 [ext3]
sd_mod 12188 0 (unused)
aic7xxx 162160 0
scsi_mod 93344 4 [sr_mod ide-scsi sd_mod aic7xxx]
I wish I could say I understand any of this, but unfortunately, that is
just not the case.
It appeared that other commands listed only offered the information
already contained in the sound configuration window, so I didn't bother
running any of them.
I did click on the help button and found that apparently alsa is a
newer, "more powerful" alternative to OSS. But does that mean I should
be using alsa in spite of the fact that OSS is apparently the default
for my sound card? Or did I misinterpret the information in the sound
configuration window? If alsa is what is needed, how do I start it?
Thanks again for all the help and *patience*!
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