Which desktop are you running?? I've found that sounds not detected in KDE
work like a charm in Gnome. If that's the case, then you should be able to go
into Control Center (KDE) and set them up. Always recheck the basics when
having sound problems. Usually it'll be something so obvious or simple that
even a rocket scientist will overlook it. Are your speakers plugged into the
right connectors between each other and the PC? Is the power for the speakers
turned on? Volume turned up? Can you play a CD or MP3? Don't just turn off
Plug N Play O/S in your BIOS. Directly below it you should see something that
says "Reset Configuration" or something similar. Enable it so that your
motherboard can re-detect your IRQ's and sort them out a little better. Turn
off any IRQ consuming options that you aren't actually using. USB, Comm
ports, VGA or Video card IRQ's etc. If your sound card wants to use an IRQ
that something else is using, then that's probably the problem. Open up your
PC and take a close look at your Video Card. If it has a set of jumpers that
enable the use of an IRQ for the videocard, then adjusting your BIOS won't
help. Disable it in the Video Card first, then in the BIOS, then "Reset
Configuration Data" again. If ANY of these conditions are causing your
problem, they can also quickly solve it as well. But occasionally, even
fixing them may still mean doing a fresh install. While your at it, check
your existing install to see if "Alsa Player", and "alsa-utils" are
installed. They will probably be a big help. One more thing. Try unloading
all your sound modules from a console. Use "lsmod" to list them, and unload
any modules related to your sound card using "rmmod" and the name of the
module. Then run "sndconfig" while looged in as root. It's best to log out of
your desktop into a console, rather than opening a console while still in
your desktop environment. Hope this helps!
On Saturday 24 February 2001 22:24, you wrote:
> I found two threads in the archives similar to my problem -> I almost got
> some sound to work.
>
> The possibilities I have are VIA onboard sound which is detected in
> HardDrake, YMF724, also detected, and an old ISA stock Sound Blaster 16 not
> detected.
>
> The first two are detected by hard drake, but produce no output when
> running "configuration tool". I disabled onboard sound and put in SB16.
> Even tried allocating irq5/dma1/5 as legacy. I got the SB to produce
> marginal output using sndconfig and setting SB16 up manually. But no sound
> anywhere else. (if it helps, Win2k not 98 makes SB16 work, I can set it to
> any irq and snd still comes out) (I have no docs on SB16 jumpers)
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> I've found hints::
> 1. "Setting BIOS to non-PNP" already was
> 2. rmmod everything sound related, then run sndconfig (tried that, SB16 now
> gives me errors: Device or Resource busy, insmod, failed, insmod
> sound-slot-0 failed) Is this because I didn't "remove everything
> x-related"? I tried "ps-aux" then "kill" one thing, what all do I need to
> remove?
> 3. Recompile Kernel -this seems like awfully complicated process.. I
> don't think my kernel doesn't support sound as other people with 7.2 said
> sound worked after install.
>
> I think I'm close since I heard sndconfig play .wav and midi on sb16. How
> do then make OS use it? Is this because ALSA comes with 7.2 and doesn't
> have SB16 listed in harddrake?
>
> -linatic
>
> I found two threads in the archives similar to my problem -> I almost got
> some sound to work.
>
> The possibilities I have are VIA onboard sound which is detected in
> HardDrake, YMF724, also detected, and an old ISA stock Sound Blaster 16 not
> detected.
>
> The first two are detected by hard drake, but produce no output when
> running "configuration tool". I disabled onboard sound and put in SB16.
> Even tried allocating irq5/dma1/5 as legacy. I got the SB to produce
> marginal output using sndconfig and setting SB16 up manually. But no sound
> anywhere else. (if it helps, Win2k not 98 makes SB16 work, I can set it to
> any irq and snd still comes out) (I have no docs on SB16 jumpers)
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> I've found hints::
> 1. "Setting BIOS to non-PNP" already was
> 2. rmmod everything sound related, then run sndconfig (tried that, SB16 now
> gives me errors: Device or Resource busy, insmod, failed, insmod
> sound-slot-0 failed) Is this because I didn't "remove everything
> x-related"? I tried "ps-aux" then "kill" one thing, what all do I need to
> remove?
> 3. Recompile Kernel -this seems like awfully complicated process.. I
> don't think my kernel doesn't support sound as other people with 7.2 said
> sound worked after install.
>
> I think I'm close since I heard sndconfig play .wav and midi on sb16. How
> do then make OS use it? Is this because ALSA comes with 7.2 and doesn't
> have SB16 listed in harddrake?
>
> -linatic
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
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Dan LaBine
Maximum LAN's Ltd.
Registered Linux User #190712
