On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:54, etharp wrote:
> this might be beating a dead horse, but is the mixer set to a reasonable
> level? I have the same sound card, and while it appeared everything was
> getting setup, the vol. was so low that ! could not hear sound. I kept
> failing sndconfig since i could not here the sounds.
That was one of the first things I checked. The mixer levels are fine. The
problem is that sound works beautifully in everything except the
GNOME/Sawfish environment itself. By this I mean that Sawfish sounds (e.g.
when a window closes) and GNOME sounds (e.g. sounds associated to the panel)
do not work. Esound is running as always. If I run another app, like
Downloader for X, aviplay (part of avifile) or Xmovie, I can get sound as
usual. Some other apps, like XMMS, don't work in GNOME. Sound works perfectly
in KDE, including programmes that didn't work in GNOME like XMMS.
As I said before, this is the second time this has happened, both times
occurring after I configured my system with InteractiveBastille (version
1.2.0). I managed to fix things the first time with a Freq2 install. The
firewall component is not the cause, AFAIK. I checked the rules, and there is
nothing blocking ports locally. I then fully disabled the firewall, yet the
problem persists.
I am beginning to think I should just reinstall. I am loathe to do this: it
is such a WinDOS solution. I would also lose the extra security provided by
InteractiveBastille. I would rather see this problem fixed. That way when
somebody else has a similar problem we'll already know the answer. IMHO, this
looks like a nasty bug in Bastille that should be fixed, not forgotten about.
> On Monday 16 July 2001 22:19, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:00, civileme wrote:
> > > <BIG SNIP>
> > >
> > > > Here's my complete lsmod output:
> > > >
> > > > [root@YAMA Data]# lsmod
> > > > Module Size Used by
> > > > vmnet 14720 3
> > > > vmmon 16880 0 (unused)
> > > > sb 7136 0
> > > > sb_lib 33120 0 [sb]
> > > > uart401 6224 0 [sb_lib]
> > > > sound 54256 0 [sb_lib uart401]
> > > > soundcore 3504 5 [sb_lib sound]
> > > > af_packet 11280 1 (autoclean)
> > > > 8139too 11696 1 (autoclean)
> > > > nls_iso8859-1 2848 2 (autoclean)
> > > > nls_cp850 3584 2 (autoclean)
> > > > vfat 9040 2 (autoclean)
> > > > fat 30720 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
> > > > supermount 32496 6 (autoclean)
> > > > ide-scsi 7568 0
> > > > reiserfs 165760 1
> > > > sd_mod 11048 0 (unused)
> > > > scsi_mod 86036 2 [ide-scsi sd_mod]
> > > >
> > > > I see at least 5 entries related to sound -- is that normal? When I
> > > > type "service alsa status" I get "Sound loaded". The same output
> > > > occurs when I type "service sound status". In the services section of
> > > > Drakconf (the X version), I noticed that alsa is stopped but set to
> > > > load on boot, and sound is both running and configured to load on
> > > > startup.
> > > >
> > > > While in GNOME I can get sound in programmes like Downloader for X
> > > > (nt), xmovie and aviplay (part of avifile, an avi movie player). This
> > > > is without esound or arts loaded. XMMS refuses to work, though.]
> > >
> > > OK that sounds like the alsa drivers worked and then the oss drivers
> > > got loaded on top. The behavior with XMMS is typical of that.
> > >
> > > Try stopping alsa at boot (i. e. telling it not to start), and see what
> > > happens.
> >
> > I figured you would ask this (since I have read your other responses to
> > sound problems on the list), so as soon as I fired off my above message I
> > went to DrakConf and disabled the alsa service from loading at boot,
> > leaving sound as the only sound-related service that loads at boot. After
> > a reboot, there was no change :-(
> >
> > > And if that produces an improvement....
> > >
> > > chkconfig --del alsa
> > > and dhange etc/modules.conf to alias the sb driver from oss.
> > >
> > > Civileme
> > >
> > > And he backup plan is
> > >
> > > pnpdump > isapnp.conf
> > > sndconfig
> >
> > Sndconfig was the first thing I tried when the problem arose. Just in
> > case, I did the pnpdump and tried sndconfig again -- still no luck.
> > Here's the pnpdump output (i.e. the contents of isapnp.conf):
> >
> > # $Id: pnpdump_main.c,v 1.25 2001/01/06 20:45:58 fox Exp $
> > # Release isapnptools-1.24
> > #
> > # This is free software, see the sources for details.
> > # This software has NO WARRANTY, use at your OWN RISK
> > #
> > # For details of the output file format, see isapnp.conf(5)
> > #
> > # For latest information and FAQ on isapnp and pnpdump see:
> > # http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/
> > #
> > # Compiler flags: -DREALTIME -DHAVE_PROC -DENABLE_PCI
> > -DHAVE_SCHED_SETSCHEDULER -DHAVE_NANOSLEEP -DWANT_TO_VALIDATE
> > #
> > # Trying port address 0273
> > # Board 1 has serial identifier 8a 03 c3 2a 46 e4 00 8c 0e
> >
> > # (DEBUG)
> > (READPORT 0x0273)
> > (ISOLATE PRESERVE)
> > (IDENTIFY *)
> > (VERBOSITY 2)
> > (CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING
> >
> > # Card 1: (serial identifier 8a 03 c3 2a 46 e4 00 8c 0e)
> > # Vendor Id CTL00e4, Serial Number 63121990, checksum 0x8A.
> > # Version 1.0, Vendor version 1.0
> > # ANSI string -->Creative SB AWE64 PnP<--
> > # Vendor defined tag: 73 02 45 20
> > #
> > # Logical device id CTL0045
> > # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3a
> > # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3b
> > # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3d
> > # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3e
> > # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3f
> > #
> > # Edit the entries below to uncomment out the configuration required.
> > # Note that only the first value of any range is given, this may be
> > changed if required
> > # Don't forget to uncomment the activate (ACT Y) when happy
> >
> > (CONFIGURE CTL00e4/63121990 (LD 0
> > # ANSI string -->Audio<--
> >
> > # Multiple choice time, choose one only !
> >
> > # Start dependent functions: priority preferred
> > # IRQ 5.
> > # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default)
> > # (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
> > # First DMA channel 1.
> > # 8 bit DMA only
> > # Logical device is a bus master
> > # DMA may execute in count by byte mode
> > # DMA may not execute in count by word mode
> > # DMA channel speed in compatible mode
> > # (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
> > # Next DMA channel 5.
> > # 16 bit DMA only
> > # Logical device is not a bus master
> > # DMA may not execute in count by byte mode
> > # DMA may execute in count by word mode
> > # DMA channel speed in compatible mode
> > # (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5))
> > # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> > # Minimum IO base address 0x0220
> > # Maximum IO base address 0x0220
> > # IO base alignment 1 bytes
> > # Number of IO addresses required: 16
> > # (IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0220))
> > # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> > # Minimum IO base address 0x0330
> > # Maximum IO base address 0x0330
> > # IO base alignment 1 bytes
> > # Number of IO addresses required: 2
> > # (IO 1 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0330))
> > # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> > # Minimum IO base address 0x0388
> > # Maximum IO base address 0x0388
> > # IO base alignment 1 bytes
> > # Number of IO addresses required: 4
> > # (IO 2 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0388))
> >
> > # Start dependent functions: priority acceptable
> > # IRQ 5, 7, 9 or 10.
> > # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default)
> > # (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
> > # First DMA channel 0, 1 or 3.
> > # 8 bit DMA only
> > # Logical device is a bus master
> > # DMA may execute in count by byte mode
> > # DMA may not execute in count by word mode
> > # DMA channel speed in compatible mode
> > # (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 0))
> > # Next DMA channel 5, 6 or 7.
> > # 16 bit DMA only
> > # Logical device is a bus master
> > # DMA may not execute in count by byte mode
> > # DMA may execute in count by word mode
> > # DMA channel speed in compatible mode
> > # (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5))
> > # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> > # Minimum IO base address 0x0220
> > # Maximum IO base a
> >
> > > > I declined to mention before that I have a Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA
> > > > (non-PnP, AFAIK), which has given me no trouble whatsoever since I
> > > > started using Mandrake with version 7.0.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
