See my answers to your questions below.
On Friday 10 August 2001 6:05, etharp wrote:
> Soory if we already went over this, I want to MAKE SURE that plug and pray
> aware OS is set to OFF in bios.
Plug and Play is OFF in the BIOS.
next is the slot that the card is in. is it
> the slot next to a pci card?
Yes, I believe it is in the "shared" slot with the PCI.
next, after turning off ALSA at boot, did you
> "open KDE Control Center=>Sound=>Sound Server and made the default the
> sound driver (neither ALSA nor autodetect) then logged out an rebooted".
This part confused me. I don't have "default sound driver" as an option
here. "Sound I/O Method" is currently set to autodetect. My only choices
are "autodetect", "Open sound system", and "No audio input/output". I have
no other choices.
> Might you have some servers or mail checking going on in the forground that
> may be using all the CPU resources for a few seconds? what version of
> Mandrake are you running?
I'm running Mandrake 8.0 with the 2.4.3-20mdk kernel. I've tried this
nothing running at all after a fresh boot.
I've been poking around some more. Only part of the soundcard is recognized.
The multimedia controller is all that is working. The other three parts
(game controller, midi, and something else) are "reserved" but not
operational. They're listed under the "unknown device class" in the KDE
System control center. The part that is shown as working has NO DRIVER
INSTALLED.
Thanks for all of your help.
>
> On Thursday 09 August 2001 23:24, Linus Drouhard wrote:
> > Disabling ASLA on boot had no effect...still no sound. MP3's won't run.
> > Any player I try just sits there. I push play it sits there. Something,
> > maybe unrelated to the sound system itself has got in the way?? CD's
> > play from the CD player ok. I'll keep playing with this, but if anyone
> > has any more good ideas....Thanks
> >
> > On Wednesday 08 August 2001 11:04, Linus Drouhard wrote:
> > > To see if I had Kmix, I went to the menus of installed programs. I
> > > also checked in the Package Manager, didn't find Kmix at all there. I
> > > don't know any other way (remember I'm a total newbie to Linux).
> > >
> > > I can get CD's to play, just not MP3's. I've not tried any other audio
> > > format.
> > > I'll try what you said, ALSA was checked to start, but not running.
> > > Right now I'm burning a CD and don't want to kill that to reboot.
> > >
> > > thanks for your help...now to why my printer has gotten really
> > > slow...for another post...
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 07 August 2001 5:31, etharp wrote:
> > > > let me get this straight, you ARE using Mandrake 8.0. you do not
> > > > think you have Kmix on your system. how did you check to see if kmix
> > > > was installed? do you have the available hard drive space to install
> > > > it? do not install more sound drivers (as far I rememrber, alsa and
> > > > OSS conflict, and you may already have some conflicting sound
> > > > problems). in fact, in this case, the answer may be as likely to
> > > > uninstall a sound service as to install one. this is a partial quote
> > > > from a report by someone whom knows ALOT more about this stuff than I
> > > > do.
> > > >
> > > > "Mandrake Control Center => System => Services and unchecked
> > > > "at boot" for alsa once I noticed that it was checked at boot and
> > > > wasn't running anyway. Then I opened KDE Control
> > > > Center=>Sound=>Sound Server and made the default the sound driver
> > > > (neither ALSA not autodetect) then logged out an rebooted. Sound was
> > > > afterwards fine."
> > > >
> > > > On Monday 06 August 2001 23:17, Linus Drouhard wrote:
> > > > > Ok, I made sure that PNP was turned off in BIOS (already was off).
> > > > >
> > > > > I tried to find Kmix, don't have it. I did get CD Player to work.
> > > > > But I cannot get XMMS to work. It still scrolls the MP3 title and
> > > > > sits there. It (xmms) freezes whenever I try to stop it. In fact,
> > > > > just about any of the sound applications freeze when I try to exit
> > > > > them. None (but CD Player) work. Could there be a setting
> > > > > somewhere that has been accidentally switched, effectively killing
> > > > > my card?
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm ready to try ALSA, but after spending several long nights with
> > > > > WINE (and then disappointed at the results) several more nights
> > > > > with SANE (didn't get that to work right and gave up, at least for
> > > > > now) and now ALSA, I want something to go easy. The mini-howto on
> > > > > ALSA is 29 pages and its for kernel 2.2, not the 2.4.3 that comes
> > > > > with Mandrake 8.0. I'm not sure I want to tackle that now. Please
> > > > > help a newbie in distress.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sunday 05 August 2001 5:21, etharp wrote:
> > > > > > run Kmix and make sure the levels are respectable to hear (half
> > > > > > way) and that in BIOS, plug and pray aware OS is set to OFF.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Sunday 05 August 2001 14:05, Linus Drouhard wrote:
> > > > > > > I have an old Soundblaster 16 that I cannot get to work. I ran
> > > > > > > sndconfig and it would play the sample sounds in the
> > > > > > > configuration routine. I think that the first test was the
> > > > > > > word "Hello" but I got a "Hel" sounded like it cutoff. The midi
> > > > > > > track played fine.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Anyway, I tried configuring it through Harddrake, couldn't fine
> > > > > > > isapnp.config, or something like that.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I tried using it anyway. CD-player spins away, but no sound.
> > > > > > > Running an MP3 through XMMS (and other MP3 players) doesn't
> > > > > > > work either. The title scrolls by, but the song won't play.
> > > > > > > If I slide the progress bar, I get snippets of sound, 1/2
> > > > > > > second or so long.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Any help would be appreciated in setting this "classic"
> > > > > > > soundcard up.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Linus
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > ASUS P5A
> > > > > > > AMD K6-II 400 @420
> > > > > > > 128 MB Ram
> > > > > > > Nvidia TNT2 M64 with 32MB
> > > > > > > Realtek NIC
