[newbie] Sound in a laptop
I just installed Mandrake 10.1 on top of 10.0 in my laptop. That's the only way I can get the multithread boot option. My problem is that I have no sound. For what I gather the problem is that /dev/dsp does not exist in my system. I have gone through the troubleshooter and the driver doesn't seem to be loaded. I will appreciate any advise. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound in a laptop
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:23:08 -0600, Teilhard wrote: I just installed Mandrake 10.1 on top of 10.0 in my laptop. That's the only way I can get the multithread boot option. My problem is that I have no sound. For what I gather the problem is that /dev/dsp does not exist in my system. I have gone through the troubleshooter and the driver doesn't seem to be loaded. I will appreciate any advise. Try running sndconfig. If that doesn't do the job, try alsaconf which is part of also-utils. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] sound problem in 10.1
I recently installed Mandrake 10.1 official on my IBM T23. Overall, I'm impressed. The install was better than any other version of Mandrake I've tried since 6.1, and the end result is fast and seems quite stable. I'll have to compile the Lucent drivers, but other than that, most of what I want seems to work pretty well. One problem I have hit is withh sound support. The sound drivers are loading, but sound under either Gnome or KDE is muted. I can get round the problem by opening aumix and (after initially setting the levels up and saving them) forcing a load. However, next time the laptop is booted, no sound until I go through the process again. Watching boot messages, I see an error coming from the mixed during boot - it is unable to locate /dev/mixer. Am I correct in assuming this is becuase udev has not created the correct device node at this point? I've tried adding aumix -L to rc.local, but it does not seem to be executed (well, if it is being executed it doesn't help) and I've also tried adding the same line to the Gnome session startup page (I use Gnome by default). This does work, but it affects the way Gnome loads. With the command in startup, the Gnome splash screen no longer clears and I suspect that not everything Gnome related is being loaded. I can click on the spash screen to get it to go away, but it seems that I either can't use the command were I've got it, or I need to alter the syntax. Has anyone else seen this sort of problem with sound startup, or is it peculiar to the T23? Also, can anyone suggest how I get rid of it completely? paul. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marwick Computer Services - Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, UK OS/2, LAN and general Computer Consultants Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] sound recording in Mandrake 10
What's a good Linux application to use for digitizing music from a cassette tape player connected to the microphone jack on a PC soundcard? I have a bunch of older cassette tapes that I'd like to burn to CD and/or copy to disk. PG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sound recording in Mandrake 10
On Thursday 06 January 2005 10:59 pm, Paul Greene wrote: What's a good Linux application to use for digitizing music from a cassette tape player connected to the microphone jack on a PC soundcard? I have a bunch of older cassette tapes that I'd like to burn to CD and/or copy to disk. Try Audacity -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sound recording in Mandrake 10
Paul Greene wrote: What's a good Linux application to use for digitizing music from a cassette tape player connected to the microphone jack on a PC soundcard? I have a bunch of older cassette tapes that I'd like to burn to CD and/or copy to disk. PG You will have beter luck using the line in jack instead of the microphone jack if you are connecting directly from a tape player. If the player has line out or RCA jacks, these work better then the headphone jacks. The speaker jacks are the last resort. If you have to use them, keep the output turned down below midrange. You will have to play with it a bit to see what works with your sound card. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sound recording in Mandrake 10
On Thursday 06 January 2005 07:59 pm, Paul Greene wrote: What's a good Linux application to use for digitizing music from a cassette tape player connected to the microphone jack on a PC soundcard? I have a bunch of older cassette tapes that I'd like to burn to CD and/or copy to disk. Audacity is cool PG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound on 10.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 Dec 2004 03:42, Chris wrote: On Monday 27 December 2004 03:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 27 Dec 2004 02:09, Chris wrote: Got it figured out, thanks to a year old msg from Derek that I found the archives. Chris, for the sake of others, please say what you did to solve it. Anne Sure Anne, here is Derek's input which I followed: To install the Alsa driver 1/ Install the alsa-utils, alsamixergui, and newt packages (If not already installed) 2/ Make a backup copy of /etc/modules.conf 3/ In a root terminal run alsaconf Alsaconf will write a new modules.conf file with the correct settings for your sound card. 4/ Copy back by hand those lines in the old modules.conf which are not sound related. 5/ Reboot into the new sound driver, and in KDEControlCentreSoundSoundSystem set the sound server to Alsa 6/ Use alsamixergui to select default sound levels and save them. 7/ In xmms it may work better if you select the Output Plugin to be alsa. If it does not work replace the alsaconf generated lines in modules.conf with the ones from your backup. I followed the above and automagically - sound. Thanks, Chris. That makes it available in the archives again. On a related topic, some time ago I reported the bug that makes it overwrite modules.conf, but MandrakeSoft have changed the bug reporting regime, and in doing so have closed bugs that have not been voted for recently. This is the message I got from them: http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/query.php?bug=1031 - --- 10312004-12-24 01:05:33.0 +0100 +++ 1031.tmp.Yme2mA 2004-12-24 01:05:33.0 +0100 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Bug# : 1031 Product: Mandrake Linux 10.0 Version: x86 - -Status : NEW +Status : CLOSED Priority : Normal Component : alsa-utils URL: @@ -23,3 +23,12 @@ This bug has been reassigned to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +Comment posted: 2004-12-24 01:05 AM by [EMAIL PROTECTED] + +If this report is still valid, please re-report it to Bugzilla: + +http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ + +Thank you. + + If you could report to Bugzilla that it is still valid it would be helpful. Once a bug report number is given to you, please post it here, so that others can confirm your report. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB0ohdkFAvMr/nNX8RAr8BAJ40aTugPesznUKcl22Wa1R81JxG4wCeKFC1 4x7V9FdAAQcno+YcJdqA8LM= =Ooso -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound on 10.1
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 04:35 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 29 Dec 2004 03:42, Chris wrote: On Monday 27 December 2004 03:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 27 Dec 2004 02:09, Chris wrote: Got it figured out, thanks to a year old msg from Derek that I found the archives. Chris, for the sake of others, please say what you did to solve it. Anne If you could report to Bugzilla that it is still valid it would be helpful. Once a bug report number is given to you, please post it here, so that others can confirm your report. Anne Tried several times to connect to http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com, but Mozilla just kept trying and the site never came up. I'll try again later today, unless I have the link wrong. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 13:08:20 up 20:27, 1 user, load average: 1.69, 0.87, 0.56 There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate. Live - From Virgin Radio UK Def Leppard - Armageddon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound on 10.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 Dec 2004 19:10, Chris wrote: On Wednesday 29 December 2004 04:35 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 29 Dec 2004 03:42, Chris wrote: On Monday 27 December 2004 03:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 27 Dec 2004 02:09, Chris wrote: Got it figured out, thanks to a year old msg from Derek that I found the archives. Chris, for the sake of others, please say what you did to solve it. Anne If you could report to Bugzilla that it is still valid it would be helpful. Once a bug report number is given to you, please post it here, so that others can confirm your report. Anne Tried several times to connect to http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com, but Mozilla just kept trying and the site never came up. I'll try again later today, unless I have the link wrong. No, look again at the message. It has to go to qa.mandrakesoft.com now. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB0yy4kFAvMr/nNX8RAhCtAJ4rp/J3ojZqQGlhH/IkKEv9cOzo8QCcDPEC kOxYoGLgzkcTwcUlOs7CVTY= =cXtp -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound on 10.1
On Monday 27 December 2004 03:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 27 Dec 2004 02:09, Chris wrote: Got it figured out, thanks to a year old msg from Derek that I found the archives. Chris, for the sake of others, please say what you did to solve it. Anne Sure Anne, here is Derek's input which I followed: To install the Alsa driver 1/ Install the alsa-utils, alsamixergui, and newt packages (If not already installed) 2/ Make a backup copy of /etc/modules.conf 3/ In a root terminal run alsaconf Alsaconf will write a new modules.conf file with the correct settings for your sound card. 4/ Copy back by hand those lines in the old modules.conf which are not sound related. 5/ Reboot into the new sound driver, and in KDEControlCentreSoundSoundSystem set the sound server to Alsa 6/ Use alsamixergui to select default sound levels and save them. 7/ In xmms it may work better if you select the Output Plugin to be alsa. If it does not work replace the alsaconf generated lines in modules.conf with the ones from your backup. I followed the above and automagically - sound. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 21:40:08 up 4:59, 1 user, load average: 0.67, 0.43, 0.39 Scientists will study your brain to learn more about your distant cousin, Man. Live - From Virgin Radio UK Chris Rea - The Road To Hell Pt2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound on 10.1
On Sunday 26 December 2004 02:02 pm, Chris wrote: I had sound for a few minutes this morning, now its gone. When going to MCCSystem Alsa is shown as stopped, when trying to restart I get this error: Doing alsactl to store mixer settings..OK Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 1.0.6): /dev/snd/controlC0:no (sound is being used by pid )) FAILED ALSA driver (version 1.0.6) is already running. I've had this problem before in 9.0 I think but can't remember how I corrected it. I looked through the archives but can't seem to find anyone with the same problem. FWIW, Totem has no sound either. I've already disabled system sounds in KDE control center. Thanks for any help Got it figured out, thanks to a year old msg from Derek that I found the archives. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 20:08:04 up 1:11, 2 users, load average: 0.29, 0.42, 0.34 And furthermore, my bowling average is unimpeachable!!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound on 10.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 Dec 2004 02:09, Chris wrote: Got it figured out, thanks to a year old msg from Derek that I found the archives. Chris, for the sake of others, please say what you did to solve it. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBz9FykFAvMr/nNX8RAkUaAJ476ZEgl+/1hazJwhscn1lQBbhW9wCeIQyg 4akRSQALfMtFaQsc6P/yG/g= =A7Ji -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound on 10.1
I had sound for a few minutes this morning, now its gone. When going to MCCSystem Alsa is shown as stopped, when trying to restart I get this error: Doing alsactl to store mixer settings..OK Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 1.0.6): /dev/snd/controlC0:no (sound is being used by pid )) FAILED ALSA driver (version 1.0.6) is already running. I've had this problem before in 9.0 I think but can't remember how I corrected it. I looked through the archives but can't seem to find anyone with the same problem. FWIW, Totem has no sound either. I've already disabled system sounds in KDE control center. Thanks for any help Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Driver Error
From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Driver Error Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:45:32 + -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 Dec 2004 19:32, care free wrote: Go here http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0292 for nForce 2 driver Could you please add that tidbit to the TWiki? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SoUnd Anne It's done, Anne. J.T. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Driver Error
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 21:43, care free wrote: From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's done, Anne. Thanks Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBxLyLkFAvMr/nNX8RAhHHAKCQgIgxwn7WUqIsEw50fZ959Dw0YQCeI0Dq bGPAiJd9DP2z6uE858OXiqc= =swu/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Sound Driver Error
From: Ayn Newin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Driver Error Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:22:31 -0500 I've just install Mandrake 10.1 and i've been receiving an error message saying there is a problem with my sound card/driver. I've seen this error message twice, once when trying to start KsCD application and once when starting linux. I've not been able to make the error reappear and have not seen it appear at any other time. From memory the error simply states there is a problem with my sound card/driver, and that the directory /dev/dsp cannot be found. I've tried creating this folder within /dev and it says access is denied. You cannot create the file /dev/dsp. It's device driver file which is soft linked to the file in /dev/sound/dsp. Also, when trying to start Audacity i am prompted with the error message: There was an error initializing the audio i/o layer. You will not be able to play or record audio. Error: Host error Obviously i cannot hear music CDs, or any sounds for that matter, and cannot begin to realize what the problem is. That's where you come in. For reference my sound card is described as nForce2 Audio Codec Interface in HardDrake, with the driver listed as snd-intel8x0. What driver do you use? alsa, arts, oss? You can go to www.alsa-project.org to check for possible solution. J.T. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Sound Driver Error
Go here http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0292 for nForce 2 driver J.T. From: Ayn Newin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Driver Error Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:22:31 -0500 I've just install Mandrake 10.1 and i've been receiving an error message saying there is a problem with my sound card/driver. I've seen this error message twice, once when trying to start KsCD application and once when starting linux. I've not been able to make the error reappear and have not seen it appear at any other time. From memory the error simply states there is a problem with my sound card/driver, and that the directory /dev/dsp cannot be found. I've tried creating this folder within /dev and it says access is denied. Also, when trying to start Audacity i am prompted with the error message: There was an error initializing the audio i/o layer. You will not be able to play or record audio. Error: Host error Obviously i cannot hear music CDs, or any sounds for that matter, and cannot begin to realize what the problem is. That's where you come in. For reference my sound card is described as nForce2 Audio Codec Interface in HardDrake, with the driver listed as snd-intel8x0. ~ Ayn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Driver Error
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 Dec 2004 19:32, care free wrote: Go here http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0292 for nForce 2 driver Could you please add that tidbit to the TWiki? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SoUnd Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBwzdckFAvMr/nNX8RAj2DAJ9z2ZW/EXCIAMCv+xZXTkgbfP0GygCfVXij xXg/OkZ4+WX7E5e/YnLENss= =Y9kT -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound Driver Error
I've just install Mandrake 10.1 and i've been receiving an error message saying there is a problem with my sound card/driver. I've seen this error message twice, once when trying to start KsCD application and once when starting linux. I've not been able to make the error reappear and have not seen it appear at any other time. >From memory the error simply states there is a problem with my sound card/driver, and that the directory /dev/dsp cannot be found. I've tried creating this folder within /dev and it says access is denied. Also, when trying to start Audacity i am prompted with the error message: There was an error initializing the audio i/o layer. You will not be able to play or record audio. Error: Host error Obviously i cannot hear music CDs, or any sounds for that matter, and cannot begin to realize what the problem is. That's where you come in. For reference my sound card is described as nForce2 Audio Codec Interface in HardDrake, with the driver listed as snd-intel8x0. ~ Ayn
Re: [newbie] Sound system compatibility
On Friday 10 December 2004 23:49, Simon Roberts wrote: Sorry to ask this, as it's probably in the HW compatiblity lists if I only knew what to look for. I would like to use a USB sound system on MDK 10.1. Are these systems built to a standard, such that any USB sound card will work, or does each have it's own proprietary driver protocols, such that none of them will work? The one I like the look of is made by Edirol, and can do 24 bit conversion at up to 48Khz, it also has some funky features that I'm not so worried about if they can't be made to work. Is this likely to be workable, or are USB sound systems to freaky to contemplate? Cheers, Simon http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ says: All USB devices that are standards compliant will work. If they do not please report to the mailing lists. http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-Roland_Edirol#matrix lists the Roland/Edirol devices. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound system compatibility
Many thanks Frans, this moved me forward a lot. I've got my hands on an Edirol UA-3FX, which--as Murphy would insist--isn't on the list! Given that pretty much all the Edirols seem to be listed as working, I'm hoping this might just be a newer device that hasn't been tried yet. So I plugged it in, but I don't know how to access it. I tried some of the sound players, hoping they'd have some option that would say hey, which of these sound devices do you want to use? but they just kept on playing out of the built-in sound system that's on the motherboard. Does anyone know where I should be looking for config info to tell the audio tools to look for this thing (assuming, of course, that it's acually doing it's thing). I looked for a USB howto on the ALSA site, but haven't found any mention of it (there is a USB/MIDI howto, but I'm not into MIDI, I want to record live sound) Thanks again -Original Message- On Friday 10 December 2004 23:49, Simon Roberts wrote: ... I would like to use a USB sound system on MDK 10.1. Are these systems built to a standard, such that any USB sound card will work, or does each have it's own proprietary driver protocols, such that none of them will work? ... http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ says: All USB devices that are standards compliant will work. If they do not please report to the mailing lists. http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-Roland_Edirol#matrix lists the Roland/Edirol devices. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound system compatibility
Sorry to ask this, as it's probably in the HW compatiblity lists if I only knew what to look for. I would like to use a USB sound system on MDK 10.1. Are these systems built to a standard, such that any USB sound card will work, or does each have it's own proprietary driver protocols, such that none of them will work? The one I like the look of is made by Edirol, and can do 24 bit conversion at up to 48Khz, it also has some funky features that I'm not so worried about if they can't be made to work. Is this likely to be workable, or are USB sound systems to freaky to contemplate? Cheers, Simon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound processing: Center removal
Can anyone tell me which (if any) of the many sound processing tools can do center removal under MDK? My daughter wants to sing Karaoke to some stuff, and I'd like to get the lyrics out. Cheers, Simon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound problem
Thank you for your reply, Carefree. Very much edited, my original posting said: From: Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a digital output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages: Unable to open the audio device. /dev/sound/dsp There is a /dev/sound/dsp and also a /dev/dsp (to which I have tried changing the setting in the error box). Starting it in a terminal, gives: inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000 Cannot open audio device /dev/sound/dsp: Invalid argument I have tried changing System-Configuration-KDE-Sound-sound System-Hardware to a custom sampling rate of 8000, but still the same error messages. I get this additional error message, titled Informational - artsmessage: Sound server informational message. Error while initializing the sound driver. can't get requested samplingrate (requested rate 8000, got rate 48000) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. On Wednesday 08 Dec 2004 04:01, care free wrote: What brand of soundcard do you have? It's an on-board AC'97 chip, which I think may be the problem. From what I have been able to find out, I don't think that the sampling rate can be changed. What version of MDK do you have on your box? It's 10.0. but I am going to upgrade to 10.1. Do you choose auto detect or other options? Yes, I chose auto detect. If I try any other settings, I lose sound completely. I get the same problem with two other Linux distros, that's why I think it is the sound chip. There are still the error messages if I select alsa, but again I lose all sound. However, alsa works and the errant program works, with my Libranet (Debian based) distro. I have been trying various distros on my spare hard drive to find out what happens with each of them. As I am going to upgrade my machine soon, I think that I will abandon this until I have changed. I'll see what happens then. Thanks for your help Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound problem
What brand of soundcard do you have?What version of MDK do you have on your box? I have so much sound problem and CD-ROM drive lockups with no CD in them for no reasons with 10.0. I've switched to 10.1 Community recently and it solves those problems. I'm going to upgrade my box to 10.1 official soom. My soundcard is a Creative Blaster64. Do you choose auto detect or other options? J.T. From: Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound problem Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 11:06:09 + care free wrote: First, do you have any analog sound at all? How many users do you have on your box? Issue ls -al in /dev/sound to see who owns the files in that directory. I had quite similar problems with mdk 10.0. After logging into the box, a user own those device files. However, those files are not released. So when the next person logs into the system, those files are still owned by the previous user, and the sound system does not work at all. I have to log in as root and issue chmod 666 * in /dev/sound/ so that other can read and write to those device files. I close the mixer and then restart it. There is sound again. /dev/dsp is a soft link to /dev/sound/dsp. JT From: Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound problem. Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 20:43:26 + This has probably been answered before, but I can't find it in the archives, on twiki or on Derek's site. I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a digital output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages: Unable to open the audio device. /dev/sound/dsp There is a /dev/sound/dsp and also a /dev/dsp (to which I have tried changing the setting in the error box). Starting it in a terminal, gives: inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000 Cannot open audio device /dev/sound/dsp: Invalid argument I have tried changing System-Configuration-KDE-Sound-sound System-Hardware to a custom sampling rate of 8000, but still the same error messages. Until I upgrade the computer, it is on-board sound, not a sound card. Any advice, please? Many thanks Keith Thanks for your help, carefree. I do have analogue sound - well I did until a few days ago when my CD drive packed up. A replacement is on the list. There is only me uses the computer. My wife isn't interested in using it. Sorry, but I have done as you suggested and there are still the same error messages. I have even tried running the program as root. No difference. However, on starting the computer now, I get this additional error message, titled Informational - artsmessage: Sound server informational message. Error while initializing the sound driver. can't get requested samplingrate (requested rate 8000, got rate 48000) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. Originally, ls -al showed that root owned everything in /dev/sound Any further advice, please? Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound problem
care free wrote: First, do you have any analog sound at all? How many users do you have on your box? Issue ls -al in /dev/sound to see who owns the files in that directory. I had quite similar problems with mdk 10.0. After logging into the box, a user own those device files. However, those files are not released. So when the next person logs into the system, those files are still owned by the previous user, and the sound system does not work at all. I have to log in as root and issue chmod 666 * in /dev/sound/ so that other can read and write to those device files. I close the mixer and then restart it. There is sound again. /dev/dsp is a soft link to /dev/sound/dsp. JT From: Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound problem. Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 20:43:26 + This has probably been answered before, but I can't find it in the archives, on twiki or on Derek's site. I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a digital output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages: Unable to open the audio device. /dev/sound/dsp There is a /dev/sound/dsp and also a /dev/dsp (to which I have tried changing the setting in the error box). Starting it in a terminal, gives: inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000 Cannot open audio device /dev/sound/dsp: Invalid argument I have tried changing System-Configuration-KDE-Sound-sound System-Hardware to a custom sampling rate of 8000, but still the same error messages. Until I upgrade the computer, it is on-board sound, not a sound card. Any advice, please? Many thanks Keith Thanks for your help, carefree. I do have analogue sound - well I did until a few days ago when my CD drive packed up. A replacement is on the list. There is only me uses the computer. My wife isn't interested in using it. Sorry, but I have done as you suggested and there are still the same error messages. I have even tried running the program as root. No difference. However, on starting the computer now, I get this additional error message, titled Informational - artsmessage: Sound server informational message. Error while initializing the sound driver. can't get requested samplingrate (requested rate 8000, got rate 48000) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. Originally, ls -al showed that root owned everything in /dev/sound Any further advice, please? Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound problem.
** An update. ** Keith Powell wrote: I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a digital output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages: Unable to open the audio device. /dev/sound/dsp There is a /dev/sound/dsp and also a /dev/dsp (to which I have tried changing the setting in the error box). Starting it in a terminal, gives: inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000 Cannot open audio device /dev/sound/dsp: Invalid argument I have tried changing System-Configuration-KDE-Sound-sound System-Hardware to a custom sampling rate of 8000, but still the same error messages. Until I upgrade the computer, it is on-board sound, not a sound card. I spent sometime trying various things, but always the error messages. So I installed the Libranet distro on a spare hard drive. It's a Debian based distro and I haven't used it for some time. Running to .deb version of the offending program, gave the same error messages. In the Libranet Control Centre, I installed and configured alsa. Tried the program again and it worked without error messages. Back to Mandrake and I installed everything to do with alsa that I could find. Changed the KDE-sound-system sound-hardware setting from auto to alsa and tried the program (it's a KDE program) again. Nothing! Just the same error messages. So I have the program running using alsa in one distro, but not running using alsa in another distro. Very odd. Incidentally, selecting custom setting of the sampling rate in the hardware section of KDE sound settings, kills the sound completely. There are no system sounds. That's as far as I have got. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound problem.
This has probably been answered before, but I can't find it in the archives, on twiki or on Derek's site. I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a digital output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages: Unable to open the audio device. /dev/sound/dsp There is a /dev/sound/dsp and also a /dev/dsp (to which I have tried changing the setting in the error box). Starting it in a terminal, gives: inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000 Cannot open audio device /dev/sound/dsp: Invalid argument I have tried changing System-Configuration-KDE-Sound-sound System-Hardware to a custom sampling rate of 8000, but still the same error messages. Until I upgrade the computer, it is on-board sound, not a sound card. Any advice, please? Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Sound problem.
First, do you have any analog sound at all? How many users do you have on your box? Issue ls -al in /dev/sound to see who owns the files in that directory. I had quite similar problems with mdk 10.0. After logging into the box, a user own those device files. However, those files are not released. So when the next person logs into the system, those files are still owned by the previous user, and the sound system does not work at all. I have to log in as root and issue chmod 666 * in /dev/sound/ so that other can read and write to those device files. I close the mixer and then restart it. There is sound again. /dev/dsp is a soft link to /dev/sound/dsp. JT From: Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound problem. Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 20:43:26 + This has probably been answered before, but I can't find it in the archives, on twiki or on Derek's site. I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a digital output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages: Unable to open the audio device. /dev/sound/dsp There is a /dev/sound/dsp and also a /dev/dsp (to which I have tried changing the setting in the error box). Starting it in a terminal, gives: inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000 Cannot open audio device /dev/sound/dsp: Invalid argument I have tried changing System-Configuration-KDE-Sound-sound System-Hardware to a custom sampling rate of 8000, but still the same error messages. Until I upgrade the computer, it is on-board sound, not a sound card. Any advice, please? Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] sound in mdk 9 vs sound in mdk 10
Hello all, I remember sending a post a while back about my sound not working on mdk 10 with the machine I had it installed all. Now it seems I am having the same problem but its slightly different. In the case of last time I was running mdk 10 on an old micron laptop and it didn't recognized my sound card until I rand the sndconf utility. In the case of this machine I am using at work I am running mdk 9 on an old micron desktop and it did recognize my sound card as a YMF-740C [ds-1L Audio Controller]. All seems fine until I try to play something on xmms. I can see the file playing but I don't hear any sound. I checked to make sure that the sound server was enabled, I made sure that the OS volume was up, and I made sure the the physical volume on the machine was up and I still don't hear anything. Can any one tell me of a utility that I can use to try and test sound wth different drivers or tell me how I can get these drivers to work? I did try re running sndconf but my system doesn't recognize that command (even as root) Thanks in advance guys! L
Re: [newbie] sound in mdk 9 vs sound in mdk 10
Uytkownik Lovell Mcilwain napisa: Hello all, I remember sending a post a while back about my sound not working on mdk 10 with the machine I had it installed all. Now it seems I am having the same problem but its slightly different. In the case of last time I was running mdk 10 on an old micron laptop and it didn't recognized my sound card until I rand the sndconf utility. In the case of this machine I am using at work I am running mdk 9 on an old micron desktop and it did recognize my sound card as a YMF-740C [ds-1L Audio Controller]. All seems fine until I try to play something on xmms. I can see the file playing but I don't hear any sound. I checked to make sure that the sound server was enabled, I made sure that the OS volume was up, and I made sure the the physical volume on the machine was up and I still don't hear anything. Can any one tell me of a utility that I can use to try and test sound wth different drivers or tell me how I can get these drivers to work? I did try re running sndconf but my system doesn't recognize that command (even as root) Thanks in advance guys! L Have you installed xmms-arts and set xmms to use arts as audio output plugin (of course after you made sure artsd is up)? Do other media programs (such as xine, totem, mplayer) work? Wojciech Podgrni smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [newbie] sound in mdk 9 vs sound in mdk 10
Have you installed ALSA related RPMs? You may find alsaconf and alsactl very useful in such a situation. HTH. Q.H. Wang Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound Level Settings Keeps Going Back to Mute
For some reason, Mdk10.1ce's audio level settings keep going back to mute everytime I log back into KDE. How do you make it remember your settings? Thanks, Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Level Settings Keeps Going Back to Mute
On Saturday 30 Oct 2004 22:34, Sevatio wrote: For some reason, Mdk10.1ce's audio level settings keep going back to mute everytime I log back into KDE. How do you make it remember your settings? Thanks, Sevatio I think the command is alsactl -save from a root console Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound DVD problems
On Friday 01 October 2004 05:50 pm, Andrew Konosky wrote: I can't seem to get my sound to work on my old computer. I did a fresh install of Mandrake 10.1 community, but the sound doesn't work. I had this same problem under Debian 3.1 on this same computer. The chip is just an onboard Creative PCI128 and uses the kernel module es1371. I was trying to play a DVD and didn't have any sound. The Mandrake hardware control center detects my sound card right, but trying to run kmix fails because it can't find alsa, and the Gnome volume control doesn't have any channels to adjust either! Alsa is installed configured to run in Init 3-5, so I don't know what the problem is there. I did a simple 'modprobe es1371' command from a root shell and the sound works fine now. I don't want to have to manually load the kernel sound module everytime I startup, so how do I fix the sound settings? Also, both Xine and Totem will not read my DVDs. Xine plays the first intro track (MGM Studio scene etc...) and then says the video is encrypted, and totem won't even play. MPlayer plays the DVD fine (with sound after the modprobe command), but I can't find an RPM for the gui version and I don't have time right now to compile the sourcecode. Where can I find the Xine DVD plugins and the gmplayer rpm packages? The urpmi says they can't be located. You need to put the es1371 in modules.conf I believe. But 10.1 seems to be a bit different so I am not sure what the alias line should be (alias sound es1371) , anyone on the list know where this stuff goes? As for the DVD problem install libdvdcss from the PLF web site or it is also on Mandrake Club RPMs web site. This is the DVDJohn decoder library and your xine should run then, maybe. HTH. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound DVD problems
I can't seem to get my sound to work on my old computer. I did a fresh install of Mandrake 10.1 community, but the sound doesn't work. I had this same problem under Debian 3.1 on this same computer. The chip is just an onboard Creative PCI128 and uses the kernel module es1371. I was trying to play a DVD and didn't have any sound. The Mandrake hardware control center detects my sound card right, but trying to run kmix fails because it can't find alsa, and the Gnome volume control doesn't have any channels to adjust either! Alsa is installed configured to run in Init 3-5, so I don't know what the problem is there. I did a simple 'modprobe es1371' command from a root shell and the sound works fine now. I don't want to have to manually load the kernel sound module everytime I startup, so how do I fix the sound settings? Also, both Xine and Totem will not read my DVDs. Xine plays the first intro track (MGM Studio scene etc...) and then says the video is encrypted, and totem won't even play. MPlayer plays the DVD fine (with sound after the modprobe command), but I can't find an RPM for the gui version and I don't have time right now to compile the sourcecode. Where can I find the Xine DVD plugins and the gmplayer rpm packages? The urpmi says they can't be located. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound card not working
On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 00:13, Aldous Huxley wrote: When I first installed 10.0, the alsa driver worked, but sounded like shit...very distorted, like a cheap stereo system with the volume too high. I tinkered with settings (stupidly) without tracking what I was doing in order to undo if problems occured (which did). Um...I'd like to have sound back without having to reinstall everything...suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. If you want the best quality sound drivers with the most features, I highly recommend you go to opensound.com and download the drivers for your sound card. OSS is superior to Alsa. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound card not working
Lyvim Xaphir disseminated the following: If you want the best quality sound drivers with the most features, I highly recommend you go to opensound.com and download the drivers for your sound card. OSS is superior to Alsa. Wha? All this time people have been telling me the opposite, 'OSS is old', 'ALSA is the future of sound on Linux' Lyvim, I'm also curious why you say OSS is superior to ALSA. From what I've been reading on the Linux-Audio-User list, OSS is rarely mentioned. It appears all the efforts to develop sound applications and utilities are using ALSA. And if I'm not mistaken, I've seen posts from you on the Linux-Audio-User list. You've intriqued me. Please explain your reasons. Stephen. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound card not working
When I first installed 10.0, the alsa driver worked, but sounded like shit...very distorted, like a cheap stereo system with the volume too high. I tinkered with settings (stupidly) without tracking what I was doing in order to undo if problems occured (which did). Um...I'd like to have sound back without having to reinstall everything...suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound card not working
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:13:35 -0700 (PDT) Aldous Huxley disseminated the following: When I first installed 10.0, the alsa driver worked, but sounded like shit...very distorted, like a cheap stereo system with the volume too high. I tinkered with settings (stupidly) without tracking what I was doing in order to undo if problems occured (which did). Um...I'd like to have sound back without having to reinstall everything...suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. 1st back up your /etc/modules.conf (in 10.0 I believe it's called something slightly different, at least if you are running the 2.6 kernel). Then run 'alsaconf' as root. Now, from your backup modules.conf, add back the lines deleted by running alsaconf, to do with your video, usb, etc. You may need to do a service sound restart, if the alsaconf utility doesn't do it for you (can't remember ATM). -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 00:48:57 up 38 days, 34 min, 4 users, load average: 0.27, 0.10, 0.21 +++ Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth. -- Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate in chemistry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] sound and SiS7012
Does anyone have a SiS7012 chipset? If so, have you succeeded in getting any sound on Mdk10? how? TIA Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] sound and SiS7012
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 08:39:33 +0200, M.Schild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a SiS7012 chipset? If so, have you succeeded in getting any sound on Mdk10? how? TIA Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com What all have you tired: alsaconf perhaps? Any error messages? Need more info to help. -- This is me with the words on the tip of my tongue and my eye through the scope down the barrel of a gun, remind me not to ever act this way again - Taking Back Sunday -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBqeVfHXjcMfoResRAkEAAKCJYsCJa72nJMEk8tS5IC75SOyIbgCfaH5N gXAle9QDujbcMcHVOEiS6UY= =oaCY -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sound and SiS7012
Hi Maryse, I have a laptop from AGN that's really a Clevo something, and it has a SiS7012 chipset. I'm using the snd-intel8x0 module, and I think that you have to enable ACPI to get sound to work. (You can do this when configuring lilo (Mandrake Control Center - Boot - Boot Loader) Now I haven't the faintest where I got this info from, but I do remember that sound didn't work straight out of the box, and I had to tinker a bit, and enabling ACPI was one of these things I remember doing. So much at first glance, I'll also do a bit of googling, and get back if I find some hard links on the topic. (I'll also need them again sooner or later) cheers Andras On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:39, M.Schild wrote: Does anyone have a SiS7012 chipset? If so, have you succeeded in getting any sound on Mdk10? how? TIA Maryse __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sound and SiS7012-works
Hi Maryse, I have a laptop from AGN that's really a Clevo something, and it has a SiS7012 chipset.  I'm using the snd-intel8x0 module, and I think that you have to enable ACPI to get sound to work. (You can do this when configuring lilo (Mandrake Control Center - Boot - Boot Loader) Now I haven't the faintest where I got this info from, but I do remember that sound didn't work straight out of the box, and I had to tinker a bit, and enabling ACPI was one of these things I remember doing. So much at first glance, I'll also do a bit of googling, and get back if I find some hard links on the topic. (I'll also need them again sooner or later) cheers Andras Well, I don´t know what I did but I disinstalled Alsa, reinstalled, rechecked everything and now it works! Don´t ask me why. Than you all Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound is missing from MDK 9.0
I guess my I borked my system subj just didn't cut it :( so I'll try with this one. The other night the system went to hell in a handbasket for some reason. Couldn't get anything to work right. I did an 'upgrade' from the MDK 9.0 cds and then reloaded my backed up KDE setup. However, now I have no sound and XMMS won't load. When booting I get Error while initializing the sound driver: Device: default can't be opened for playback (no such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. Output of lsmod is below: [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]# lsmod Module Size Used byTainted: P snd-pcm-oss36932 0 (unused) snd-pcm55808 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-timer 9964 0 [snd-pcm] snd-mixer-oss 9016 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd24804 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mixer-oss] via686a 8512 0 (unused) eeprom 3476 0 (unused) lm753232 0 (unused) i2c-proc7088 0 [via686a eeprom lm75] i2c-viapro 3920 0 (unused) agpgart31840 3 (autoclean) lp 6720 0 parport_pc 21672 1 parport23936 1 [lp parport_pc] sr_mod 15096 0 (autoclean) (unused) floppy 49340 0 (autoclean) via82cxxx_audio19036 0 uart401 6628 0 [via82cxxx_audio] sound 55732 0 [via82cxxx_audio uart401] es1371 26568 0 soundcore 3780 0 [snd via82cxxx_audio sound es1371] ac97_codec 9928 0 [via82cxxx_audio es1371] gameport1660 0 [es1371] af_packet 13000 1 (autoclean) ip_vs 74328 0 (autoclean) ipt_ttl 600 0 (autoclean) ipt_limit856 0 (autoclean) ipt_unclean 6616 0 (autoclean) ipt_TOS 984 0 ipt_REDIRECT 760 0 (unused) ipt_REJECT 2744 0 (unused) ip_conntrack_irc3056 0 (unused) ip_conntrack_ftp3952 0 (unused) i2c-isa 1224 0 (unused) i2c-core 15332 0 [via686a eeprom lm75 i2c-proc i2c-viapro i2c-isa] ipt_LOG 3384 0 (autoclean) ipt_state568 0 (autoclean) iptable_filter 1644 0 (autoclean) ipt_MASQUERADE 1272 0 (autoclean) iptable_nat15224 0 (autoclean) [ipt_REDIRECT ipt_MASQUERADE] ip_conntrack 18400 4 (autoclean) [ipt_REDIRECT ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp ipt_state ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat] iptable_mangle 2072 0 (autoclean) ip_tables 11672 14 [ipt_ttl ipt_limit ipt_unclean ipt_TOS ipt_REDIRECT ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG ipt_state iptable_filter ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat iptable_mangle] 8139too14472 1 (autoclean) mii 1152 0 (autoclean) [8139too] ide-cd 28712 0 cdrom 26848 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] ide-scsi8212 0 scsi_mod 90372 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi] NVdriver 1065920 10 usb-uhci 21676 0 (unused) usbcore58304 1 [usb-uhci] rtc 6560 0 (autoclean) ext3 74004 3 jbd38452 3 [ext3] Also, when trying to run xmms from the cli it shows: ** WARNING **: snd_mixer_attach: No such device Also, under system services, I've got Alsa set to start at boot, however, it shows it stopped. If I click 'start' it says Alsa driver isn't running. No kidding, I knew that. Any ideas anyone? It wouldn't be so bad but I miss my streaming audio from Virgin Radio, UK. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:53pm up 15 min, 2 users, load average: 0.18, 0.12, 0.10 You won't skid if you stay in a rut. -- Frank Hubbard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound is missing from MDK 9.0
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 18:08, Chris wrote: I guess my I borked my system subj just didn't cut it :( so I'll try with this one. The other night the system went to hell in a handbasket for some reason. Couldn't get anything to work right. I did an 'upgrade' from the MDK 9.0 cds and then reloaded my backed up KDE setup. However, now I have no sound and XMMS won't load. When booting I get Error while initializing the sound driver: Device: default can't be opened for playback (no such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. Output of lsmod is below: [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]# lsmod Module Size Used byTainted: P snd-pcm-oss36932 0 (unused) snd-pcm55808 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-timer 9964 0 [snd-pcm] snd-mixer-oss 9016 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd24804 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mixer-oss] via686a 8512 0 (unused) eeprom 3476 0 (unused) lm753232 0 (unused) i2c-proc7088 0 [via686a eeprom lm75] i2c-viapro 3920 0 (unused) agpgart31840 3 (autoclean) lp 6720 0 parport_pc 21672 1 parport23936 1 [lp parport_pc] sr_mod 15096 0 (autoclean) (unused) floppy 49340 0 (autoclean) via82cxxx_audio19036 0 uart401 6628 0 [via82cxxx_audio] sound 55732 0 [via82cxxx_audio uart401] es1371 26568 0 soundcore 3780 0 [snd via82cxxx_audio sound es1371] ac97_codec 9928 0 [via82cxxx_audio es1371] gameport1660 0 [es1371] af_packet 13000 1 (autoclean) ip_vs 74328 0 (autoclean) ipt_ttl 600 0 (autoclean) ipt_limit856 0 (autoclean) ipt_unclean 6616 0 (autoclean) ipt_TOS 984 0 ipt_REDIRECT 760 0 (unused) ipt_REJECT 2744 0 (unused) ip_conntrack_irc3056 0 (unused) ip_conntrack_ftp3952 0 (unused) i2c-isa 1224 0 (unused) i2c-core 15332 0 [via686a eeprom lm75 i2c-proc i2c-viapro i2c-isa] ipt_LOG 3384 0 (autoclean) ipt_state568 0 (autoclean) iptable_filter 1644 0 (autoclean) ipt_MASQUERADE 1272 0 (autoclean) iptable_nat15224 0 (autoclean) [ipt_REDIRECT ipt_MASQUERADE] ip_conntrack 18400 4 (autoclean) [ipt_REDIRECT ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp ipt_state ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat] iptable_mangle 2072 0 (autoclean) ip_tables 11672 14 [ipt_ttl ipt_limit ipt_unclean ipt_TOS ipt_REDIRECT ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG ipt_state iptable_filter ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat iptable_mangle] 8139too14472 1 (autoclean) mii 1152 0 (autoclean) [8139too] ide-cd 28712 0 cdrom 26848 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] ide-scsi8212 0 scsi_mod 90372 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi] NVdriver 1065920 10 usb-uhci 21676 0 (unused) usbcore58304 1 [usb-uhci] rtc 6560 0 (autoclean) ext3 74004 3 jbd38452 3 [ext3] Also, when trying to run xmms from the cli it shows: ** WARNING **: snd_mixer_attach: No such device Also, under system services, I've got Alsa set to start at boot, however, it shows it stopped. If I click 'start' it says Alsa driver isn't running. No kidding, I knew that. Any ideas anyone? It wouldn't be so bad but I miss my streaming audio from Virgin Radio, UK. No clue but if it helps: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# lsmod Module Size Used by sg 38044 0 st 38616 0 sr_mod 17028 0 sd_mod 16832 0 scsi_mod 114648 4 sg,st,sr_mod,sd_mod binfmt_misc 9960 1 autofs414656 2 lp 12200 0 parport_pc 32832 1 parport38952 2 lp,parport_pc snd-seq-oss31232 0 snd-seq-midi-event 7552 1 snd-seq-oss snd-seq51024 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss51812 0 snd-mixer-oss 17952 1 snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx24128 1 snd-pcm93156 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-via82xx snd-timer 24484 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-ac97-codec 58148 1 snd-via82xx gameport4480 1 snd-via82xx snd-page-alloc 11972 2 snd-via82xx,snd-pcm snd-mpu401-uart 7072 1 snd-via82xx snd-rawmidi23616 1 snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-device 8008 3
Re: [newbie] Sound is missing from MDK 9.0
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 08:04 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 04 August 2004 18:08, Chris wrote: I guess my I borked my system subj just didn't cut it :( so I'll try with this one. The other night the system went to hell in a handbasket for some reason. Couldn't get anything to work right. I did an 'upgrade' from the MDK 9.0 cds and then reloaded my backed up KDE setup. However, now I have no sound and XMMS won't load. When booting I get Thanks Hoyt, I figured it out. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:47pm up 2:07, 2 users, load average: 0.68, 0.71, 0.88 You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller. Live - From Virgin Radio UK Virgin Radio Classic Tracks - The original classic rock station Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster MP3+
On Sunday 25 July 2004 15:11, Eric Jackson wrote: Hi, I have a Sound Blaster MP3+ USB soundcard installed on my Windows laptop. It runs fine. I tried to unstall it on my linux box running 10.0 Official. Mandrake recognized it as an unknown audio device. It is supported by ALSA using the snd-usb-audio module. It should show up with 'cat /proc/asound/cards'. If it doesn't try Harddrake. Has any one gotten this soundcard to work under Mandrake? If so could you please tell me what you did to get it to work? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound Blaster MP3+
Hi, I have a Sound Blaster MP3+ USB soundcard installed on my Windows laptop. It runs fine. I tried to unstall it on my linux box running 10.0 Official. Mandrake recognized it as an unknown audio device. Has any one gotten this soundcard to work under Mandrake? If so could you please tell me what you did to get it to work? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound in mdk 10.0
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 00:19, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 05:51, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I just made the jump to 10.0 last weekend . All went very smoothly, but unfornunately I still have no sound. I was hoping that it would get it working with a fresh full install, but no.. (didn't work in 9.1 either). In Mandrake Control Center I see that 2 soundcards are detected: VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] Vendor: VIA Technologies Alternative drivers: via82cxxx_audio Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1106:3058:1106:4511 Location on the bus: 0:7:5 Description: VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] Module: snd-via82xx Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO CT5880 Vendor: Ensoniq Alternative drivers: snd-ens1371 Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1274:5880:1274:8001 Location on the bus: 0:b:0 Description: CT5880 Module: es1371 Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO I'm supposed to have a Sound blaster 4.1 digital (creative) installed. I hope somebody can give me some clues on how to get things started. Marco Is your sound built into the motherboard (as it does kinda show) or is your Soundblaster a peripheral? (a card stuck in a slot) - if you DO have a Soundblaster card stuck in a slot, you might want to go into your BIOS and disable the onboard sound...I've had 50/50 with onboard VIA sound drivers... stephen kuhn - proprietor Stephen, I do have a card stuck in a slot. I disabled the onboard sound. As a result I got a sound icon in the panel which wasn't there before, so I guess there is some sort of recognition (but still no sound). I tried to configure the sound system in: System - configuration - KDE - sound - sound system On the first tab I accepted the defaults. On the second I selected autodetect and checked Full duplex. When I hit the apply button I get the error: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. I really could use any good ideas. Thanks! Marco -- Registered Linux user #268279 -- * This message is composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * * Running Mandrake 10.0 * -- Tell me, Brother Baldrick, what exactly did God do to the Sodomites? I dunno, but I can't imagine it was worse than what they used to do to each other. - EB Baldrick, Blackadder's Christmas Carol Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound in mdk 10.0
On Thursday 15 July 2004 18:09, Marco Verheul wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 00:19, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 05:51, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I just made the jump to 10.0 last weekend . All went very smoothly, but unfornunately I still have no sound. I was hoping that it would get it working with a fresh full install, but no.. (didn't work in 9.1 either). In Mandrake Control Center I see that 2 soundcards are detected: VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] Vendor: VIA Technologies Alternative drivers: via82cxxx_audio Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1106:3058:1106:4511 Location on the bus: 0:7:5 Description: VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] Module: snd-via82xx Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO CT5880 Vendor: Ensoniq Alternative drivers: snd-ens1371 Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1274:5880:1274:8001 Location on the bus: 0:b:0 Description: CT5880 Module: es1371 Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO I'm supposed to have a Sound blaster 4.1 digital (creative) installed. I hope somebody can give me some clues on how to get things started. Marco Is your sound built into the motherboard (as it does kinda show) or is your Soundblaster a peripheral? (a card stuck in a slot) - if you DO have a Soundblaster card stuck in a slot, you might want to go into your BIOS and disable the onboard sound...I've had 50/50 with onboard VIA sound drivers... stephen kuhn - proprietor Stephen, I do have a card stuck in a slot. I disabled the onboard sound. As a result I got a sound icon in the panel which wasn't there before, so I guess there is some sort of recognition (but still no sound). I tried to configure the sound system in: System - configuration - KDE - sound - sound system On the first tab I accepted the defaults. On the second I selected autodetect and checked Full duplex. When I hit the apply button I get the error: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. I really could use any good ideas. Thanks! Marco I don't think a sounddriver is loaded. You can check with '/sbin/lsmod'. If no driver is loaded you should try to configure your card in MCC, I would first try the snd-ens1371 module. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound in mdk 10.0
Hi all, I just made the jump to 10.0 last weekend . All went very smoothly, but unfornunately I still have no sound. I was hoping that it would get it working with a fresh full install, but no.. (didn't work in 9.1 either). In Mandrake Control Center I see that 2 soundcards are detected: VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] Vendor: VIA Technologies Alternative drivers: via82cxxx_audio Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1106:3058:1106:4511 Location on the bus: 0:7:5 Description: VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] Module: snd-via82xx Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO CT5880 Vendor: Ensoniq Alternative drivers: snd-ens1371 Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1274:5880:1274:8001 Location on the bus: 0:b:0 Description: CT5880 Module: es1371 Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO I'm supposed to have a Sound blaster 4.1 digital (creative) installed. I hope somebody can give me some clues on how to get things started. Marco -- Registered Linux user #268279 -- * This message is composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * * Running Mandrake 10.0 * -- Tell me, Brother Baldrick, what exactly did God do to the Sodomites? I dunno, but I can't imagine it was worse than what they used to do to each other. - EB Baldrick, Blackadder's Christmas Carol Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound in mdk 10.0
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 05:51, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I just made the jump to 10.0 last weekend . All went very smoothly, but unfornunately I still have no sound. I was hoping that it would get it working with a fresh full install, but no.. (didn't work in 9.1 either). In Mandrake Control Center I see that 2 soundcards are detected: VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] Vendor: VIA Technologies Alternative drivers: via82cxxx_audio Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1106:3058:1106:4511 Location on the bus: 0:7:5 Description: VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] Module: snd-via82xx Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO CT5880 Vendor: Ensoniq Alternative drivers: snd-ens1371 Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1274:5880:1274:8001 Location on the bus: 0:b:0 Description: CT5880 Module: es1371 Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO I'm supposed to have a Sound blaster 4.1 digital (creative) installed. I hope somebody can give me some clues on how to get things started. Marco Is your sound built into the motherboard (as it does kinda show) or is your Soundblaster a peripheral? (a card stuck in a slot) - if you DO have a Soundblaster card stuck in a slot, you might want to go into your BIOS and disable the onboard sound...I've had 50/50 with onboard VIA sound drivers... stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Certified virus-free since we don't use Microsoft products New crypt. See /usr/news/crypt. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound quit.
This morning the sound wouldnt start. XMMS seems to be playing the time is running and the display under the time, although jerkey, is working. The following message shows up whenever I attempt to configure the sound server and on startup. Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device: default can't be opened for playback (Permission denied) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. Help it was working yesterday? -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound quit.
On Friday 25 June 2004 15:50, Hoyt Bailey wrote: This morning the sound wouldnt start. XMMS seems to be playing the time is running and the display under the time, although jerkey, is working. The following message shows up whenever I attempt to configure the sound server and on startup. Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device: default can't be opened for playback (Permission denied) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. Help it was working yesterday? Looks a permission problem, maybe check the permissions of /dev/sound/dsp. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound quit.
On Friday 25 June 2004 09:30, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Friday 25 June 2004 15:50, Hoyt Bailey wrote: This morning the sound wouldnt start. XMMS seems to be playing the time is running and the display under the time, although jerkey, is working. The following message shows up whenever I attempt to configure the sound server and on startup. Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device: default can't be opened for playback (Permission denied) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. Help it was working yesterday? Looks a permission problem, maybe check the permissions of /dev/sound/dsp. HTH, The only thing that happened was that I shut down at about 8PM and restarted this morning. And it was fine when I shutdown. crw--- 1 root audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 /dev/sound/dsp and I am a member of group audio -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound quit.
On Friday 25 June 2004 17:10, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 25 June 2004 09:30, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Friday 25 June 2004 15:50, Hoyt Bailey wrote: This morning the sound wouldnt start. XMMS seems to be playing the time is running and the display under the time, although jerkey, is working. The following message shows up whenever I attempt to configure the sound server and on startup. Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device: default can't be opened for playback (Permission denied) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. Help it was working yesterday? Looks a permission problem, maybe check the permissions of /dev/sound/dsp. HTH, The only thing that happened was that I shut down at about 8PM and restarted this morning. And it was fine when I shutdown. crw--- 1 root audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 /dev/sound/dsp and I am a member of group audio But access is only for owner, not group... Good luck! -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound quit.
On Friday 25 June 2004 11:05, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Friday 25 June 2004 17:10, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 25 June 2004 09:30, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Friday 25 June 2004 15:50, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Looks a permission problem, maybe check the permissions of /dev/sound/dsp. HTH, The only thing that happened was that I shut down at about 8PM and restarted this morning. And it was fine when I shutdown. crw--- 1 root audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 /dev/sound/dsp and I am a member of group audio But access is only for owner, not group... Good luck! -Frans Thanks that did it. However I cant explain the following. I did not change the owner. [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ ls -la /dev/sound/dsp crw--- 1 hoyt audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 /dev/sound/dsp [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# chmod 750 /dev/sound/dsp [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# ls -la /dev/sound/dsp crwxr-x--- 1 hoyt audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 /dev/sound/dsp [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] sound card error when booting
Hi, I get this error message in /var/log/boot.log. alsa: succeeded ericsoldpc alsa: succeeded ericsoldpc alsactl: alsact: load_state:1134: ericsoldpc alsactl: No soundcards found... ericsoldpc sound: Setting mixer settings failed As the computer is booting I get this message: Start Alsa version 1.0.2c trident doing alsact to restore mixer settings... can't open alsact - no soundcard found alsact save state:1061 can't open /root/tmp/asound.state_tmp:no such file or directory setting mixer setting: alsact load state 1134: no soundcard found When I tried to run Audacity, I got this error: There is an error initializing the audio i/o layer You will not be able to play or record audio error:host error Error while opening sound device. Please check the input device settings and the project sample rate. I assume the Audacity error is caused by the other error. Any ideas on how to straighten this out? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Sound issue
Margot wrote: Should one expect that the reported problems with sound of Mdk 10 will be repaired in further versions? Or is it something structural, not susceptible of being changed? Depends on the type of problem, and where you have reported it. If it is a genuine *bug* in the system, and it has been reported to Anthill (http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/login.php) then it should (eventually!) be fixed. If a bug has only been reported on the mailing lists, it is unlikely that it will be fixed - I don't think any Mandrakesoft staff monitor the list, so they won't know the problem exists. On the other hand, if the problem is with the user not fully understanding how the system works, the list is the best place to go for help - the staff can only fix the software, not the users! Margot, Thanks for your reply. I have just installed Mdk 10 and, regarding the sound, there is only a minor problem, which I shall describe in what follows. My e-mail program is Thunderbird and, with Mdk 10, the system bell does not ring when a new message arrives. I have already checked Thunderbird configuration and everything seems OK. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound issue
My e-mail program is Thunderbird and, with Mdk 10, the system bell does not ring when a new message arrives. I have already checked Thunderbird configuration and everything seems OK. I have meanwhile found the solution to my own problem: modprobe pcspkr solves the problem. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound issue
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 17:09, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am a quite happy user of mdk 9.2. I am planning to move to mdk 10 Official. However, sometime ago, I installed mdk 10 CE and I experienced problems with sound. Therefore, I would like to know whether the sound problems, typical of mdk 10 CE, are overcome. Thanks in advance! Paul I have a new install of 10.0 official w/updates . My sound is iffy. xmms dosent work niether does totem but real player works fine and some sound from events but then I always have sound problems, guess its because I dont understand the system very well. -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound issue
I have a new install of 10.0 official w/updates . My sound is iffy. xmms dosent work niether does totem but real player works fine and some sound from events but then I always have sound problems, guess its because I dont understand the system very well. Should one expect that the reported problems with sound of Mdk 10 will be repaired in further versions? Or is it something structural, not susceptible of being changed? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound issue
Paul Smith wrote: I have a new install of 10.0 official w/updates . My sound is iffy. xmms dosent work niether does totem but real player works fine and some sound from events but then I always have sound problems, guess its because I dont understand the system very well. Should one expect that the reported problems with sound of Mdk 10 will be repaired in further versions? Or is it something structural, not susceptible of being changed? Paul Depends on the type of problem, and where you have reported it. If it is a genuine *bug* in the system, and it has been reported to Anthill (http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/login.php) then it should (eventually!) be fixed. If a bug has only been reported on the mailing lists, it is unlikely that it will be fixed - I don't think any Mandrakesoft staff monitor the list, so they won't know the problem exists. On the other hand, if the problem is with the user not fully understanding how the system works, the list is the best place to go for help - the staff can only fix the software, not the users! Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound issue
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 05:12, Paul Smith wrote: I have a new install of 10.0 official w/updates . My sound is iffy. xmms dosent work niether does totem but real player works fine and some sound from events but then I always have sound problems, guess its because I dont understand the system very well. Should one expect that the reported problems with sound of Mdk 10 will be repaired in further versions? Or is it something structural, not susceptible of being changed? Paul I wish I knew but I have a lot of hope. -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 07:20, Teilhard Knight wrote: On Saturday 12 June 2004 13:43, Teilhard Knight wrote: big snip With 10.0 I have no sound and I haven't been able to make it work. another snip I think analog stereo sound from your card is just working. Could you try that (the simplest walkman headphones would do) ? This link may help with digital output: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DigitalOut Good luck, -Frans Thanks for the link. However, to test which audio devices I have, it instructs to use the command: cat /proc/asound/devices. I get: cat: /proc/asound/devices, no such file or directory. I have the directory proc, but not asound. Now, when installing Mandrake 10.0, there were some packages that couldn't be installed. About 10. Maybe my sound problems come from there, huh? Cordially, Teilhard. It seems the ALSA driver isn't loaded. What is the output of '/sbin/lsmod'? HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 10:04, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Tuesday 15 June 2004 07:20, Teilhard Knight wrote: On Saturday 12 June 2004 13:43, Teilhard Knight wrote: big snip With 10.0 I have no sound and I haven't been able to make it work. another snip I think analog stereo sound from your card is just working. Could you try that (the simplest walkman headphones would do) ? This link may help with digital output: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DigitalOut Good luck, -Frans Thanks for the link. However, to test which audio devices I have, it instructs to use the command: cat /proc/asound/devices. I get: cat: /proc/asound/devices, no such file or directory. I have the directory proc, but not asound. See attached not guaranteed but this is my file. -- Regards; Hoyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /proc/asound/devices 0: [0- 0]: ctl 17: [0- 1]: digital audio playback 25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture 1: : sequencer 33: : timer [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound issue
Dear All I am a quite happy user of mdk 9.2. I am planning to move to mdk 10 Official. However, sometime ago, I installed mdk 10 CE and I experienced problems with sound. Therefore, I would like to know whether the sound problems, typical of mdk 10 CE, are overcome. Thanks in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound issue
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 03:09 pm, Paul Smith wrote: | Dear All | | I am a quite happy user of mdk 9.2. I am planning to move to mdk 10 | Official. However, sometime ago, I installed mdk 10 CE and I experienced | problems with sound. Therefore, I would like to know whether the sound | problems, typical of mdk 10 CE, are overcome. | | Thanks in advance! | | Paul Judging by the posts of the past month, the answer is NO. Depending on what you have for hardware, sound may be problematic. I'm staying with 9.2 (and 9.1) until I can install with more confidence than I have now. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sound mixer for kde ISA card
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 15:29:12 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to set up an old puter with MDK 10 Official (d/l) and in KDE I want to add the sound mixer. Since this is an older machine it's kmix may work. I went through this recently for a friend who had one of those Mozart sound system cards. We were able to get the sound card configuration working fine using sndconfig (after selecting some Compaq configuration, for some reason) and I think we tried kmix. Todd -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Thursday 10 June 2004 08:18 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: | Teilhard Knight wrote: | snip | | | | Indeed. Although most of the things you say are new to me, I can appreciate | command-line Linux is a much more powerful OS than DOS ever was. To be | honest, I feel impatient for seeing the end of the Micro$soft empire and | its blue-screen world. Maybe that's why I would like to see in Linux only | improvements over $ill Gates toys and a friendly environment. However, the | more I learn about Linux, the less I picture it like an OS for a secretary, | for example. I agree with someone who said that $ill Gates has a stronghold | in his Control Panel. But that doesn't mean I cannot appreciate the | advantages of Linux over Windows, and the speed it is evolving. | | Cordially, | | Teilhard | | - Once you get it setup (and quite often--depending on hardware--it is setup right on install) anyone can use it, and use it well. My wife's computer was converted to Linux a couple of years ago and she has no trouble with it whatsover, across a couple of upgrades from 8.2 to 9.1, which she is using now. As she told a friend a few months ago, Linux is easy to use--it must be if I can do it. As for myself, I was a network administrator back in the NT 4 days--what Linux has now is far simpler than NT was then. I can't say about W2K or XP administration, but I think just keeping up with the updates for security vulnerabilities appears to be far more trouble than I want to go to. Contrary to appearances, the famous Windows ease-of-use is really a facade because the administration of the system is a nightmare. I learned back in my day that I couldn't just install a security fix because there was a chance, a very good chance, that the fix would break some essential application. From what I see on the newsgroups, it doesn't appear that this Windows feature has changed much over the years. I have always had problems with networks in windows. I am far from being a network administrator, but I have had some such at home from my ISPs who rarely fix something for me in that area. I am using Mandrake 10,0 in one of my machines, but in others I have installed previous versions. The first time I installed the distro, I got delighted everything was working. With 10.0 I have no sound and I haven't been able to make it work. It is here where I find Windows more friendly to what one can do to fix the problem. But, as you say, past the configuration, Linux is a very friendly OS. Maybe I feel a bit lost because I am a newbie. For example, it is essential to me the support of this list and I do not belong to any Microsoft mailing lists. All in all much have been said about Linux Vs Windows, and I have read all sort of things, including people who try Linux and reject it like the pest going back to their Windows. Cordially. Teilhard. - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Saturday 12 June 2004 04:43 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: | On Thursday 10 June 2004 08:18 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: | | I have always had problems with networks in windows. I am far from being a | network administrator, but I have had some such at home from my ISPs who | rarely fix something for me in that area. I am using Mandrake 10,0 in one | of my machines, but in others I have installed previous versions. The first | time I installed the distro, I got delighted everything was working. With | 10.0 I have no sound and I haven't been able to make it work. It is here | where I find Windows more friendly to what one can do to fix the problem. | But, as you say, past the configuration, Linux is a very friendly OS. Maybe | I feel a bit lost because I am a newbie. For example, it is essential to me | the support of this list and I do not belong to any Microsoft mailing | lists. | I'm actually with you on this. Although Mandrake tools are the best (I've used Redhat, SuSe, Deb, and even Caldera, way back when), Mandrake is really a cutting edge distro. The upside is it has the latest developments, the downside is that some things don't work on all hardware. This has been ongoing with Mandrake from the 7.x series. I won't install any new version until at least several months after release because of these problems, and from what I read, I won't be installing mdk 10.0. It seems to work on most people's hardware, but a small percentage have serious problems with their sound. Now, this may be fixable (something simple like changing from your card's arts driver to the alternative OSS driver, for example), or it may be a systemic problem with the distro. If past releases are any indication, most of these problems will be worked out by the 10.1 version, and the 10.2 version will be excellent. But, for now, 9.2 and 9.1 work exactly the way that I want them to, and I can't see a single reason to upgrade. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] sound mixer for kde ISA card
I'm trying to set up an old puter with MDK 10 Official (d/l) and in KDE I want to add the sound mixer. Since this is an older machine it's got an ISA soundblaster card; it works, but I can't find a mixer to use with it that I can access from, say, the KDE panel. I installed aumix but running it does nothing. What am I missing? Thanks, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Saturday 12 June 2004 13:43, Teilhard Knight wrote: big snip With 10.0 I have no sound and I haven't been able to make it work. another snip I think analog stereo sound from your card is just working. Could you try that (the simplest walkman headphones would do) ? This link may help with digital output: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DigitalOut Good luck, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Thursday 10 June 2004 08:18 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: | Teilhard Knight wrote: | snip | | | | Indeed. Although most of the things you say are new to me, I can appreciate | command-line Linux is a much more powerful OS than DOS ever was. To be | honest, I feel impatient for seeing the end of the Micro$soft empire and | its blue-screen world. Maybe that's why I would like to see in Linux only | improvements over $ill Gates toys and a friendly environment. However, the | more I learn about Linux, the less I picture it like an OS for a secretary, | for example. I agree with someone who said that $ill Gates has a stronghold | in his Control Panel. But that doesn't mean I cannot appreciate the | advantages of Linux over Windows, and the speed it is evolving. | | Cordially, | | Teilhard | | - Once you get it setup (and quite often--depending on hardware--it is setup right on install) anyone can use it, and use it well. My wife's computer was converted to Linux a couple of years ago and she has no trouble with it whatsover, across a couple of upgrades from 8.2 to 9.1, which she is using now. As she told a friend a few months ago, Linux is easy to use--it must be if I can do it. As for myself, I was a network administrator back in the NT 4 days--what Linux has now is far simpler than NT was then. I can't say about W2K or XP administration, but I think just keeping up with the updates for security vulnerabilities appears to be far more trouble than I want to go to. Contrary to appearances, the famous Windows ease-of-use is really a facade because the administration of the system is a nightmare. I learned back in my day that I couldn't just install a security fix because there was a chance, a very good chance, that the fix would break some essential application. From what I see on the newsgroups, it doesn't appear that this Windows feature has changed much over the years. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Thursday 10 June 2004 11:45 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Thursday 10 June 2004 08:18 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: | Teilhard Knight wrote: | snip | | Indeed. Although most of the things you say are new to me, I can | appreciate command-line Linux is a much more powerful OS than DOS ever | was. To be honest, I feel impatient for seeing the end of the Micro$soft | empire and its blue-screen world. Maybe that's why I would like to see in | Linux only improvements over $ill Gates toys and a friendly environment. | However, the more I learn about Linux, the less I picture it like an OS | for a secretary, for example. I agree with someone who said that $ill | Gates has a stronghold in his Control Panel. But that doesn't mean I | cannot appreciate the advantages of Linux over Windows, and the speed it | is evolving. | | Cordially, | | Teilhard | | - Once you get it setup (and quite often--depending on hardware--it is setup right on install) anyone can use it, and use it well. My wife's computer was converted to Linux a couple of years ago and she has no trouble with it whatsover, across a couple of upgrades from 8.2 to 9.1, which she is using now. As she told a friend a few months ago, Linux is easy to use--it must be if I can do it. As for myself, I was a network administrator back in the NT 4 days--what Linux has now is far simpler than NT was then. I can't say about W2K or XP administration, but I think just keeping up with the updates for security vulnerabilities appears to be far more trouble than I want to go to. Contrary to appearances, the famous Windows ease-of-use is really a facade because the administration of the system is a nightmare. I learned back in my day that I couldn't just install a security fix because there was a chance, a very good chance, that the fix would break some essential application. From what I see on the newsgroups, it doesn't appear that this Windows feature has changed much over the years. Think of two cars one is a old junker with a lot of chrome and the hood welded shut thats Windows the other car is a lite weight tank that is easy to modify gets a hundred miles to the gallon and hardly ever breaks down (to paraphrase Neil Stephenson ) e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
Teilhard Knight wrote: snip Thanks a lot. I think I know now how the Linux world works. It is such a surprise for me to realise I have to know by memory about hundreds of programs in order to make them work. For someone from the Windows world it is kind of disappointing. But perhaps there are ways I do not know about to check which installed programs there are, huh? Cordially, Teilhard For most of the GUI tools, you can pick them from the menus. (Not all programs are in the menu's yet, but it is getting better.) For command line tools, it is sort of like dropping to the DOS prompt, except that you have tools to help you that you don't have in DOS. Things like typing part of a command, directory name, or file name, hitting Tab, and haveing the system complete it, or offer you options on completing it. You can also scroll through the command you have entered using the up and down arrows. You can edit the commands you bring up this way, and run them again. (A great help when you type like I do!) With most commands, you can get help by putting --help or -h after the command. You can also type man command name to get help with the commands. There is indeed a lot to learn if you want to take full advantage of the power of Linux, but you usualy don't need the command line tools to get things done. (I like them, and sometimes have to check on what the GUI tool is...) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:33:38 -0400 Teilhard Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...} | But perhaps there are |ways I do not know about to check which|installed programs there |are, huh?| |Cordially, | |Teilhard [...] Hi Teilhard, I started using linux over 9 months ago and someone suggested this.. Greg Meyer maybe ? IIRC any way .. you can go to Mandrake Control Center [mcc] -- then to Software management -- Remove and .. with no intention of removing any packages 8) .. just click on any of the installed programs for their information .. make suremaximum information is checked, so you can take a look at the list offiles that are installed from a package. :: or the longer way :: in a terminal you can type: $ rpm -qa | sort ~/rpmlist-`date +%d%m%y_%I%M`.txt will create a file like this with the current date at the current time: rpmlist-100604_0904.txt which is a sorted list of all rpm packages installed that you can read in any text editor 8) and save for later. and for any package name you can get the information of by typing: $ rpm -qi packagename or for the list of files a package will install: $ rpm -ql packagename also .. $ man rpm in a terminal or in konqueror type man:rpm for more info check out www.urpmi.org for info on urpmi HTH RickS +--+ MandrakeLinux 10.0 official - 2.6.3-13mdk-i686-up-4GB gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 +--+ There's only one everything. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAyQmsJo/ckCSqvmERAmcnAKC2/diorRSRgN+Vt+zTlvtMH0wjoACcDjBw S7KT1E4tZqKlv8CQU7xKh3U= =NLjM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 00:26:00 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Done, I downloaded and installed drakxtools-newt. My problem now is: where are the tools the package gives? I know there are thousands of Well, in this case, it should have deposited 'draksound' and some other files on your system. su to root, type 'draksound ' in a console, and you should then be able to set your card up. Thanks. I haven't been able to change driver. For some reason that perhaps will be obvious to you, alsa has to get shut down and the program fails to do it. I get this when trying to change driver: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gcovar]# Doing alsactl to store mixer settings... [ OK ] Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 1.0.2c): no. (sound is being used by pid 3647 )) [FAILED] ERROR: Module snd-emu10k1 is in use by snd-emu10k1-synth Loading mixer settings [ OK ] Your feedback will be appreciated. Cordially Teilhard - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
Teilhard Knight wrote: snip Thanks a lot. I think I know now how the Linux world works. It is such a surprise for me to realise I have to know by memory about hundreds of programs in order to make them work. For someone from the Windows world it is kind of disappointing. But perhaps there are ways I do not know about to check which installed programs there are, huh? Cordially, Teilhard For most of the GUI tools, you can pick them from the menus. (Not all programs are in the menu's yet, but it is getting better.) For command line tools, it is sort of like dropping to the DOS prompt, except that you have tools to help you that you don't have in DOS. Things like typing part of a command, directory name, or file name, hitting Tab, and haveing the system complete it, or offer you options on completing it. You can also scroll through the command you have entered using the up and down arrows. You can edit the commands you bring up this way, and run them again. (A great help when you type like I do!) With most commands, you can get help by putting --help or -h after the command. You can also type man command name to get help with the commands. There is indeed a lot to learn if you want to take full advantage of the power of Linux, but you usualy don't need the command line tools to get things done. (I like them, and sometimes have to check on what the GUI tool is...) Mikkel Indeed. Although most of the things you say are new to me, I can appreciate command-line Linux is a much more powerful OS than DOS ever was. To be honest, I feel impatient for seeing the end of the Micro$soft empire and its blue-screen world. Maybe that's why I would like to see in Linux only improvements over $ill Gates toys and a friendly environment. However, the more I learn about Linux, the less I picture it like an OS for a secretary, for example. I agree with someone who said that $ill Gates has a stronghold in his Control Panel. But that doesn't mean I cannot appreciate the advantages of Linux over Windows, and the speed it is evolving. Cordially, Teilhard - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:33:38 -0400 Teilhard Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...} | But perhaps there are |ways I do not know about to check which|installed programs there |are, huh?| |Cordially, | |Teilhard [...] Hi Teilhard, I started using linux over 9 months ago and someone suggested this.. Greg Meyer maybe ? IIRC any way .. you can go to Mandrake Control Center [mcc] -- then to Software management -- Remove and .. with no intention of removing any packages 8) .. just click on any of the installed programs for their information .. make suremaximum information is checked, so you can take a look at the list offiles that are installed from a package. :: or the longer way :: in a terminal you can type: $ rpm -qa | sort ~/rpmlist-`date +%d%m%y_%I%M`.txt will create a file like this with the current date at the current time: rpmlist-100604_0904.txt which is a sorted list of all rpm packages installed that you can read in any text editor 8) and save for later. and for any package name you can get the information of by typing: $ rpm -qi packagename or for the list of files a package will install: $ rpm -ql packagename also .. $ man rpm in a terminal or in konqueror type man:rpm for more info check out www.urpmi.org for info on urpmi HTH RickS What you tell me is great. I started thinking in Linux as a black box. I hope in 9 months from now, I'll be able to get familiar with the OS like you. I do not have much time to spend learning it, so, I wouldn't be so sure. Thanks so much for your feedback. Teilhard - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 00:26:00 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Done, I downloaded and installed drakxtools-newt. My problem now is: where are the tools the package gives? I know there are thousands of Well, in this case, it should have deposited 'draksound' and some other files on your system. su to root, type 'draksound ' in a console, and you should then be able to set your card up. Teilhard -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Sunday 06 June 2004 00:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Thanks a lot. Actually I played a bit with that. However, I got a Home Theatre, and one of the lights of the amplifier blinks whenever the sound card is not active. In that way I know that it is not just a matter of not enough volume and such. Thanks for the feedback. Is your amplifier connected to the soundcard with a digital S/PDIF cable (optical or coaxial)? HTH, -Frans I do not really know, but I would say it's coaxial, otherwise I would have Cambridge (the make of the Home Theatre) boasting of optical connections in the manual, etc. Teilhard. You said earlier: My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. Here is a link: http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?prodid=572 . It says: - Take advantage of the digital connection to Cambridge SoundWorks DeskTop Theater™ 5.1 DTT3500 Digital speakers and the analog connection to Dolby Digital-ready home theater systems - You should be able to see whether your cards digital or analog output is used by consulting the cards manual and checking to which connector the cable to the amplifier is connected. I think you use the digital output and the blinking light on the amplifier means it's not getting a (recognised) signal. In alsamixer digital input and output is labeled IEC958. HTH, -Frans Thanks. I know I am using digital output, so, maybe I just need to set IEC958 in alsamixer in order to make the system work. However, I have searched everywhere for alsamixer, and I do not find it. Just today I installed drakxtools-newt, and I do not see how to unearth the applications it gives. If you would be so kind enough so as to reply, please tell me how can I have access to the different programs and applications in KDE besides the ones in the main menu. Cordially, Teilhard. Teilhard - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:50:31 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Little problem is, I haven't got the slightest idea where to find draksound. Also, I do not compute mcc. However I will keep searching. I didn't draksound is part of drakxtools-newt rpm. mcc is part of drakconf. urpmf 'program' is very nice, it will tell you what rpm has the file, and you don't necessarily even have to have the file present on the drive. find anything for sound in the Mandrake Control Centre. You'd think it would be there, but it's configured separately through draksound. Done, I downloaded and installed drakxtools-newt. My problem now is: where are the tools the package gives? I know there are thousands of applications in Mandrake, but I do not know how to access them. I'd appreciate if you would help me in this regard. Cordially Teilhard - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Sunday 06 June 2004 00:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Thanks a lot. Actually I played a bit with that. However, I got a Home Theatre, and one of the lights of the amplifier blinks whenever the sound card is not active. In that way I know that it is not just a matter of not enough volume and such. Thanks for the feedback. Is your amplifier connected to the soundcard with a digital S/PDIF cable (optical or coaxial)? HTH, -Frans I do not really know, but I would say it's coaxial, otherwise I would have Cambridge (the make of the Home Theatre) boasting of optical connections in the manual, etc. Teilhard. You said earlier: My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. Here is a link: http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?prodid=572 . It says: - Take advantage of the digital connection to Cambridge SoundWorks DeskTop Theater 5.1 DTT3500 Digital speakers and the analog connection to Dolby Digital-ready home theater systems - You should be able to see whether your cards digital or analog output is used by consulting the cards manual and checking to which connector the cable to the amplifier is connected. I think you use the digital output and the blinking light on the amplifier means it's not getting a (recognised) signal. In alsamixer digital input and output is labeled IEC958. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound
Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just on first boot, but not this time. I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this problem. My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. Your help will be appreciated. Teilhard - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just on first boot, but not this time. I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this problem. My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. Your help will be appreciated. Teilhard The first thing i would check is all the various volume control apps you have, I have found the same problem myself and just checking the different mixers and volume contol apps fixed the problem. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sat Jun 5 12:10:49 EDT 2004 12:10:49 up 1 day, 17:13, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. -- Tennessee Williams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
Dan Gordon wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just on first boot, but not this time. I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this problem. My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. Your help will be appreciated. Teilhard The first thing i would check is all the various volume control apps you have, I have found the same problem myself and just checking the different mixers and volume contol apps fixed the problem. Regards, Dan Gordon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Also check under services that alsa is running and under harddrake that you have choosen the right driver. -- Marek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: [Newbie] Sound
On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just on first boot, but not this time. I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this problem. My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. Your help will be appreciated. Teilhard The first thing i would check is all the various volume control apps you have, I have found the same problem myself and just checking the different mixers and volume contol apps fixed the problem. Regards, Dan Gordon Thanks a lot. Actually I played a bit with that. However, I got a Home Theatre, and one of the lights of the amplifier blinks whenever the sound card is not active. In that way I know that it is not just a matter of not enough volume and such. Thanks for the feedback. Teilhard - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
Dan Gordon wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just on first boot, but not this time. I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this problem. My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. Your help will be appreciated. Teilhard The first thing i would check is all the various volume control apps you have, I have found the same problem myself and just checking the different mixers and volume contol apps fixed the problem. Regards, Dan Gordon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Also check under services that alsa is running and under harddrake that you have choosen the right driver. -- Marek Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is: snd-emu10k1. It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How can I check what's the right driver for me? Thanks for the feedback. Teilhard. - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is: snd-emu10k1. It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How can I check what's the right driver for me? Thanks for the feedback. Teilhard. They should actually both work try the alternate one. -- Marek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: [Newbie] Sound
On Saturday 05 June 2004 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just on first boot, but not this time. I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this problem. My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. Your help will be appreciated. Teilhard The first thing i would check is all the various volume control apps you have, I have found the same problem myself and just checking the different mixers and volume contol apps fixed the problem. Regards, Dan Gordon Thanks a lot. Actually I played a bit with that. However, I got a Home Theatre, and one of the lights of the amplifier blinks whenever the sound card is not active. In that way I know that it is not just a matter of not enough volume and such. Thanks for the feedback. Is your amplifier connected to the soundcard with a digital S/PDIF cable (optical or coaxial)? HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 13:14:15 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is: snd-emu10k1. It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How I would think that emu10k1 is the proper one. In my experience, 90% of the time, it picked up audigy instead, which resulted in no sound. This means an adjusment (or several) in mcc and/or draksound to get it to use the right driver. Secondly, if you use kmix as I do, and have 10.0 Community, be aware that the volume slider isn't where you'd expect it to be. This threw me at first. You may need to bump up the 3D slider raher the master or pcm sliders. Also, I've had better luck having sound work (on boot!) with Thomas Backlund's kernels, available at http://www.iki.fi or installable via your contrib sources. Teilhard. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is: snd-emu10k1. It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How can I check what's the right driver for me? Thanks for the feedback. Teilhard. They should actually both work try the alternate one. -- Marek Thanks, I will. Teilhard. - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 13:14:15 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is: snd-emu10k1. It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How I would think that emu10k1 is the proper one. In my experience, 90% of the time, it picked up audigy instead, which resulted in no sound. This means an adjusment (or several) in mcc and/or draksound to get it to use the right driver. Secondly, if you use kmix as I do, and have 10.0 Community, be aware that the volume slider isn't where you'd expect it to be. This threw me at first. You may need to bump up the 3D slider raher the master or pcm sliders. Also, I've had better luck having sound work (on boot!) with Thomas Backlund's kernels, available at http://www.iki.fi or installable via your contrib sources. Thanks a lot. Little problem is, I haven't got the slightest idea where to find draksound. Also, I do not compute mcc. However I will keep searching. I didn't find anything for sound in the Mandrake Control Centre. Cordially Teilhard. - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Saturday 05 June 2004 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just on first boot, but not this time. I haven't got the slightest idea of what to do to fix this problem. My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. Your help will be appreciated. Teilhard The first thing i would check is all the various volume control apps you have, I have found the same problem myself and just checking the different mixers and volume contol apps fixed the problem. Regards, Dan Gordon Thanks a lot. Actually I played a bit with that. However, I got a Home Theatre, and one of the lights of the amplifier blinks whenever the sound card is not active. In that way I know that it is not just a matter of not enough volume and such. Thanks for the feedback. Is your amplifier connected to the soundcard with a digital S/PDIF cable (optical or coaxial)? HTH, -Frans I do not really know, but I would say it's coaxial, otherwise I would have Cambridge (the make of the Home Theatre) boasting of optical connections in the manual, etc. Teilhard. - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:50:31 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Little problem is, I haven't got the slightest idea where to find draksound. Also, I do not compute mcc. However I will keep searching. I didn't draksound is part of drakxtools-newt rpm. mcc is part of drakconf. urpmf 'program' is very nice, it will tell you what rpm has the file, and you don't necessarily even have to have the file present on the drive. find anything for sound in the Mandrake Control Centre. You'd think it would be there, but it's configured separately through draksound. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] sound card configuration
Hello Have installed sound blaster 16pci sound card. Hardrake recognized and listed 2 driver-for oss and alsa. Set for alsa and got the follwing message when applying:Informational-artsmessage--error while initializing sound driver:device: default can't be opened for playback(no such device). Sound server will continue using the null device. Have double checked connections and everything seems ok. Is there something else that needs to be checked or changed? Thanks in advance John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] sound volume
Hello Have installed sound blaster 16pci sound card. Hardrake offered 2 drivers-oss and alsa. Installed the alsa driver. I have the alsa mixer gui. The sound volume at maximum setting is still low. Any ideas on how to increase volume wuld be appreciated. Thanks John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
