[clug-talk] sound

Mitchell Brown mbgb14 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 19 10:52:46 PDT 2006 

Yup. you can choose different drivers for the card. Almost anything
actually.


On 4/19/06, Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca> wrote:
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> I have not used Mandrake (Mandriva) since the late 90s, so I have no
> idea what this looks like.
>
> Is there a sound and multimedia section to either of these control panels?
>
> Mitchell Brown wrote:
> > Yes there's the regular KDE control panel and they also have the
> "PCLinuxOS
> > control center" where you can change stuff. It's pretty much identical
> to
> > the Mandriva Control Center on mandriva.
> >
> > On 4/18/06, Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca> wrote:
> > So, is there a control panel or settings or system settings icon?
> >
> > Mitchell Brown wrote:
> >>>> KDE 3.4.3
> >>>> There is an updated version in my repos but I am too lazy to download
> it
> >>>> (and I don't have the bandwidth this month).
> >>>> I have done it before but do not recall the sound working then
> either.
> >>>>
> >>>> On 4/18/06, *Gustin Johnson* <gustin at echostar.ca
> >>>> <mailto:gustin at echostar.ca>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> It looks like everything is working from the kernels point of view.
> >>>> What version of KDE does your distro use?  I am not at all familar
> with
> >>>> PCLinuxOS.  There should be a control panel of some sort (I am using
> >>>> KDE
> >>>> 3.5 which changed the control panel layout).  For me it is called
> >>>> System Settings, though I cannot remember if this was always its
> name.
> >>>> - From there I have an option for Sound and Multimedia, counter
> >>>> intuitively, I disable the KDE multimedia (asound) as it can cause
> >>>> problems with regular ALSA/Jack apps.
> >>>>
> >>>> Mitchell Brown wrote:
> >>>>> [root at localhost brown2]# lsmod |grep snd
> >>>>> snd_seq_dummy           2532  0
> >>>>> snd_seq_oss            28576  0
> >>>>> snd_seq_midi_event      5632  1 snd_seq_oss
> >>>>> snd_seq                44752  5
> >>>>> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
> >>>>> snd_pcm_oss            45856  0
> >>>>> snd_mixer_oss          15232  1 snd_pcm_oss
> >>>>> snd_ens1371            19200  0
> >>>>> gameport               10920  1 snd_ens1371
> >>>>> snd_rawmidi            18944  1 snd_ens1371
> >>>>> snd_seq_device          6668  4
> >>>>> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
> >>>>> snd_ac97_codec         75068  1 snd_ens1371
> >>>>> snd_pcm                74596  3
> snd_pcm_oss,snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec
> >>>>> snd_timer              19524  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
> >>>>> snd_page_alloc          8168  1 snd_pcm
> >>>>> snd                    44068  10
> >>>>
> >
> snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> >>>>> soundcore               6656  1 snd
> >>>>> [root at localhost brown2]# lspci
> >>>>> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo
> >>>>> PRO133x] (rev c4)
> >>>>> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo
> >>>>> MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
> >>>>> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile
> >>>> South]
> >>>>> (rev 23)
> >>>>> 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> >>>>> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
> >>>>> 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
> 1.1
> >>>>> Controller (rev 11)
> >>>>> 00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power
> Management
> >>>>> (rev 30)
> >>>>> 00:0f.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k HSFi Modem (rev
> 01)
> >>>>> 00:11.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97]
> >>>> (rev 08)
> >>>>> 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> >>>>> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
> >>>>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128
> >>>> RF/SG AGP
> >>>>> [root at localhost brown2]# ls -la /dev/snd
> >>>>> total 0
> >>>>> drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root      180 Apr 18 15:46 ./
> >>>>> drwxr-xr-x  24 root   root     4100 Apr 18 15:46 ../
> >>>>> crw-rw----   1 brown2 audio 116,  0 Apr 18 15:46 controlC0
> >>>>> crw-rw----   1 brown2 audio 116,  8 Apr 18 15:46 midiC0D0
> >>>>> crw-rw----   1 brown2 audio 116, 24 Apr 18 15:46 pcmC0D0c
> >>>>> crw-rw----   1 brown2 audio 116, 16 Apr 18 15:46 pcmC0D0p
> >>>>> crw-rw----   1 brown2 audio 116, 17 Apr 18 15:46 pcmC0D1p
> >>>>> crw-rw----   1 brown2 audio 116,  1 Apr 18 15:46 seq
> >>>>> crw-rw----   1 brown2 audio 116, 33 Apr 18 15:46 timer
> >>>>> [root at localhost brown2]#
> >>>>> On 4/18/06, *Gustin Johnson* < gustin at echostar.ca
> >>>> <mailto:gustin at echostar.ca>
> >>>>> <mailto: gustin at echostar.ca <mailto:gustin at echostar.ca>>> wrote:
> >>>>> lsmod |grep snd
> >>>>> also the lspci is a good idea (so we have an idea of the chipset
> >>>>> being used)
> >>>>> In addition, the output of:
> >>>>> ls -la /dev/snd
> >>>>> would be handy:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Mitchell Brown wrote:
> >>>>>> I have a small problem.
> >>>>>> I'm currently running PCLinuxOS .92 (a variant of Mandriva).
> >>>>>> I've tried everything to get the sound working. I just noticed
> >>>>> something
> >>>>>> peciluar. I had to boot onto the livecd (you install off the live
> cd
> >>>>>> too) to run the " redo-lilo.sh" (to fix my hosed MBR) and I
> >>>>> noticed... I
> >>>>>> heard the KDE login sound!!!! I'm like "WTF?!"
> >>>>>> Don't you think that's a little bit backwards to get sound on the
> >>>>> livecd
> >>>>>> and not the installed version?!
> >>>>>> Can someone assist me with this please?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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