payasam Posted June 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 (edited) There is a file named alsa.conf, scarecrow. Trying to run it, even as root, brings a "permission denied" response. I also found a file called pulse-default.conf, in which every line begins with #DRAKSOUND. Could this be a permissions matter? I have installed and re-installed several times. I left /home untouched but the permissions changed in it. I now get a "bash-3.2$" prompt rather than a "localhost user" one except as root. [EDIT] I had not found an alsaconf with "whereis", so I pulled it in with urpmi. It ran, identified the sound card correctly, and quit after saying that it had done its work. However, there is still no sound. Urpmi reported that alsa-utils was already installed. Edited June 14, 2009 by payasam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 Please do a # lsmod | grep snd and paste here the whole console content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted June 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 Here we are. [root@localhost albert]# lsmod | grep snd snd_intel8x0 29112 2 snd_ac97_codec 102592 1 snd_intel8x0 ac97_bus 1532 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_dummy 2464 0 snd_seq_oss 29504 0 snd_seq_midi_event 6812 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 48912 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 6728 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 37504 0 snd_pcm 74496 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 20932 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_mixer_oss 14428 1 snd_pcm_oss snd 56516 13 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_p cm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss soundcore 6976 1 snd snd_page_alloc 8708 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonseth17 Posted June 18, 2009 Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 what about the output of cat /proc/asound/cardx/codec#x where "x" is the number of your card and the codec number it has.. you can get there (/proc/asound) and then use ls to see which number of directory you have card0, card1...main is card0...and then use "cd card0" or "cd card1" depending on the number and then use ls again and see the codec#x file it could be codec#0, codec#1...then post the output using cat codec#0 or codec#1...I don't really know which one you have....it could make easier to find where's the problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted June 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 ds17, thank you. I shall need a while to figure out the command I must used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted June 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 I have sound. It came on as soon as I turned off 3-D hardware acceleration in the graphical server section of MCC. Can't see the connection. However, video files still do not play -- although images from the videos are visible as thumbnails in the file browser so things are not all wrong. Maybe videos will start playing when I turn off the spelling check in Open Office. In five years of using Mandrake/Mandriva/PCLOS, this is the only time I have had such absurd trouble. This is called Progress, I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 18, 2009 Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 What are you using as video output in mplayer, or whatever you use for playing back your videos? In a system like yours, the best choice for output seems to be "xv" - not x11, gl or gl2. There's also vdpau, which works best with 3D-desktop on and HD videos, but it needs a patched mplayer/ xine and a very recent nvidia card (8xxx series or newer). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted June 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 (edited) Scarecrow, I have for a long while preferred VLC, but I also have MPlayer and a couple of others. I don't know where to specify the video output. [edit] In MPlayer, xv was specified. Videos began playing as soon as I changed it to X11. Now I must look into the other players. Thank you all for your patience. Edited June 18, 2009 by payasam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted October 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2009 Scarecrow, please see posts 22 and 23. I have a fresh installation of MDV + GNOME. No video. Cannot remember, and cannot find, the place where I specified X11. No audio either, but perhaps I shall set that right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted October 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 (edited) Silly of me to look everywhere but in the right place. I now have sound and video in VLC and MPlayer. However, now Thunderbird does not run. Here is what I get when I try to run it from the command line: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.23/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 5538 Segmentation fault /usr/bin/soundwrapper "$prog" ${1+"$@"} [edit] With Pulse Audio enabled in MCC, sound works but Thunderbird does not. When it is disabled, Thunderbird works but there is no sound. I recently installed Linux Mint on a friend's computer. To get things moving it was necessary to remove Pulse Audio completely. Could that be the solution of my problem? If it is, how do I go about it? Edited October 25, 2009 by payasam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted October 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 Scarecrow, I heard the shot when you let PulseAudio have it in the head. Don't hide, please. Removing PA in the ordinary way is not an option: the package manager threatens to remove 173 packages in all, which probably wouldn't leave the computer good even for Pong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 Well, I'm not hiding. PulseAudio should be shot in the head, period and fullstop. If the current firefox for Mandriva is built against PulseAudio (not using Mandriva, so I don't know), then simply use a stock one, from mozilla.org. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted October 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Now I'm really confused, scarecrow. Will switching to a stock Firefox solve my Thunderbird problem? Firefox runs fine with PA, it's Thunderbird that doesn't run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 Sorry, I meant thunderbird, not firefox. Get it from here, install it locally, and see what happens. Or, preferrably, use a better mail client (Claws, for example). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted November 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 On 2010, the same problem. In 2009 I had managed to get sound to work. Now that I have moved "up" to 2010, I am again without sound. There is a crackle from the speakers on booting up, but no welcome fanfare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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