hey guys,

i have an aureal au8810 soundcard. im farely new to mandrake, but whenever i use a program that requires sound, it either doesn't work or just crashes. Windows is able to use it, but Linux can't. Im using the pre-installed alsa, and during boot-up it *says* it loads fine.

Any ideas?

what program are you trying to load? is it XMMS? Stupidly, XMMS still defaults to use the OSS Sound System: which isnt installed - hence no sound.

In the case of XMMS - change the Output plugin it to ALSA in the Preferences menu. That solved the problem on a number of different machines. Although, noen of them had your exact sound card.

also, what i did was to turn off the optical output in kmix, that solved the problem, but now everytime that i reboot, i have to do that again and again. I have a audigy 2 zs soundcard, hope this helps...

yeah,

i should probably mention this is my first time using a linux GUI, im used to be a normal user with a konsole. Im using totem movie player, i haven't gotten around installing XMMS yet. What should i do exactly (newbie) i need almost exact instructions.


thanks!

richard

installed XMMS,


but oddly there is no option for an other output besides OSS driver...

Go to "Configure your Desktop" > Under Sound > Sound System

Check that its enabled in the General tab

Check that Autodetect or Alsa are selected in the Hardware tab.

Have a fiddle here - do you get sound? Remember to close your sound app - XMMS or whatever it is - between goes...

Also: I realised my error. XMMS-alsa is a seperate package in 10.0CE. I'd recommend you install that as well. Third disk I think.

mousematt