MrMorden

Thanks, I disabled harddrake. I'll consider this issue resolved until/unless it happens again. :D

Hey, everyone: I found today that my hardware-accelerated video was suddently broken, and upon examining xorg.conf, also found that something had changed the driver from nvidia back to nv. Changing the driver back to nvidia fixed the problem. Has anyone else observed this behavior in Mandrake 10.1 official?

I'm running v.4.3, Stable Linux release. I'll try the CVS tomorrow if I can get enough homework done to justify it. Thanks, -MrMorden

There seems to be a problem that only myself and one other user have experienced trying to get this game working; both of us on Mandrake Linux. When I try to run vsinstall, the game starts up instead of the install program. So after digging through Vega Strike message boards for awhile, I tried running vsinstall.sh with the --setup arg, but I got a segmentation fault. The same happens when I try to run the setup. Anyone get this game to work? Any pointers? -MrMorden

Recompiled ALSA as a module; it works now. Thank you! -MrMorden

I thought performance might be better if it were directly in the kernel instead of loaded as a package. Just goes to show that I'm a newbie.

Hello everyone: My sound is now working in Kaffeine, but not in any other program I've tried so far. I've tried RealPlayer and Chromium; no sound from either. In my attempts to solve the problem, I have done Google/linux searches on the following: Sound in kaffeine but not Sound in kaffeine but not elsewhere snd module not found snd moudle not found alsaconf "snd module not found" alsaconf ...and a few others along these lines. I have also tried running alsaconf, which gives me the error "snd module not found" before telling me that it can't find any plug-and-play compatible sound cards. I also checked alsamixer and confirmed that the sound is not muted. (Which it wouldn't be in any case, since I can get sound out of Kaffeine.) [Edit] Also searched this forum for 'Sound Kaffeine'[End edit] The problem first appeared after I recompiled the kernel, compiling ALSA and the intel8x0 driver into the kernel instead of having them as modules. My system information is as follows: Distribution: Mandrake 10.1 Official (with custom kernel) Motherboard: Gigabyte 7NNXP (NForce2) CPU: Athlon XP 3200+ Memory: 1 GB Corsair TwinX Video card: GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 256 MB Sound driver: intel8x0 Can someone give me a nudge in the right direction? Thank you for your time. -MrMorden

I talked to a friend of mine; he said that it sounded like a resource conflict. I disconnected eth0, and my sound started working normally. So that solved one problem, but it only raises another question, which I will ask in another thread. Edit: Resolved the problem by telling my BIOS to set the IRQ of the network controller to IRQ 9. It is, however, a little troubling that /proc/interrupts shows eth0 showing up on IRQ 11... PS: Thanks to spinynorman for formatting my previous post. CPU0 0: 280848 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 1018 IO-APIC-edge i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 1629 IO-APIC-edge NVidia nForce2 11: 483846 IO-APIC-edge eth0 12: 10331 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 10410 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 5019 IO-APIC-edge ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 280768 ERR: 0 MIS: 0

Hello, everyone: Let's get the preliminaries out of the way: Distribution: Mandrake 10.1 Official Motherboard: Gigabyte 7NNXP (NForce2) CPU: Athlon XP 3200+ Memory: 1 GB Corsair TwinX Video card: GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 256 MB Sound driver: intel8x0 When I try to play an .avi file in Kaffeine 0.4.3b, the sound plays normally for about twenty seconds, after which the last half-second or so plays as though on continuous loop for the next few seconds, after which the sound cuts out entirely. The video continues playing normally, however. Also, Kaffeine won't close by itself, but will ony close after the "window is not responding" dialogue comes up. If I try to bring up another instance of Kaffeine, it plays the first half-second of the audio as though it were on continuous loop for a few seconds, then cuts out. I'm getting similar behavior from Real Player 10.0.3.748 as well when trying to play .rm files. It plays the first few seconds of audio, after which the last half-second of audio goes into continous loop. The video freezes at this time as well. Interestingly, the sound can be briefly restored four a couple of seconds by dragging the clip to a new location, after which the video freezes again and the sound goes back to looping over the last half-second or so. In either case, I lose internet connectivity after trying to view the multimedia files. Connectivity can be restored by disconnecting and recoonecting eth0. Here's some additional information that I think might be useful: Contents of modprobe.conf: # This file is autogenerated from /etc/modules.conf using generate-modprobe.conf command alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 alias eth1 e1000 alias eth0 nvnet Contents of modules.preload: # /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. # this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY # for old kernel use /etc/modules nvnet nvidia-agp Contents of /etc/modules: # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. Contents of /etc/modules.conf: none Output of /sbin/lsmod: Module Size Used by md5 3584 1 ipv6 230916 8 rfcomm 32348 0 l2cap 19876 5 rfcomm bluetooth 39076 4 rfcomm,l2cap snd-seq-oss 31232 0 snd-seq-midi-event 6080 1 snd-seq-oss snd-seq 47440 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss 49480 0 snd-mixer-oss 17376 2 snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0 30124 1 snd-ac97-codec 69392 1 snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm 81800 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-intel8x0 snd-timer 20356 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-page-alloc 7400 2 snd-intel8x0,snd-pcm gameport 3328 1 snd-intel8x0 snd-mpu401-uart 5856 1 snd-intel8x0 snd-rawmidi 19300 1 snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-device 6344 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi snd 45988 11 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-intel8x0, snd-ac97-codec,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-mpu401-uart,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device soundcore 7008 2 snd af_packet 16072 4 floppy 55088 0 e1000 80836 0 ide-cd 37280 0 cdrom 37724 1 ide-cd loop 12520 0 reiserfs 259220 1 nls_iso8859-1 3680 1 ntfs 147964 1 nvidia-agp 5788 1 agpgart 27752 1 nvidia-agp nvnet 66660 0 ext3 120680 1 jbd 49080 1 ext3 Thank you for your time. -MrMorden [formatted by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)]