MrMorden

Try disabling harddrake. Harddrake has a habit of rewriting configuration files. Besides, you don't need it running anyway if you don't change your hardware.

 

To disable harddrake, go to Mandrake Control Center. Then choose System -> Services. Uncheck the box at the Hardrake section and press the stop button. Reboot, and see if the symptom still happens.

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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?

Working fine with for me. Which version are you running?

There's some trouble with v.4.3 and I don't know if they fixed the problem, but my suggestion is you try with the CVS version.

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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

Any reason why you would want to have alsa in the kernel? Just build a new kernel. :)

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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 :)]