luke9511

when it comes to linux im not very good at describing problems if i have any and most of the time when i install linux i have problems with the sound card and not the video card :unsure:

i got it fixed heres my thread on linuxquestions.org in case someone else may need help my thread on linuxquestions

not really have all updates and tryed as many guides as i could find and when it breaks the xserver and i restart into recovery mode and do sudo startx it says no screens found

hello all hope your doing well, i have ubuntu 6.10 installed on my dektop (finally got it working) and im having problems getting my video card working ie direct rendering 3d etc, i managed to get it working once but when i restarted my xserver messed up and wouldnt boot into either gdm or kde and it seems as if the sti drivers are messing breaking the xserver to where i have to use vesa or mesa in order to get it to boot, i have already posted this problem on the ubuntu forums but its slow go as theres so many posts on there that mine gets pushed back so im trying other linux forums, also here the readout from the lspci command, the video card is a ATI Radeon X1600 PCI-E 512mb video card root@trey-desktop:~# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI-X Root Port 00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc ATI 4379 Serial ATA Controller 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller 00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11) 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV530 [Radeon X1600] 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV530 [Radeon X1600] (Secondary) 02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 02:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) 02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07) 02:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07) 02:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)

ok so i switched over to ubuntu and i have to say i love it, works alot better with my older machines than mandriva did though i still like mandriva, but anyway, im trying to install updated video card drivers for my laptop under ubuntu but when i do what it says to do i get this if anyone knows whats going on please let me know

nope not in there, but the strange thing is, that alsa can detect the card and it seems to load a driver for it, but it doesnt work

i did that command in the console and i didnt get any errors

question, is there a reason why my ISA sound card i not in sounddrak, but yet alsa detected it and loaded a driver for it but yet i cant hear sound? and everything is not muted

ok heres an update, been working on the whole alsa problem on and off and still havent got it fixed, i tryed to install the latest version but it wont install, so if anyone has any advice please let me know, thanks.

ok i got mandriva 2007 free installed and it works good but alsa is not working and its installed, tryed doing alsaconf and it says bash: alsaconf: command not found which is weird since its installed etc

well i downloaded and am burning the free version of mandriva 2007, so i guess we will find out how well it will run

yes im running 10.1 and i posted in one of the other forums on this site asking if i should upgrade or not, since i only use this for learning but since i cant seem to get alsa updated and/or get my sound card working looks like im gonna have to update

hmmm that didnt seem to work and also something that i keep forgetting to post is that, my sound card doesnt show up in MCC for some strange reason, the only thing i can think of is that the sound card is ISA, but thanks for the advice

ok heres the error im getting

hey all sorry for not updatting but i been sick and stuff so yeah but anyway, i have following this page to get alsa updated click here also sorry for any typos in this post, now im not able to update my copy of mandriva cause of my processer, i think thats the error i get when i try to update, its a 600mhz P3

my current alsa version is 1.0.6 and i have already done the urpmi and it couldnt update updates and i got use the update thing in mandriva cause of my computers processer i think(its a 600mhz intel P3)

huh?

ok after getting the above error fixed im not getting more, as there to many to post heres a couple of them *** NO PREDEFINED KERNEL COMPILER IS DETECTED *** Assuming the same compiler is used with the current system compiler. *** Please make sure that the same compiler version was used for building kernel. make[4]: *** [/home/trey/alsa-driver-1.0.13/acore/sound.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** [/home/trey/alsa-driver-1.0.13/acore] Error 2 make[2]: *** [_module_/home/trey/alsa-driver-1.0.13] Error 2 make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-12mdk' make: *** [compile] Error 2 snyonr know this means?

yes im behind a router and i use this to learn, i guess having my sound not working is kind of a good thing for me since, with the help of the people of this forum, i might be able to get it to work and in the process learn more about linux, cause thats what i want to do is learn, im in college right now at ITT Tech and am in the game design course and im pretty sure that i dont get a linux class of any kind, even know as much as i would like too, so this way and the net is the only way for me to learn linux in my spare time and i dont host servers on linux and thank you and anyone else who may reply for your advice and comments and i would like to hear more for people on this subject so that it can give me ideas and such.

ok after been trying to update alsa and getting my sound card to work and everything and someone said that my version of mandriva is (which is version 10.1) a security risk and that i should upgrade, now first i want to know,is that true? and is there any reasons why i should, cause i kinda dont want too, so please give me some advice.

ok i dont know if this goes here or not but here it goes, so im trying to install an updated version of alsa and when i go to install it and i do the ./configure commmand i get this checking for kernel linux/version.h... no The file /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h does not exist. Please install the package with full kernel sources for your distribution or use --with-kernel=dir option to specify another directory with kernel sources (default is /usr/src/linux). can anyone tell me what this means and how to fix it? and thanks in advance for any help/advice

ok i think i spoke to soon, when i go to test the sound i get an error, have been trying to get the error back but it wont come back for some reason, but i can play and hear cds, but if i play a mp3 i get a ticking sound in the speakers and also i can hear sounds from videos on the net, i looked in another post about the online video thing and the option someone gave to fix it didnt work for me, so if anyone else has some advice please let me know

ok i got it to work, just had to switch out the sound card for another one, but thanks for the help/advice

yes and yes and its a sound blaster 16 isa

hello everyone its been a while since i posted here so it feels good to post again :D, anyway i just reinstalled linux on an old computer i just recently got and it installed fine, etc but theres no sound, everything is turned on and everything, but it doesnt seem to work, after searching google and reading the posts on here and doing most of the stuff they said to do didnt help, now i can here some sort of static in the speakers but no sound comes out, so if anyone can give me any advice at all i would be greatfull.