Hi there,
Better is the enemy of good. I had a working 9.2rc with the ATI acceleration compiled in and for no reasons I decided to upgrade to 9.2. I installed the precompiled ATI acceleration packages. And I have no sound anymore (I don't know if it is related to ATI). The only sound I hear is at boot time, when restoring the Alsa mixer setup, an horrible crack. And the same crack sometimes when I drakxservices up and down the alsa or sound modules.
xmms and play seem happy with themselves but I can't hear anything. kmix is not happy:
$ kmix
Loading required GL library /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
ERROR: KMix : impossible de trouver le mixeur.
Veuillez vérifier que la carte son est installée et que le
pilote de la carte est chargé
Roughly: impossible to find the mixer. Please check that your sound card is installed and that its driver is loaded.
And they are:
# lspcidrake -v | grep AUDIO
snd-intel8x0 : Intel Corporation|ICH4 845G/GL Chipset AC'97 Audio Controller [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:8086 device:24c5 subv:1028 subd:011d)
# grep sound-slot /etc/modules.conf
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
# lsmod |grep snd
snd-seq-oss 32000 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 6080 0 [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 42544 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-pcm-oss 43652 0 (unused)
snd-mixer-oss 14200 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-intel8x0 22020 3
snd-pcm 79588 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer 18436 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 45720 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-mpu401-uart 4704 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi 17760 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 5832 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
snd-page-alloc 9044 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm]
snd 41380 3 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 6340 0 [snd]
# chkconfig --list sound
sound 0:Arrêt 1:Arrêt 2:Marche 3:Marche 4:Marche 5:Marche 6:Arrêt
# chkconfig --list alsa
alsa 0:Arrêt 1:Arrêt 2:Marche 3:Marche 4:Marche 5:Marche 6:Arrêt
# aumix -q
vol 100, 100, R
pcm 84, 84
speaker 87, 87
line 65, 65, P
mic 65, 65, P
cd 100, 100, P
igain 100, 100
line1 65, 65, P
phin 65, 65, P
video 65, 65, P
# amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [on]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [on]
Also I lost some items in the menus lists under the KDE menu, I used to have xmms and everything under the Sound menu and they are no longer there. It seems I should reinstall some packages but I don't know how to (I only know how to deinstall things and reinstall them but that's obviously not what I want to do, so many things rely on sound!). Should I download manually alsa and --force its installation?
Thanks,
Christian Mercat