Christian.Mercat

Alright, it seems KDE is to blame because the KDE bell configuration works,

% kcmshell bell

gives me a clean signal. So it's no hardware. Any idea how to tame this arts thingy?

Thanks, Christian Mercat

> alsamixer

Of course I can. But the changes I do don't lead me anywhere, nothing is muted etc...

Actually I hear the horrible crack sound + the usual beep whenever the system beep is called... I don't know through which path this beep is issued and how I can use this info to get to the point...

Thanks, Christian Mercat

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