jhipkiss

I ran alsaconf from root and it sorted my problems out.

thanks I'll try these but here's an update:

If I login as root and then bring up Kmix and increase the volumne on the various channels the sound works fine, if I then logout of root and login as me then the sound is still fine.

However, I login straight as me after boot I get the above error and get no sound, even if I then login as root, I have to restart and go back via root again!!!

Is this some sort of permissions issue to do with initialising the sound????

Here's lspci's stuff:

00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)

Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 4161

Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10

I/O ports at dc00

Capabilities: <available only to root>

I had Mandrake 9.2 on my PC and the sound was fine, when I upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 I lost all sound and when I boot it complains that it can't find a sound card.

The sound is part of the motherboard which is a Soltec SL-85DRV5-C

When I logon I get this in a popup entitled "Informational - artsmessage":

Sound server informational message:

Error while initializing the sound driver:

device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)

The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

Any ideas? I'm fairly new to Linux so am unsure where to start first.

Thanks for any advice.

Jonathan

I took this tip from alt.os.linux.gentoo:

>I've had some luck playing with the nVidia AGP settings - edit your XF86Config

>

>Section "Device"

> Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce"

> Driver "nvidia"

> #Option "NvAGP" "0" # disable agp

> Option "NvAGP" "1" # use nvidia agp

> #Option "NvAGP" "2" # use agpgart

> #Option "NvAGP" "3" # try 2 than 1

> #VideoRam 32768

> # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate

>EndSection

Everything now works fine! Or at least does so far!!!!!

Thanks for all your help and and I hope this tip helps someone else.

Jonathan

try using nvpart instead of agpart ..or the other way around. using nvpart worked for me.

 

It's an option in yout XF86Config-4-file. I can work for you ...

 

in the device-section:

Option      "NvAGP"                "1"

This worked for me thanks a lot!!!

Are you running an nvidia graphics card with the official drivers?  I was having similar issues until I disabled "agp fast write" in my BIOS.

Thanks for that tip but it already is switched off.

Just for the record, when your experience a freeze, the proper course of action is:

 

1. Try to restart the X server by hitting ctrl-alt-backspace

 

2. Try to switch to another virtual console by hitting ctrl-alt-Fn, where n is 1 to 6; if you are able to do so, you can login and kill the process which locks up your system

 

3. If this doesn't work, the next thing to try is to login remotely if your computer has a ssh server running or something similar

 

4. If all this fail, hit alt-sysrq-S,U,B  (without letting go of alt-sysrq). Sysrq is the print screen key. Those key sequences go directly to the kernel: alt-sysrq-S syncs all your drives; alt-sysrq-U unmounts all mounted filesystems; alt-sysrq-B is an immediate reboot. Doing alt-sysrq-S,U,B is much more clean than hitting reset and will work 95% of the time.

 

5. If event alt-sysrq-S,U,B fails, that means the kernel itself is not responding. Hit reset.

 

You know, you're not the only one with random freezing of Mandrake 9.2.

Those are some top tips, I didn't know any of that. Thanks

The first option Ctrl-Alt-Backspace worked after my last freeze. So at least we now know that it's X-Server that's freezing.

Still don't kow why though. I guess it's my video card (NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440) but I don't know what to do about it, www.nvidia.com seems to be constantly down :-(

I've recently installed Mandrake 9.2 on my main machine, however every so often everything just freezes and the only way out is to hit the reset button!!!

Does anyone have any ideas on how to start trouble shooting this?

It doesn't have any recognisable pattern nor is it liked to running any particular software, this problem has no prejudices!!!!

It is however making the machine unuseable, as I can probably only work for 10 or may be 20 minutes before it all locks up!

H E L P!!!!!

Thanks

Jonathan

Hi,

I've recently installed Mandrake 9.2 and chose just to have KDE added at install.

Everything worked fine. I since decided to try out GNOME and so installed the package from the CDs, no problem!

However, while it shows as being installed, the menus haven't changed and when I get the choice at login to go for KDE or ICE or GNOME, GNOME is missing!

Any ideas?

Jonathan