Thorvan

Thanks mate, your a champ

Thanks mate, your a champ. Gaim had a built in option to turn it to Arts so it works sweet now. One thing though, when I am playing an mp3, for example, and goto play a flash game with firefox the sound works fine if I start firefox with artsdsp up front, I don't know if thats how you do it or not? Anyway, the sound is delayed somewhat ... Is that just arts way of doing things, and theres no way to change that? Or is there an option somewhere to decrease that delay? Uhhh I just got a message saying artsdsp crashed, and now all the arts app's dont have sound unless I switch it back. How to I start her up again?

Okay I went into the bootloader options, and ticked Enable ACPI and it just made 2.6 even worse! 2.4 still works fine ... but 2.6 is not only slow to boot, but slow to use altogether.

Well its working. I have absolutely no idea how or why ... but its working ... All I did was change something in the boot loader, enable acpi (which for the record made using 2.6 impossibly slow to boot and to use once its booted) and .. it worked. After fiddling with kmix a little I have sound ....... again I have no idea why........... Onto a new question, why does xmms crash when I goto load an mp3? Oh adn thanks a heap for all your help! I don't know, maybe I did do something you said and I didn't realise it ... I really have absolutely no idea ... I just rebooted and noticed it was able to load it fine ... and it even said it was alsa! So yeah ............... no idea ........... HAH! Gaim is so much better with sound notification ............ One last thing ( I hope ) is there a way to stop the system queing my sounds? If I'm playing a game or doing osmething that uses the sound, when it eventually stops I get all the other sounds (from gaim for example). How can I stop that n make it happen when its meant to?

I'm running mandrake 10 on a clean install. The boot loader was configured with several options to boot from, linux, and 2456. So if I uname -r now I get 2.4.25-2mdk. If I run under the other its a 2.6 (according to this its 2.6.3-7mdk), I Dunno exactly off the top of my head ... I keep using this one cause it takes so damn long to boot otherwise. I'll enable ACPI now and see if that fixes the problem. I'll get back to you again if not. For now I'm going to bed, so expect a reply tomorrow sometime ;)

You've still lost me, you may as well be speaking chinese. The 8x0 driver? the snd-intel8x0 one? Or another one? Its the only one in the list if I click "let me pick any driver". When I goto the sound system and go to turn it on, It says it can't find the device. If I do that it still lists the module as snd-cmipci. It also says that this is the "default" driver for my card. I don't know what to select. I don't know what I'm doing. You will have to tell me exactly what to do, I'm sorry. I still have no sound. As you can tell I'm becoming increasingly frustrated with this, its not worth this much of my time.

Okay I eventually got the drivers downloaded from the cmedia site and its just another tar.gz like I got on the CD that came with the card, just a slightly newer version. The readme file seems exactly the same though. The tar file comes with files: cmpci cmpci.c Config.in Configure.help Makefile README Is that what you're talking about? What do I do with them? I tried following the instructions on the one on the CD and it didn't work, but maybe I did it wrong. Or maybe thats not what you mean at all. This is turning into a lot of work to get sound, something I can't live without. If I don't have sound I won't be using linux. I just seem to be going in circles.

I have 512mb of ram, and about that in swap space a little less purely from memory. The partitions are ext3. Compiling my own kernel is a little out of my reach at this point in time, I'm still trying to get other things working right. 2.4 boots fine, and fast, and shuts it down. I was just wondering if there was some issue with 2.6.

Download it from the Cmedia website? Well okay, thats what I'm doing now ... but even though its only 800kb its going to take a year cause the site seems so dodgey I can't download from it. Nevertheless, I'll let it keep going. It looks like another tar file, which is the same thing that came on the cd. I had a tar on the cd, but you said I didn't need to do that? Or have I completely misunderstood? Do I have to download OSS from the OSS site? Can't even get a speed of 0.2Kb/sec at the moment. Should I just try booting with the 2.6 kernel then? Will that use ALSA or what? I don't understand why I'm using OSS just cause I'm using the 2.4 kernel. This card was a "no strings attached" kind of deal, I can take it back and say I couldn't get it to work and get a creative one ordered in. For some reason no one keeps creative in bloody stock. But this one should work!

Okay draksound is what I was playing with before, just via MCC rather than console. I only have two options, both give errors: [root@localhost davious]# draksound Doing alsactl to store mixer settings... [ OK ] Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 1.0.2c): [ OK ] rmmod: module snd-cmipci is not loaded Loading sound module (cmpci) Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg /lib/modules/2.4.25-2mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/cmpci.o.gz: init_module: No such device modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.25-2mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/cmpci.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod cmpci failed [FAILED] [root@localhost davious]# draksound rmmod: module cmpci is not loaded Starting ALSA version 1.0.2c: (cmipci) [ OK ] /lib/modules/2.4.25-2mdk/kernel/sound/pci/snd-cmipci.o.gz: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.25-2mdk/kernel/sound/pci/snd-cmipci.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod snd-cmipci failed insmod'ing module snd-cmipci failed at /usr/lib/libDrakX/modules.pm line 85.

Sorry if this is in the wrong place, feel free to move it. My question is quick, and hopefully simple enough to answer :) When I boot mandrake 10 with 2.6 it takes an extraordinary amount of time to boot, it takes for ever checking or mounting the partitions. I don't know why, any ideas? Also, it won't shut down when I'm using 2.6. I can reboot, but if I tell it to shut down it doesn't correctly power down the computer.

Okay so I was looking in the wrong spot? Fair enough ... where/how abouts do i go about loading these OSS modules without modprobe?

Also while I'm here the only reason I'm using kernel 2.4 instead of 2.6 is because when I use 2.6 it takes forever and a day to boot, and it doesn't power off the system correctly. 2.4 does? Its things like these that make me seriously question why I'm even bothering.

Theres no 8x0's running anymore, got rid of them. ALSA is shut down in services (I assume you mean in sercies?) but there is no OSS listed there? Theres a sound, thats already running. So I don't know ...?

Pointers on updating media then urpmi? I'm still getting used to all this stuff. dmesg says in relation to this particular card C-Media PCI soundcard not found or device busy. It also says Intel ICH soundcard not found or device busy? I'm running kernel 2.4. In the log it says C-Media PCI soundcard not found or device busy and then also Intel ICH soundcard not found or device busy. Then alsa: succeeded. Scratch that, got rid of the intel thing.