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hey, this forum sucks. bye bye. and bye bye mdk.

so can anyone give me at least a courtesy "I feel your pain" reply?

So is it safe to assume this is an actual bug and not just a configuration error? Mandrake doesn't seem to keen on using alsa imo, I've had this trouble from 9.1 on up. Alsa works great on Slackware and Mepis, but its like the sound is pointing to nothing. It looks like its playing. I watch when my computer boots and see it load alsa 1.02, I hear a soft pop when it does this I s'pose from powering up the sound card. I noticed that kmix says it will use oss and alsa 0.9 and I'm certain I'm using alsa 1.0+ , could this be the error? Kmix is looking for the older drivers and not seeing the new ones? I know very little about how linux drivers work, can I symlink the one to the other?

I'm trying to make Mandrake use the alsa drivers for my nforce motherboard. I've used mcc to change the sound drivers to snd-intel8x0 instead of i810_audio. It let me change without having a fit, but alsa is not loaded. I try to start alsa with #service alsa restart it tries but then says FAILED killed by pid 2721 2829 I check my processes and these are artsd and kmix respectivly. And try again, this works so I open up xmms switch the output to alsa and I get a "Couldn't open audio error" I think to myself "self, maybe you outta load artsd using alsa as the audio device. I do this and get the sound server "error while initializing the sound driver: error popup. Out if ideas i reboot. During reboot I walk away to make coffee and when I return I'm in a console. Weird. I log in as root, start alsa again, it starts fine. I check alsamixer, nothing is muted. I exit and try to load X, first #mdkkdm nothing, then #init 5 nothing so I use #startx . X loads (as root) and I decide i'll try xmms as root. I make sure its using alsa, select a file and press play. Its acting like its playing I see the visualisation moving etc. I check kmix, nothing is muted. I check the sound server, arts is setup to use alsa so I go back to xmms and choose arts as its output. Same thing it "looks" like its playing, but no sound. I try loading aumix and I see something odd. The Pcm volume is on 0 in kmix or alsamixer this isnt the case. I try to bring it up, but it wont let me. I keeps going back to 0. I exit kde as root. Try again as a user. Nothing, I load a video in kaffeine, nothing. I try xine nothing, so basically i'm out of ideas. My goal is to use some audio programs like audacity and ardour, and also to aleviate the sound hickup I keep getting when watching videos. Any suggestions? I checked kmix\Help\Hardware information and it said Sound drivers used:ALSA0.9 Doesn't the 2.6 kernel series include ALSA 1.0 by default? MSI Nforce Athlon XP 2000+ 512 Ram Mandrake 10 cooker upgraded to official Kernel 2.6.3-13mdk KDE 3.2 LSPCI for reference: ----------------------- 00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01b0 (rev c2) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 3730 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 (250ns min, 3000ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 12 Region 0: Memory at ef000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Audio (rev c2) Subsystem: Analog Devices: Unknown device 5361 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: I/O ports at dc00 Region 1: I/O ports at e000 Region 2: Memory at ef080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- modprobe.conf ------------- alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 alias eth1 8139too alias eth0 forcedeth install scsi_hostadapter ; /bin/true install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; } install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe usb-ohci; /bin/true remove snd-intel8x0 { /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0 alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia

I have the same problem with my nforce 1. My first question is are you using oss or alsa? I'm having trouble getting my computer make any sound at all with the alsa drivers.

Dont have any answers for you except your not alone. I absolutly LOVE Mepis, but it locks up on me. I have WinXP, Mandrake 10ce and Mepis installed. I use Mandrake primarily but would use Mepis almost exclusivly if it were more stable. What MOBO are you using? I'm using a MSI K7N420 Nforce board. It COULD be the video card because I think I'm also running a MX440, I'd have to double check (its a hand me down I stole from a friend when I got fed up with my Radeon 9000)