RyanWw

Hello everyone. This is just a follow up for those of you who may be having the same issues with Mandrake 10. Well after trying everything known to man, attempting to fix this issue was unsuccessful. I wouldn't like to say that I gave up, but I did give up on Mandrake 10 working with my sound card. It appears that my soundcard modules were damaged, on not just on my downloaded version. I guess it was a kernel issue or something, devries could tell you more if you want to know for sure. I just finished installing SuSE 9.1 personal, and even though it was full of frustration with the installation, I did get my sound working with much ease. So all in all, SuSE will be my light now, GL to all of you who have the same issues. Regards to devries for all of his help. Thanks devries, you're certainly a glimmer in the linux community.

[root@localhost ryan]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M266 Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV280 [Radeon 9200] (rev 01) 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5941 (rev 01)

Hey do you wanna use msn messenger or aim instead? It may be easier? Just an idea. Msn: ryanww@toughguy.net AIM: RyanWw2

I did the stuff that you wanted me to do in the installation forum... and im still getting errors trying to update. Should I urpmi.removemedia -a and start again?

I did a lspci and it returned an error. So I did urpmi lspci and it said no package named lspci.

ok, I went into the alsaconf, while it was looking for sound cards it came up with nothing and then exited. There is a post that sound familier that was just posted a little bit ago. The /dev/dsp thing. I also do not have a /dev/dsp directory.

Ok I will try that after the last urpmi thing is finished. I'm on contrib with about 3 minutes left in the download.

I did a reformat and re-installation.... I still do not have sound. I still get that alsa error in verbose mode at start up. This is qiute frustrating.

Well I just did a reformat and re-installation. So I don't have it anymore. But if you want to check it out, I can give you the link. http://www.driverguide.com Login: drivers Password: all

I did try to look for a via82cxxx_audio driver on www.driverguide.com. I found one. But I have no idea how to install it. Can you help?

I did a quick check even though I already knew it was turned on. It was turned on in the bios.

Hey Devries. I was starting to think you gave up on me. I just did another post to try and get someone else to look at my problem. I will try a re-install in a little bit. For now, i'm just going to wait a bit longer to see if anyone else has another suggestion for me. Thought I do appreciate your advice and help. If I don't hear from anyone within the next 10 to 20 mins i'll go ahead and try a reinstall. Thanks for all your help devries, I appreciate the time and effort you did on this issue. Thanks again.

Hi, I'm a linux newbie. I'm desperately trying to get my sound card to work. I have been working with another user named devries on this problem, but it seems he has given up on it. The topic is http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=17930 Just to get you up to speed on the problem and the steps I have taken here is a summary. My system runs Windows XP and Mandrake 10.0 duelboot. I have the (gasp) soyo P4VGA motherboard using the ATI Radeon 9200 agp card. I have a Via VT8233 onboard sound card. Via82cxx_audio and snd-via82xx are the drivers that Mandrake allows me to use with Mandrake. I have done many things to try and resolve this issue. I don't know if the drivers are not working, or maybe my sound card isn't supported. I have tried to get into alsamixergui many times getting an error "alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device". I have tried both drivers. With the Via82cxx_audio driver I get an error at startup: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: default can't be opened (No such device) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. And I cannot get the alsa service to start. With snd-via82xx, I can get the alsa service started but I get an error in verbose mode during startup: Aug 24 16:29:28 localhost alsa: succeeded Aug 24 16:29:31 localhost alsactl: alsactl: load_state:1134: Aug 24 16:29:31 localhost alsactl: No soundcards found... Aug 24 16:29:31 localhost sound: Setting mixer settings failed I have also changed and tested in both alsa and oss mode in the sound settings. The sound server will come up with a message when I use the Via82cxx_audio however. I did an lsmod: Module Size Used by md5 3872 1 ipv6 232352 6 sg 38044 0 st 38616 0 sr_mod 17028 0 sd_mod 16832 0 scsi_mod 114648 4 sg,st,sr_mod,sd_mod radeon 127008 20 ppp_synctty 8832 0 ppp_async 11744 1 ppp_generic 29552 6 ppp_synctty,ppp_async slhc 7200 1 ppp_generic snd-seq-oss 31232 0 snd-seq-midi-event 7552 1 snd-seq-oss snd-seq 51024 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss 51812 0 snd-mixer-oss 17952 1 snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx 24128 0 snd-pcm 93156 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-via82xx snd-timer 24484 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-ac97-codec 58148 1 snd-via82xx gameport 4480 1 snd-via82xx snd-page-alloc 11972 2 snd-via82xx,snd-pcm snd-mpu401-uart 7072 1 snd-via82xx snd-rawmidi 23616 1 snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-device 8008 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi snd 52484 12 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd- mixer-oss,snd-via82xx,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-ac97-codec,snd-mpu401- uart,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device soundcore 9248 1 snd af_packet 20520 6 raw 7616 1 ide-floppy 18752 0 ide-tape 34864 0 ide-cd 40548 0 cdrom 37184 2 sr_mod,ide-cd floppy 59444 0 via-rhine 20520 0 mii 4992 1 via-rhine nls_iso8859-1 3904 2 ntfs 85932 2 supermount 37876 1 tsdev 7168 0 via-agp 7360 1 agpgart 31016 2 via-agp usbkbd 6912 0 joydev 10240 0 evdev 9504 0 usbmouse 5216 0 hid 53312 0 ehci-hcd 24196 0 uhci-hcd 29104 0 usbcore 99132 7 usbkbd,usbmouse,hid,ehci-hcd,uhci-hcd rtc 11576 0 And my /etc/modprobe.conf alias eth0 via-rhine alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx enable=1 install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-via82xx && { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; } install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe usb-uhci; /sbin/modprobe ehci-hcd; /bin/true remove snd-via82xx { /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove snd-via82xx Also, I have deleted two oss modules not knowing that I was not supposed to. Using this link: http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@list...t/msg13884.html I deleted the Via82cxx_audio.tar.gz and Ac97_codec.tar.gz modules. I hope this doesn't degrade the chance of me getting sound working. I must say that yes, I am very frustrated, but i'm willing to try and solve this problem using any type of troubleshooting you may come up with. I am a linux newbie, but i'm willing to learn. The reason I am posting another topic on this issue is because I had two topics that were all spanned out and I wanted to combine them so that someone out here may be able to figure it out. I tried to be specific as possible, if you need any more info please lemme know. If you would like to help me using msn messenger, please use Ryanww@toughguy.net. Thanks. Thank you very much for your time.

It's a new day. Anyone have any suggestions?

I don't know if it's muted or not. I can't open the alsamixergui. The sound works fine in XP though so I know it's not the sound card. I have went into the setting in the Control Center and ive changed it to alsa a while ago, it didn't have an effect.

Hi, sorry for the late reply, watching the olympics :D [root@main ryan]# chkconfig --list | grep alsa alsa 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off Doing alsactl to store mixer settings... [ OK ] Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 1.0.2c): [ OK ] [root@main ryan]# service alsa start Starting ALSA version 1.0.2c: via82xx. [ OK ] Doing alsactl to restore mixer settings... [ OK ] Hope this helps.

I tried to open up modprobe.conf without using the konsole and I got this in KWrite: alias eth0 via-rhine alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx enable=1 install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-via82xx && { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; } install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe usb-uhci; /sbin/modprobe ehci-hcd; /bin/true remove snd-via82xx { /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove snd-via82xx

Back in mandrake now. I tried to do the /etc/modprobe.conf but it says permission denied. (using normal and root both say the same thing). I did do a lsmod though: Module Size Used by md5 3872 1 ipv6 232352 6 sg 38044 0 st 38616 0 sr_mod 17028 0 sd_mod 16832 0 scsi_mod 114648 4 sg,st,sr_mod,sd_mod radeon 127008 20 ppp_synctty 8832 0 ppp_async 11744 1 ppp_generic 29552 6 ppp_synctty,ppp_async slhc 7200 1 ppp_generic snd-seq-oss 31232 0 snd-seq-midi-event 7552 1 snd-seq-oss snd-seq 51024 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss 51812 0 snd-mixer-oss 17952 1 snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx 24128 0 snd-pcm 93156 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-via82xx snd-timer 24484 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-ac97-codec 58148 1 snd-via82xx gameport 4480 1 snd-via82xx snd-page-alloc 11972 2 snd-via82xx,snd-pcm snd-mpu401-uart 7072 1 snd-via82xx snd-rawmidi 23616 1 snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-device 8008 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi snd 52484 12 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-via82xx,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-ac97-codec, snd-mpu401-uart,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device soundcore 9248 1 snd af_packet 20520 6 raw 7616 1 ide-floppy 18752 0 ide-tape 34864 0 ide-cd 40548 0 cdrom 37184 2 sr_mod,ide-cd floppy 59444 0 via-rhine 20520 0 mii 4992 1 via-rhine nls_iso8859-1 3904 2 ntfs 85932 2 supermount 37876 1 tsdev 7168 0 via-agp 7360 1 agpgart 31016 2 via-agp usbkbd 6912 0 joydev 10240 0 evdev 9504 0 usbmouse 5216 0 hid 53312 0 ehci-hcd 24196 0 uhci-hcd 29104 0 usbcore 99132 7 usbkbd,usbmouse,hid,ehci-hcd,uhci-hcd rtc 11576 0 The name of the driver I set it to using harddrake is snd-via82xx. It says that snd-via82xx is an alsa driver. Whereas, the Via82cxxx_audio is OSS. Using the troubleshooter in the config tool in harddrake I found what the default driver for my sound card is. Which is snd-via82xx. It would be great if you could resolve this problem for me. One question though, was devries on the right path to solving my issue? Thanks very much. [formatted by spinynorman]

Ok I will post the contents in a few moments. Im in Winxp right now so. Unfortunatly I already deleted the files. If you look at my last post of my other topic, it says which files I had deleted. Is there a way to get it back if I need it? If I don't hear a response from you soon, I will go ahead and start a new topic in Hardware. Thanks.

http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=17930&st=15 is the topic I have been working on. The files I was trying to delete was in apost from devries on the second page.

I was frustrated I have tried every suggestion you gave me devries. I check the PNP os option in the bios. It was set to no. I deleted the OSS modules ac97_codec.gz.tar and via82cxxx_audio.gz.tar and set the system to use ALSA. I've tried both snd-via822 and via82cxxx_audio drivers. With snd-via822 I can get he alsa service to run, but I still can't open alsamixergui or hear any sounds whatsoever. With via82cxx_audio I get that error I was getting before.

Hello, I have been trying to get my sound card working for the past 48 hours. I have had a member named devries helping me along. Unfortunatly he had to go. He gave me this link http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@list...t/msg13884.html but not info on how to remove those files. I hope this is in the right forum because I figured that removing the files would be software related. I am a complete newbie to linux and i'm trying to learn. I would appreciate any help. Thank you.

Sorry about the long wait. My computer had shutdown by itself and KDE reset the font to the crappy spaced sans, which is hard to read for me. Anywho, I managed to get into the log using the konsole with root, like you told me too. I got this: Aug 24 16:29:28 localhost alsa: succeeded Aug 24 16:29:31 localhost alsactl: alsactl: load_state:1134: Aug 24 16:29:31 localhost alsactl: No soundcards found... Aug 24 16:29:31 localhost sound: Setting mixer settings failed Hope that helps.

IT says I donn't have permission to view the file. How do I get into it with root?

I restarted and went into verbose mode. I saw alsa start up for via82xxx with OK beside it but then under it something failed. It said something about no sound card found. It was too fast for me to read.