CaptainFreedom

I'm pretty sure I use ALSA drivers. I tried all the things on the Skype forum. Permissions of /dev/dsp are correct. I use "artsdsp -m skype". and checked that full duplex was set and the capture channel was off. But still the microphone doesn't work. The most annoying thing is both Audacity and skype crash and that seems to lock out the sound card. I have to reboot the PC every time. Is there any easier way to release the soundcard after Audacity has crashed?

Hi, I'm trying to get Skype to work on a PC with NForce2 and Mandrake 10.1 official. The microphone doesn't output any sound when I call. It's quite expensive testing this ringing my home phone, so I'm trying testing by recording into Audicity. Audicity doesn't record anything when I press the record button - you should see the time line moving to the right, but it just sticks to the same place then when I press stop it hangs and no other appilcation can access the sound card until I reboot the PC again. I once got this to work by messing around with KMix, but it won't work any more. Currently I have the green led above the microphone input setting on and the red led below off and both the green and red leds of the capture input thingy on. Can anyone help with this? thanks, Ed

I tried looking at documentation of ALSA. Still none the wiser to what the red LEDs do.

Hi, I was trying to get the microphone to record on my PC, unfortunately the UI for Kmix is extreemly confusing and I could not find any documentation for the settings on the Input tab, nor the advanced settings. I am using KDE 3.2. On the Input tab there is a series of sliders with a green led above and a red led below. By experimenting I was able to figure out that the green led above the microphone selects that input as a source, but this alone does not enable it. I had to select and unselect all the green leds and all the red leds of each input source. I don't really understand how I got it working, so if anyone could explain it I would be grateful. Thanks, Ed

Yep, it's now working nice in the Gimp. I'm planning on doing a lot of graphic design type work. This makes my job a whole lot easier. cheers, Ed

Thanks for you help, VeeBurg. I finally got it working!!! It was a driver problem in the end. You need the latest linuxwacom drivers to get Intuos3 working. However, the drivers have a nasty bug: you get compilor errors ... missing functions in wacom.c I opened the 2.6.9 wacom.c file and copied the functions from there to the 2.6.9 wacom.c Then just follow all the other instructions on linuxwacom site. I pasted the xorg.conf settings, but it's important to remove the line Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" # SERIAL ONLY and change "/dev/input/event0" to the appropiate device. Christ, that was by far the most difficult thing I had to install on linux so far!

Okay, I tried modprobe wacom, with another fresh install of Mandrake. It doesn't hang this time, but it doesn't detect the tablet either. pr 24 00:35:19 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver wacom Apr 24 00:35:19 localhost kernel: drivers/usb/input/wacom.c: v1.30:USB Wacom Graphire and Wacom Intuos tablet driver Apr 24 00:35:27 localhost kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: wakeup Apr 24 00:35:28 localhost kernel: usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using address 2 Apr 24 00:35:28 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hiddev Apr 24 00:35:28 localhost kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: ctrl urb status -32 received Apr 24 00:35:28 localhost last message repeated 2 times Apr 24 00:35:38 localhost kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: ctrl urb status -2 received Apr 24 00:35:38 localhost kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: usb_submit_urb(ctrl) failed When I was trying to install Mandrake I had to unplug the device or the installation program itself would hang. Also hangs detecting new hardware if you have it plugged in when you boot up. Which leads me to think that there is something seriously wrong with that driver. Maybe its because the Intuos3 is a new tablet and they haven't updated the driver for that yet. Also could be because I have a nForce2 PC.

I put usbmouse in the blacklist on a fresh install of Mandrake 10.1. Still same problem. Hangs on boot at "mount USB filesystem". If I do modprobe wacom it also hangs, and I can't even shut down the system afterwards. I don't see any relevant error messages in /var/log/messages

I used to use a USB mouse, but now only use a PS2 mouse. Here is my /etc/X11/XF86Config: # File generated by XFdrake. # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** Section "Files" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort) #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "es" Option "XkbOptions" "" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Generic" ModelName "Flat Panel 1280x1024" HorizSync 31.5-67 VertRefresh 50-75 # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # Dell D800 and few Inspiron (16/10) 1280x800 ModeLine "1280x800" 147.89 1280 1376 1512 1744 800 801 804 848 # Dell D800 and few Inspiron (16/10) 1680x1050 ModeLine "1680x1050" 214.51 1680 1800 1984 2288 1050 1051 1054 1103 # Dell D800 and few Inspiron (16/10) 1920x1200 ModeLine "1920x1200" 230 1920 1936 2096 2528 1200 1201 1204 1250 +HSync +VSync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corp." BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)" Driver "nvidia" Option "DPMS" Option "IgnoreEDID" "1" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" Screen "screen1" EndSection However, the fact that Mandrake won't even boot when the tablet is plugged in makes me think that the problem is more related to driver problems.

I tried doing modprobe -r usbmouse but when I do modprobe wacom it just hangs likewise if I boot up with the tablet plugged in it will hang at "detecting new hardware" Are you sure Mandrake specifically supports the *Intuos3* (as opposed to other models)?... I got the impression from the linuxwacom site that it doesn't.

Hi, I have a Intuos3 tablet. I understand that this doesn't work with Mandrake 10.1, is that true? I tried installing the latest drivers at http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/ (using ./configure --enable-hid --enable-usbmouse --enable-mousedev --enable-evdev --with-kernel=/usr/src/linux) , but I get following error: LD /home/lefty/linuxwacom-0.6.6/src/2.6.8/built-in.o CC [M] /home/lefty/linuxwacom-0.6.6/src/2.6.8/hid-core.o CC [M] /home/lefty/linuxwacom-0.6.6/src/2.6.8/hiddev.o CC [M] /home/lefty/linuxwacom-0.6.6/src/2.6.8/hid-input.o CC [M] /home/lefty/linuxwacom-0.6.6/src/2.6.8/pid.o CC [M] /home/lefty/linuxwacom-0.6.6/src/2.6.8/hid-lgff.o /home/lefty/linuxwacom-0.6.6/src/2.6.8/hid-lgff.c:40:24: fixp-arith.h: No such file or directory /home/lefty/linuxwacom-0.6.6/src/2.6.8/hid-lgff.c: In function `hid_lgff_timer': /home/lefty/linuxwacom-0.6.6/src/2.6.8/hid-lgff.c:452: warning: implicit declaration of function `fixp_mult' /home/lefty/linuxwacom-0.6.6/src/2.6.8/hid-lgff.c:452: warning: implicit declaration of function `fixp_sin' /home/lefty/linuxwacom-0.6.6/src/2.6.8/hid-lgff.c:453: warning: implicit declaration of function `fixp_new16' /home/lefty/linuxwacom-0.6.6/src/2.6.8/hid-lgff.c:454: warning: implicit declaration of function `fixp_cos' make[5]: *** [/home/lefty/linuxwacom-0.6.6/src/2.6.8/hid-lgff.o] Error 1 make[4]: *** [_module_/home/lefty/linuxwacom-0.6.6/src/2.6.8] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-12mdk' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/lefty/linuxwacom-0.6.6/src/2.6.8' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/lefty/linuxwacom-0.6.6/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lefty/linuxwacom-0.6.6' make: *** [all] Error 2 I checked that the file does in fact exist: ls /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/input/fixp-arith.h /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/input/fixp-arith.h Anyone have any luck getting this device working on Mandrake?

I'm fairly sure my PC supports it. Hibernation works fine under Windows 2000. What I think is that when Mandrake detects that you are installing on a desktop it doesn't install the files required for suspend.

I tried to get the suspend to disk feature working without any luck. I tried issueing echo "disk" > /sys/power/state The screen goes black momentarily then returns to normal. Maybe the reason is that suspend to disk only works for laptops, is this true? I have Mandrake offical 10.1 and AMD, Nforce2 PC. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

I finally fixed the problem. What was confusing me was that Mandrake control center was showing my Fedore partition as mounted at "/" and it woundn't let me unmount it! So I had to manually edit fsab file and put the correct mount in and reboot. Then Mandrake had created a boot entry for fedora with the wrong image (/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdk) So I coped vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl and initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img from my origonal Fedore /boot to the Mandrake boot and set the image and initrd to point to these. This was just a guess, I really have no idea what any of this means, but now Fedora boots correctly, so I'm not complaining ;)

The problem is that I can't access my Fedore partition from Mandrake. I'm fairly sure the partition is not corrupted. I can boot into Fedora, but it can no longer access vfat partitions but I think this is caused by the first error - if lilo can't access the partion then I imagine that it won't be able to boot into the partition properly

Hi, I just installed Mandrake 10.1. It seemed to work quite well, except it screwed up my existing Fedora Core 1 partition. I asked for Mandrake to be installed on /dev/hda7. Fedora core was already on /dev/hda6. The boot loader says that Mandrake loads on hda7 and fedora on hda6. This is the entry for Fedora: Boot loader linux (/boot/vmlinuz) root: /dev/hda6 acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5 When I boot into Mandrake and call mount it shows the following: [root@localhost lefty]# mount /dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /mnt/floppy type supermount (rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850) /dev/hda1 on /mnt/win_c type ntfs (ro,umask=0,nls=iso8859-15) /dev/hda2 on /mnt/win_d type vfat (rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850) /dev/hda3 on /mnt/data type vfat (defaults) mount is showing Mandrake installed on hda6! the result is that there is no way to access my fedora partion from Mandrake. Anyone have any idea how to fix the problem? thanks, Ed