NBN Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 (edited) Hi, i got this slight problem involving my soundblaster LIVE! 5.1 soundcard, it doesnt play any sound and Totem crashs when i try to run a soundfile! currently im using the EMU10k1X driver since thats the only one that the Kmixer responds to, and yes i have thus unmuted it. It still doesnt work! Any help on this? Thanks in advance. -NBN- P.S. running the 9.2 version of Mandrake. Edited December 7, 2003 by NBN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 Don't know if this will help but here goes, If your running KDE, go into KDE's control center --> Sound --> Sound System --> and see it aRTs is checked and test your sound there. That one sound file could be bad (or don't have proper codec) and causing the crash ??? Oh, and WELCOME aboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NBN Posted December 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 its not only Totem, its everything. Chronium, Tux Racer... EVERYTHING soundbased doesnt work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 You using KDE's desktop and a little info on how you installed (was this an upgrade?) may help here greatly. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 There's three main possabilities here. 1. Your soundblaster is defective. This is more possible than you might think, things die, and since the Live series has been out a while now I suspect your soundcard may be few years old. 2. If you're confident that your soundcard is good, the next most likely thing is that there was problem during the instalation. 3. The last possability is that you have some sort of program running that is causing a conflct. You can kill all arts related software at once from the console, though suddenly the comand escapes me, somebodyhelp me out here? In any case, that sound card IS supported and that driver IS the right one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kuchwas Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 3. The last possability is that you have some sort of program running that is causing a conflct. You can kill all arts related software at once from the console, though suddenly the comand escapes me, somebodyhelp me out here? killall -15 artsd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NBN Posted December 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 (edited) First thing off. Im completly new to linux, i downloaded the 3 isos for mandrake 9.2 (FiveStar) a week ago. Im switcing a bit between GNOME KDE and WindowMaker, none of them produces sound. T'is no upgrade, its a fresh install, i partitioned my disk the way mandrake is able to avoid formatting my Winblows partition (im going completly off windows, but first when Mandrake works completly) I took every single package that i could press on, what the hell am i s'posed to do with my 180 gb, now that i dont download vidios or music? Tried the killall commando, didnt work. Oh, and my soundblaster soundcard and everything works wonders in windows, every now and then i open up windows not to play games but to listen to one of my cd's while chatting over MSN, which i now normally do using Kmess. Or i surf the net. I'll come up with a longer list of specs when i get back from school. Cheer -NBN- Edited December 8, 2003 by NBN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NBN Posted December 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 Damnit, couldnt find the document with the specs... Heres from memory: Its a Dell Dimension 8600. Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz. 1024 duel DDR ram. SBLive! 5.1 soundcard. (as indicated) Radeon 9700 graphics card. 180 gig maxtor harddisk. Altec Lansing 5.1 sound. Cant remember more right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 ah....2 soundcards. Is the other an onboard? Is it off in the bios? i'm not on linux rt now, and I don't have an sblive. there's no snd (alsa) prefix to your post above with EMU10k1X. Even though alsa is he default, what is the exact, case sensitive module/driver running for your card? As root do lsmod and post the result. Whether oss or alsa is what is being used, makes a big diff on how to get sound going. Also post /etc/modules.conf. There may not even be an oss for sblive, like I said I don't have one. BUT, whether there is or not, more details are needed. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kuchwas Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 ah....2 soundcards. Is the other an onboard? Is it off in the bios?i'm not on linux rt now, and I don't have an sblive. The "Altec Lansing 5.1 sound" is speakers; same ones I have. I missed the 2 sound cards part. SB Live 5.1 is one, what is the other? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NBN Posted December 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 (edited) I disabled the intregrated soundcard and the pc speakers when they tried to coop on an infernal assualt on my ears.. that is, when i tried to play Dom Andre by Kent and the Totem player thought the pc speakers was great for stereo. I still wonder how the hell it managed to, but then again, its linux... When that OS wants something done, it doesnt give you the blue error screen of doom.... You got to give it points for TRYING. About lsmod, i'll update this post on the issure, right now im logged in with my "fool-proof" user -NBN- ***UPDATE FIELD*** okay, here we go! root! Jack in! Execute lsmod! Module Size Used by Tainted: P sr_mod 19384 0 (autoclean) (unused) floppy 55932 0 (autoclean) fglrx 190696 129 snd-seq-midi 5056 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-emu10k1-synth 5276 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-emux-synth 31900 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1-synth] snd-seq-midi-emul 6924 0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth] snd-seq-virmidi 4588 0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth] snd-seq-oss 32000 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 6080 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 42544 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth snd-seq-midi-emul snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss 43652 0 snd-mixer-oss 14200 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-emu10k1 70948 0 [snd-emu10k1-synth] snd-pcm 79588 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1] snd-timer 18436 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-page-alloc 9044 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi 17760 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-emu10k1] snd-util-mem 3040 0 [snd-emux-synth snd-emu10k1] snd-seq-device 5832 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emu10k1-synth snd-emux-synth snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] snd-hwdep 6304 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-ac97-codec 45720 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd 41380 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-util-mem snd-seq-device snd-hwdep snd-ac97-codec] soundcore 6340 0 [snd] af_packet 14856 1 (autoclean) e100 52776 1 (autoclean) ntfs 77292 1 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-15 4060 2 (autoclean) nls_cp850 4284 1 (autoclean) vfat 11820 1 (autoclean) fat 38040 0 (autoclean) [vfat] supermount 84032 2 (autoclean) ide-cd 33956 0 cdrom 32608 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] ide-scsi 11376 0 scsi_mod 106176 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi] ehci-hcd 19212 0 (unused) usb-uhci 25136 0 (unused) usbcore 74988 1 [ehci-hcd usb-uhci] rtc 9004 0 (autoclean) ext3 60048 2 jbd 39264 2 [ext3] You gotta say, Megaman Battlenetwork spoiled me I belived you wanted my modules.conf, here it is. -NBN- modules.conf Edited December 8, 2003 by NBN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 is it me, or is the snd mod not loaded? Soundcore is...snd is not. This happened to someone last week. As root modprobe snd I don't know much about sblive but shouldn't above snd-intel8x0 be removed from modules.conf? anyone? it doesn't appear to be loaded. #comment it out save the file then test sound Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NBN Posted December 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 howta load and howta remove, im a windows migrate and i have only been in this wonderfull country of yours for a week, mostly trying to get my Radeon card working, which happened recently. I'll run the command and report back. -NBN- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NBN Posted December 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 i runned modprobe snd absolutly nothing happened, not a single thing. afterwards i retried the sound. No progress. I'll go to bed now and read a little in a book, feel free to come with as many solutions you like, even if others has posted, please dont wait for my respond since i need all the ideas i can get. 'night -NBN- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 i runned modprobe sndabsolutly nothing happened, not a single thing. that means it loaded. :D doing lsmod should show an snd. All those snd-<name> are useles w/o snd. try to log out and back in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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