Guest NewMDKguy2004 Posted April 28, 2004 Report Share Posted April 28, 2004 hey guys, i have an aureal au8810 soundcard. im farely new to mandrake, but whenever i use a program that requires sound, it either doesn't work or just crashes. Windows is able to use it, but Linux can't. Im using the pre-installed alsa, and during boot-up it *says* it loads fine. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mousematt Posted April 28, 2004 Report Share Posted April 28, 2004 what program are you trying to load? is it XMMS? Stupidly, XMMS still defaults to use the OSS Sound System: which isnt installed - hence no sound. In the case of XMMS - change the Output plugin it to ALSA in the Preferences menu. That solved the problem on a number of different machines. Although, noen of them had your exact sound card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pendejerto Posted April 28, 2004 Report Share Posted April 28, 2004 also, what i did was to turn off the optical output in kmix, that solved the problem, but now everytime that i reboot, i have to do that again and again. I have a audigy 2 zs soundcard, hope this helps... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NewMDKguy2004 Posted April 29, 2004 Report Share Posted April 29, 2004 yeah, i should probably mention this is my first time using a linux GUI, im used to be a normal user with a konsole. Im using totem movie player, i haven't gotten around installing XMMS yet. What should i do exactly (newbie) i need almost exact instructions. thanks! richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NewMDKguy2004 Posted April 29, 2004 Report Share Posted April 29, 2004 installed XMMS, but oddly there is no option for an other output besides OSS driver... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mousematt Posted April 29, 2004 Report Share Posted April 29, 2004 Go to "Configure your Desktop" > Under Sound > Sound System Check that its enabled in the General tab Check that Autodetect or Alsa are selected in the Hardware tab. Have a fiddle here - do you get sound? Remember to close your sound app - XMMS or whatever it is - between goes... Also: I realised my error. XMMS-alsa is a seperate package in 10.0CE. I'd recommend you install that as well. Third disk I think. mousematt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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