Guest Airborne Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 Hi after i installed linux mandrake 10 on my computer with dual boot. i cant get any sound from my sound cards. on WXP am i getting sound. i got the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and a sound card in my motherboard. when i have choosen the standard drivers for hose cards, and choose a song theplayer is starting playing of the file but no sound, and yes my speakers are on :P on some other players i get some errors. movies are also working fine. on system>configuration>KDE>sound>sound(something) :P the top thing is marked. i have searched whole over. cant find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 17, 2004 Report Share Posted July 17, 2004 (edited) Hi airborne. First of all a general note: just browse through the archives (use search function) and you will find many similar topics that might help. So for future problems, try to use the info, given in other posts. ;) Nonetheless, I will give you some possible answers to your problem: a ) you system is still on mute-sound. open "kmix" (this can be done e.g. via konsole, simply typing: kmix) and enable all sounds on your system. b ) your sound architecture is wrong. open "kcontrol", go to "sounds", "sound-server", then in the right window select the "hardware" tab and change the sound architecture from e.g. OSS to ALSA (the most common one). c ) if you don't hear anything, using xmms, open the options-dialogue of xmms and change sound-output from OSS to ALSA. I hope this does the job. :) Edited July 17, 2004 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Airborne Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 often when i open kmix. i get. someting like a crash thing showing up. all the time. i have reinstalled to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 what sound architecture do you have set as default? Auto? ALSA? OSS? other? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Airborne Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 i have chosen= (advanced linux sound archtechture)- is that ALSA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanrev Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 when I type [ user]$ kmix I get the answer : ERROR: KMix : impossible de trouver le mixeur. Veuillez vérifier que la carte son est installée et que le pilote de la carte est chargé. We really need a good tutorial about how to check & fix our sounds problems thanks for your answer I couldn't find any recent tutorial on this matter help please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanrev Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 how do I check my sound card and fix the bugs ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 Information and configuration of the he soundcard happens in the Mandrake Control Center. I don't know the French or English links so yust look at the attachment. You can change the module (driver) there. Make sure you don't have any application using the driver (like kmix or another mixer, music player etc etc) open. ALSA can be stopped or started as a service (also make sure no mixer is open). It can be done in a console or in MCC but console is easiest for me to explain :) Log in as root ant type: /etc/init.d/alsa status (that will show if alsa is running or not). If it's not running do:/ etc/init.d/alsa start Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 (edited) i have chosen= (advanced linux sound archtechture)- is that ALSA? Yepp! :D when I type [ user]$ kmix I get the answer : ERROR: KMix : impossible de trouver le mixeur. Veuillez vérifier que la carte son est installée et que le pilote de la carte est chargé. do you have KDE installed on your box? if not, then you can use alternative sound-apps (e.g. gnome-audiocontrols, which can be found via gnome-menu or the panel (just search for the loudspeaker icon and right click on it, selecting "preferences")). If you have KDE installed, but not kmix, you can install it from your cds via mcc or via konsole, typing "urpmi -a kmix". Edited July 19, 2004 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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