Guest PrimaryCanary Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 Greeting Forum, I have a seemingly simple problem but I cannot seem to find the answer. I have a computer running Mandrake 10. Installed is a SoundBlaster PCI sound card and an onboard sound card. My speakers are attached to the better SoundBlaster card, however I do not have any sound. I believe the problem is that linux configured the default sound card to be the onboard card. So I disabled the card via BIOS and restarted. When KDE started, it stayed at a blue screen with the large x-cursor for quite some time, I didn't time it, but finally KDE initialized. I signed onto Gaim and walla I had sound, but everything in the desktop was painfully sluggish. I tried to open a virtual terminal and took an amazingly long time. So I decided to restart using the equivalent of start->shutdown. But the X Server hung up and I had to log in as root on another tty terminal (CTRL + F1 I believe) to shutdown the computer. My question is, through linux, how do I select the default sound card? In windows I had to do the same thing, I would have to go to Control Panel->Sounds and there was a drop down list where I could select which sound card to make the default. Anyone have any ideas? Linux found both cards and has drivers installed for both because in Mandrake Control Center under hardware I have the following listed under sound Vendor: Creative Labs Alternative drivers: snd-ens1371 Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1274:1371 Location on the bus: 0:a:0 Description: Sound Blaster AudioPCI64V/AudioPCI128 Module: es1371 Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO and then I have Vendor: VIA Technologies Alternative drivers: via82cxxx_audio Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1106:3059 Location on the bus: 0:11:5 Description: VT8233 [AC97 Audio Controller] Module: snd-via82xx Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO Anyone have any ideas? Any help is greatly appreciated. -Primary Canary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PrimaryCanary Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 Just to let everyone know I'm not a jerk I did search the forum for multiple sound cards and there were two pages returned but neither answered my question but alas, i read the first page of this forum and I might have found the answer Sorry for the double post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PrimaryCanary Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 (edited) Ok Now that I've wasted a lot of forum space, I found the answer by reading artic's reply to this post I launched kcontrol from a virtual terminal and after I was done playing with the GUI menu, I found a bunch of errors in the console window. It seems that ALSA hadn't been installed, or parts of it were missing. So I restarted, and disabled my onboard card via BIOS again, and this time when I restarted, when the hardware wizard came up during boot, I selected the ALSA driver for my SoundBlaster Card. This prompted me for CD1 of the mandrake install discs, packages were installed, and low and behold, I HAVE SOUND! Sorry for the double post, and THANKS for the indirect help! - Primary Canary Edited July 19, 2004 by PrimaryCanary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 Welcome to the board - and well done... B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 I found the answer by reading artic's reply to this post I launched kcontrol what's that, pussycat? it redirects me to microsoft. i don't think i am working for those guys.. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PrimaryCanary Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 my mistake, I accidently put two http:// in the link the post that I found my answer was located Here Sorry about the confusion. I guess the reason it redirected you to microsoft was because whatever browser you were using couldn't resolve the http:// domain and I'm guessing you were on a win32 platform and it defaulted to the microsoft page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 (edited) I'm guessing you were on a win32 platform and it defaulted to the microsoft page negative! :) I kicked my last windows partition several months ago. Edited July 19, 2004 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PrimaryCanary Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 I'm guessing you were on a win32 platform and it defaulted to the microsoft page negative! :) I kicked my last windows partition several months ago. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's interesting, which browser were you using? I'm still dual booting XP and Mandrake 10, and on Firefox 9.2 for XP the url http://http://slashdot.org redirects me to http://www.microsoft.com/, I must try this on Firefox for Mandrake. Do the Gods conspire against us? That'd be an interesting caveat. I'm off to try this now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 i always got redirected, and it didn´t matter if i used firefox, mozilla or konqi. did microsoft buy mandrake recently? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted July 21, 2004 Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 Strange... Could it be that Microsoft, foreseeing this kind of mistake, bought the "http" domain name? Then http://http refer to the web server (http:// protocol) at URL "http". As you know, it is possible to specify a port after ":". I've just tried "http://www.google.fr:/" and it led me to google.fr web site. So I guess it is valid writing, and in case nothing is specified after ":", the default port is used. Besides, double // are accepted as a single on on all web servers. So http://http://anything would mean: "/anything" on server "http" using the Web (http://) protocol on default port (ie: 80). And any /anything URL on this server would get redirected to microsoft... What do you think? Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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