devries Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 Maybe I was to quick :D From yet another of your post it seems like arts isn't working. In the KDE control center, sound & multimedia, soundsystem, make sure the sound system is activated. But ofcourse when you can't boot into Linux this isn't much of an option. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShineDesign Posted September 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 Alright, so I re-installed (even chose to format the entire disk and start from scratch). First boot...no audio again. Furthermore, all my applications installed (even from the mcc software section) don't show in my application meno on the desktop. Firefox won't show in the browser section also, I installed that to the default directory, as well as /usr/lib and /usr/share. Maybe with my higher-end hardware, linux just isn't the option for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted September 19, 2004 Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 Do 'update-menus -v' for the lost menu-items. As for sound, well you know what you did last time :) As for your hardware: Not everything is supported but most is. However, you may be right and some of your stuff is not supported by Linux. You seem to have a lot of problems and I doubt it can all be blamed on you :D. Anyway, if it's a hardware problem there are 2 solutions: wait for better supprt or buy a new soundcard and whatever you need. Yes I know there is a third solution but I won't be mentioning that. :D Have fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShineDesign Posted September 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 Thanks for the suggestiont! However, update-menus -v didn't do much of anything. All the newly installed software still will not show in the menu, even ones that mandrake installed from it's own cd. On the sound issue, I know how I got it to play CD's and whatnot, but I was never able to get it to play system sounds and application sounds. It shouldn't have a problem wth my soundcard, it's only a SB Live 5.1. I also have onboard sound which I've dissabled through the motherboard, but maybe I'll unplug the SB and try just the onboard It's weird though, when I booted with Knoppix, the system sounds played just fine. I don't know. The third suggestion....I've been using that for the past 10 years...I really don't want to have to be doing that anymore! hah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShineDesign Posted September 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 Turns out that even though my onboard audio was dissabled...linux still was trying to use it as the primary source. I took out my SB LIve 5.1 and re-enabled the onboard (which surprisingly turns out to be better...) and everything works great again. Though, I still can't get the mozilla firefox icon to be associated with the app...anyway to specify the icon through term? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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