Sunsela Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 Hi, Please help me solve a sound issue with Ensoniq CT 5880 on Mandriva 10.1 that did not exist before I removed a KVM to share a monitor, mouse, and keyboard. Also being used was an adapter to use one set of speakers for the two different computers. Initially, upon installing Mandriva 10.1 equaled no sound w/ VIA 82xx onboard audio. Hours of googling, posting, and fiddling around with things OPs suggested were all in vain. The solution, months ago, was purchasing a new sound card. I am a non-technical, non-geek girl, but I'm determined to get this issued solved once and for all WITHOUT buying another sound card. Where do I begin? Please help me. Celeste Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 purchasing a new soundcard? Why? Generally speaking, both of those cards should work, depending on the specifics. what does lsmod and lspci -v say? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddmcse Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 i think you have a loose wire . . it worked on md 10 before you disconnect the kvm right ? this adapter thingy might be your issue . have a plain jane set of speakers? do programs appear to plain sounds i.e. play a music cd or mp3 . it's not clear to me when or how long the issue has been an issue see if playing a music cd works and then try and move the wire that plugs into the sound card Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 Hello Celeste. Welcome to a non-geek girl from a non-geek Great Grandfather x 3 and all here at the MUB. Those tiny audio jacks can be a real pain. Try cleaning the jack plugs with metholated spirits or pure alcohol and the push the plug fully in and out about a dozen times. Even rotate it a few times. It does not seem that the card is faulty. Can you get hold of an alternative cable to try between your speaker system and the computer. This would be your next most likely cause. Please let us know how you go so we can add if this does not solve the problem. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunsela Posted June 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 bvc, lsmod output: snd-seq-midi 6624 0 snd-seq-oss 31296 0 snd-seq-midi-event 6080 2 snd-seq-midi,snd-seq-oss snd-seq 47440 5 snd-seq-midi,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss 49480 0 snd-mixer-oss 17376 1 snd-pcm-oss snd-ens1371 18980 0 snd-rawmidi 19300 2 snd-seq-midi,snd-ens1371 snd-seq-device 6344 4 snd-seq-midi,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi snd-pcm 81800 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-ens1371 snd-timer 20356 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-page-alloc 7400 1 snd-pcm snd-ac97-codec 69392 1 snd-ens1371 gameport 3328 1 snd-ens1371 snd 46052 10 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-ens1371,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device, snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-ac97-codec soundcore 7008 1 snd lspci -v output: 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 04) Subsystem: Ensoniq Sound Blaster 16PCI 4.1ch Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17 I/O ports at d000 Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 As for purchasing a new sound card, believe me, I didn't want to, but that's the only soultion to having sound after the countless hours of researching and following suggestions from others didn't solve the issue. ddmcse, Using XMMS, it appears to be working but there is no sound. Also, there's no sound on music cds, system notifications, or when “testing sound.” This issue just happened (last couple of weeks) when I separated the computers. AussieJohn, Tried everything you suggested to no avail. I'm still without sound. Thanks for your replys. What else can be done to solve this issue? Celeste Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 Try running alsaconf, and see if this helps? From a command prompt, type su and supply root password. Then type alsaconf, and go through the config for your soundcard. On reboot of the system, your sound will be muted, you can use Kmix to unmute everything and set the volume levels. Try the test button after this, does it work? Check sound in other apps, such as games and Amarok, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 Open userdrake (root password needed) and check if your current user belongs to the "audio" group. If not, add him, logout completely and then log back in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunsela Posted June 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 Try running alsaconf, and see if this helps? From a command prompt, type su and supply root password. Then type alsaconf, and go through the config for your soundcard. On reboot of the system, your sound will be muted, you can use Kmix to unmute everything and set the volume levels. Try the test button after this, does it work? Check sound in other apps, such as games and Amarok, etc. ianw1974 Already tried this several times. There is no sound. modprobe.conf # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.6 --- options snd device_mode=0666 alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371 alias sound-slot-0 snd-ens1371 # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- Open userdrake (root password needed) and check if your current user belongs to the "audio" group. If not, add him, logout completely and then log back in. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> scarecrow This was already done. Thanks for your replies. Sunsela Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunsela Posted June 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 (edited) :woops: Where do I begin? This color-coded stuff can be bad sometimes. Green goes with green, right? Yeah, it does UNLESS you get ANOTHER soundcard that is not onboard. You guessed it. When hooking everything back up after separating the computers, I plugged the audio cable into the onboard place instead of down below where the other soundcard is. Guess you all know how I'm feeling right about now. :woops: Sunsela P.S. There is no sound for System Notifications or when booting up and shutting down. That's the way it was before and it's not important. Hopefully, that will be solved when I upgrade to LE2005 Edited June 13, 2005 by Sunsela Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieth Posted June 14, 2005 Report Share Posted June 14, 2005 Don't worry about it. It's happened to a lot of us. Kieth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 Good lord Celeste, you only made this mistake once so far. I made it 3 times before I finally remembered and had it stuck in my mind so you have no need to feel bad or embarrassed. No ma´am. Regarding System notification. Open KDE Control Centre ------->Sound ---------->Sound System -------->General and put a tick in Enable the Sound System. Click on the Hardware tab and put a tick in Full Duplex. Click on Apply and close out. Open a Konsole and type in kdesu konqueror and press Enter. Type your root password and press enter. This will open konqueror in root mode and when it does just type / in the address bar which will give you access to the partition system. Next, go into your /home then into your /account and click on View located at the top and select Show Hidden Files. Now click on the folder called /.kde then /share then /config i.e. /Home/*****/.kde/share/config. In there you will find a file called knotifyrc. Left click on it and it will open in Kwrite. You should see the following text :- [Misc] LastConfiguredApp=KDE System Notifications [startProgress] Arts Init=true KNotify Init=true Use Arts=true If it has false in any of the lines then change the words to true Save the changes, close out and relogin. This time you should have sounds. Please let me know if this helps. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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