Sunwatcher Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 I've installed Mandriva Powerpack 2008.0 on an old laptop. Everything is working well, but I cannot get the sound to work. In the control center, the hardware shows as installed with the maestro3 driver, but there is no sound, and I am unable to change drivers in the control center. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Have you checked the volume levels to make sure it's not muted or turned down low? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunwatcher Posted December 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 (edited) Have you checked the volume levels to make sure it's not muted or turned down low? Yes, volume is fine, both in the volume control software and in the manual switch on the laptop. Still no sound. If I go to System>Preferences>Sound I see two devices listed; ESS Allegro PCI (Alsa mixer) and ESS Technology ESS1988 (OSS Mixer). In MCC I see "ES1988 Allegro-1" under soundcard. Something weird happened. I shut the computer down and got the shutdown sound, but there is nothing when I reboot. I will try again to see if it does it again. >>No, can't recreate the sound on shutdown. Edited December 29, 2009 by Sunwatcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 I'd have a go at running alsaconf from the command line as root to see if you can get it to play ball and see if there are some other options to configure in terms of sound card. Do: su (enter root password when prompted) alsaconf and then go through and see what you can configure. Perhaps a restart after this might help and if not, and there were more than one card listed in alsaconf, try all combinations and see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunwatcher Posted December 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2009 I'd have a go at running alsaconf from the command line as root to see if you can get it to play ball and see if there are some other options to configure in terms of sound card. Do: su (enter root password when prompted) alsaconf and then go through and see what you can configure. Perhaps a restart after this might help and if not, and there were more than one card listed in alsaconf, try all combinations and see what happens. Thank you Ian! That worked. Many thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 30, 2009 Report Share Posted December 30, 2009 Glad it sorted you out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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