Mandrake 9.2 No Sound

[jleach45]

I installed Mandrake 9.2 on a Laptop. It didn't detect the sound but I used sndconfig and configured it. I guess the problem is I don't get sound as user. What can I do?

[)BIG"B"Affleck]

Make sure your not muting it to begin with.

[Dani]

When you ran sndconfig, you heard Linus Torvalds welcome you to Linux? (or whatever message that is that plays?) Does root hear sound but other users don't?? I'm a bit confused what exactly the problem is.

[)BIG"B"Affleck]

I think what he is saying is (strickly assuming) that my soundcard is not working. If thats the case'

• 
  
• Go to your Mandrake Control Centre:
• Hardware
  
• HardDrake lists and help you to set up your hardware.
• Click on your soundcard
• Click on: Run config tool
• Then choose the driver: i810_audio ect....

[jleach45]

When I installed Mandrake it din't detect my soundcard. I used sndconfig and yes I heard the sound samp;e. I went into KDE System Notification because you can test the sound. I tried to test it but no sound was heard. I checked aumix and nothing seems to be muted, Mandrake supports the integrated sound, it's a Crystal audio cs423x. Thanks

[)BIG"B"Affleck]

What was the brand of that laptop?
Resource: http://tuxmobil.org/sound_linux.html

[jleach45]

IBM Thinkpad 560X, PII233mhz,64MMB Ram. 4.0GB hard drive. Mandrake detected everything but sound.

[fsn812]

Does mandrake have a sound server that needs to be started? Also, check your aumix settings to insure they are not getting reset (Main, PCM...) to zero when you log out.

[jleach45]

Aumix doesn't get reset to 0, I have checked it. If it has one, how do I initialize the sound server? Thanks

[)BIG"B"Affleck]

(suggestion)Give everyone read and write presmission on

/dev/sound/dsp

Make sure the permissions and ownership are all setup right erego:

Uranus:~ $ ll /dev/dsp*
lrwxrwxrwx	1 root	 root			 4:20 /dev/dsp ->
/dev/dsp0
crw-rw----	1 root	 audio	 4:20 /dev/dsp0
crw-rw----	1 root	 audio	 4:20 /dev/dsp1
crw-rw----	1 root	 audio	 4:20 /dev/dsp2
crw-rw----	1 root	 audio	 4:20 /dev/dsp3

[Dominick]

lsmod - lists the kernel modules (specifcally the sound modules)
modprobe - will add kernel modules
rmmod will remove kernel modules
modinfo will tell you what the purpose of a module is

treat playing with kernel modules with kid gloves. Dont play around. Remove what you have to and dont go overboard.

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