Re: mdv on phenom quad core

On 02/02/2010 04:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I was just booted to 2010x64, and updated about 300 megs of stuff, then
> thought maybe I'd see if I could get any sound out of it with the hardware
> configurator.  First, I tried to switch it to using the emu10k1 since the
> card I desire to work is an Audigy2 Value, SB400.
>
> That called for downloading and installing an as10 package, which it did.
>
> And at some point, it also called for and installed the kde-pulse-alsa
> pluggin too.
>
> Then at the more or less main screen for this I selected the emu10k1 again,
> which brought up a list of channels apparently obtained from the card.
>
> So I selected one, then ran kmix and enabled everything, which of course make
> it wider than my 1680 screen, and then setected each of the channels in turn,
> but the only channel that made any noise was the spdif output!  And that had
> no volume control via any kmix slider, and somewhat overloaded my decent
> sounding but puny powered speaker system.  So I moved that one to the top of
> the list and hit apply.
>
> That was the last sound I heard.  I sent FF to cnn to see about listening to
> some news videos, but it never even made a motion to go get the video file
> itself although it would go get and redraw the player screen each time I
> selected a different story video.
>
> I went back to the hardware thingy, and tried to test the sound again, and it
> was gone, no channel worked, not even the spdif output.  And kmix still had
> no control, even over the muting/un-muting.  Not even a thump when clicking
> any of the mute boxes, which I left all unchecked.
>
> Trying to get aplay to play one of the numerous .ogg's sound effects
> installed, that was 100% no permissions, for either me or a sudo -i.
>
> Ditto for trying to run pavolume-control from the menu's, no permissions
> boxes pop up.
>
> Restarting, as root, /etc/init.d/sound reports nothing.
>
> Clues, rtfm's etc investigated, please advise on these two probably unrelated
> problems.

Any time pulseaudio is involved, the first thing you need to do 
is run pavucontrol and see if that does anything useful.

If no joy, the next thing is to go into mcc/Mandriva Linux 
Control Center to Hardware to  Sound Configuratin and disable 
pulseaudio.  Then log out and log in again.

This may do nothing for your case, but the above is in many cases 
sufficient.

Cheers!

jim b.



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