Re: mdv on phenom quad core

On Tuesday 02 February 2010, Jim Beard wrote:
>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.
>
Connection refused.

>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.

I'll give that a shot tomorrow, Jim. Thank you.

>This may do nothing for your case, but the above is in many cases
>sufficient.
>
>Cheers!
>
>jim b.
>


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