Sound.....Again....

[bosco]

Can someone please tell me why something as basic as sound is so hard to configure or even get help with in the Installation/User guides of Linux?
I had a Problem getting sound out of Red Hat.
Now Iv just installed Mandrake 8.1 and guess what......No Sound.
Is there a configure your sound 101 somewhere? I would think that help with something like this would be in the help files.....cause if it is.......Im missing it.
Theres a million pages on how to customize your desktop but I can't find a thing on configuring sound.....
help please.

[slimbim]

what kind of sound card do you have?

I have had problems with sound in Redhat but Mandrake worked fine for me.

[bosco]

Follow this:
I installed Mandrake 8.1 on two computers. one at home and one at work. Both have no sound(working).

Mandy at home: sees an Ensoniq card but no sound.[Card: Ensoniq Wavetable]. Is there something Im missing? Do you have to turn the sound on somewhere? In HardDrake it runs a sample sound but I don't hear anything. I don't even know where or if there is a volume control.

Mandy at work: Dosen't even see the sound card.Card: [(ESS) ES1688 AudioDrive]. Older sound card. how do I manually set it up? Iv ran HardDrake a bunch of times but it still dosen't see it. I even turned off plug-n-play in the bios like the help(yea right) files suggested.
They even have an example in the help files and guess what sound card they are detecting. AN ESS CARD!!

I had RedHat 6.2 on both of these computers and Had no sound problems.

[OOPS!]

Yeah I know what you mean. I can never get my sound card to work with HardDrake either. I always use sndconfig. It is a better utility IMHO. Try that. It is included with Mandy.


OOPS!

[bosco]

Originally posted by OOPS! I always use sndconfig

sndconfig was the first thing I tried. No dice. Im still trying...
Linux is so much better than Windows....cough..cough...

[bosco]

Mandy at home:
I ran harddrake, It sees the sound card(Insoniq ES1370(PCI). I run the configuration tool. Hit ok. I turn the volume all the way up. I hear the sample(very low). Ok, there's sound but i can hardly hear it. I can even get a CD to play(very low) with the volume on the x-mulitmedia system all the way up.
Went to control center. Looked at: Audio IO slave, MIDI, Sound Server& System Bell and no volume controls.

Clicked on sound=
Installed Device: Type 10:ALSA emulation
Card Config: No Sound Cards
Audio Devices: Not enabled in config
Synth Devices: Not enabled in config
MIDI Devices: Not enabled in config
Mixers: Not enabled in config

Does Mandy have desktop sounds? Im just looking for the basics right now.
*No onboard sound on either of them.*
The installation at home is minimal. 1Gig HD. Everything couldn't be installed but the sound should work...right?

Turned up the mixer volume. Same thing. Low sound

[bosco]

home machine:
OK, advice from a Linux forum was to run from x-term as root: chmod 0666 /dev/mix* or chmod 0666 /dev/dsp*
It took chmod 0666 /dev/dsp*
Now CD's play at a normal level but everything else is low. And what I mean by everything else is the harddrake sample sound. Are there default desktop sounds? And If there is do you have to activate them?

[bosco]

Machine at work:
I swapped sound cards, put a creative snd card in place of the ESS card. Mandy sees this card. Still same problem, but no sound at all on this one. Harddrake can't configure it. Im have been doing all of this from KDE. I log in as root In GNOME. Run sndconfig from the x-term. It configures it and the sample sound is at normal volume. Now Iv got sound. I log out and back in(gnome). I still have sound. I log out and back in(kde). No sound. I log in as a user In KDE or GNOME and I have sound. I don't get it. Now sound works all the time except when logged in as root using KDE.
sndconfig did not work in KDE. It had to be run from GNOME. Is this common?

The machine at home is going to get a complete reinstall when i get a bigger HD. Minimal install 1Gig HD. GNOME ws not installed. No room.
Thanks for the help everyone.

[OOPS!]

Here's a thought, at the CLI type artsd. See if that starts your artsound server. If it doesn't, type artsd -l0 -F10 -S4096. That should give some indication as to what might be going on.

OOPS!