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ares84

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Saturday, January 31st 2004, 6:17am

Sound Card Problems in Mandrake Linux

I just installed mandrake on my older hp pavilion and i can't get the sound card to work propertly. I checked hard drake and it comes up:
Vendor: Conexant Systems

Bus: PCI

Bus identification: 127a:4310:1235:4310

Location on the bus: 0:e:0

Description: 123456 Master Riptide PCI Audio Device

Module: unknown

Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO

And it wont let me run the config tool.

If somebody could help me i really appreciate it.
Thanks
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Sunday, February 1st 2004, 11:15pm

When you say it's not working properly, do you mean there's no sound? Check if it's not muted by default.
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Thursday, February 5th 2004, 9:04pm

I checked that it wasn't muted. Plus whenever i go into any of the media players i have it tells me that there is no audio output available.

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Sunday, February 8th 2004, 5:15am

I get that, but only if I try playing two media players at the same time, or when I kill a player that has frozen, and then try play sound again. I think that when I use Xkill on a player, it also kills the sound daemon. Restarting X works for me though, although I have no idea why resarting X, which is for graphics, would bring back sound.
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Sunday, February 8th 2004, 11:00am

killing X kills the processes which goes with it.

Kenneth - try killing the processes which rely on the soundserver such as

[code:1]
killall artsd
killall aplay
killall esd
[/code:1]

ares84 - have you installed the sound packages from mandrake?
open up kpackage, or throw in CD1 of mandrake, and do a search for "sound". Install the packages which you think are appropriate.

Secondly, check to see that the soundserver is initiallised at boot. Do this by opening up mandrake control centre (mcc at terminal window), and go to the System Services. Check the sound is enabled.

Post back with results, and if any, all error messages you get by running your media player in the terminal window.

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