Audio problem.Forum: Multimedia Topic: Audio problem. started by: nswafford Posted by nswafford on Jan. 28 2005,19:51
Device: Sigmatel STAC 9750 AC97Dell Latitude D600 No sound. When I try and run sndconfig It fails autoconfiging and then gives a blank error. Can someone point me in the right direction.. Thx Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 29 2005,02:46
Go to the mydsl repository or use the myDSL gui.Download and install the alsadebs.dsl extension. Read the *.info file for further instructions. Posted by IndoorMoopsball on Mar. 11 2005,23:46
Hello, I just got a Dell Computer (precision 370) and the sound doesn't work in dsl. I am running off of the CD. I tried loading the alsadeb.dsl file but I didn't see a menu option under mydsl menu. I don't know if this is a rc1.0 issue, but I know I booted with the dsl alsa boot command, and I had loaded dsl-dpkg and gnu-utils first. I downloaded all of the files this afternoon.If it helps under windows the card claims to be a SoundMax integrated digital audio card, PCI bus 0, device 30, function2. Can alsadebs even handle this card? I also tried loading alsa using apt-get alsa, but I first had errors with /lib/modules/2.4.26/module* being symlinks, and after I fixed that with unknown symbols. thanks for any help. tronik tried on irc but thought I might be able to get an answer here. Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 12 2005,06:05
There should be a menu option for this package.Try re-downloading the extension. FYI, I use this extension to play sound for my Dell Poweredge 400SC and it uses "SoundMAX" integrated audio. I have never used it on a 370 and this motherboard is newer because it supports PCI-X but I would expect it to work fine. Posted by IndoorMoopsball on Mar. 12 2005,15:52
I re-downloaded it but still get no menu. Checked the md5sum. Loaded dsl-dpkg and gnu-utils first. I think there's a problem but everyone tells me no no, it's all working right for me. Why doesn't the menu option show up? I tried both the emelfm button and the mydsl-load command from a terminal window. No errors from either. Other dsl files make mydsl menu entries OK.Any ideas? Posted by clivesay on Mar. 12 2005,16:04
Is there an /opt/alsadebs directory in /opt? If so, look inside for the install script and run it from xterm. That will do the same thing as the menu. Not sure why you are having this issue. Chris Posted by IndoorMoopsball on Mar. 12 2005,22:12
There was an /opt/alsadebs directory, and I was able to run the script it contained. I tried the game barrage.dsl, but I got the error "No available audio device"Is there anything else I need to run? I didn't have the menu item, does it give you setup options like choosing the card if it isn't autodetected? when I ran the script I saw this error (nothing to do with no menu but maybe to do with no sound) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Setting up pciutils (2.1.9-4) ... Setting up knx-alsa (0.1-8) ... Preparing modules for alsa... Preparing master knoppix for alsa... depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.4.26/modules.dep for writing Setting up libgpmg1 (1.19.6-12) ... Setting up aumix (2.7-18) ... Preparing modules for alsa... Building card database.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 13 2005,05:27
Are you running the script as user "root"?Also, are you running from an hd install or a livecd/frugal/poorman's system? Posted by IndoorMoopsball on Mar. 14 2005,14:50
I'm running as user dsl and I'm running from the CD (no HD recognition, so no way to install to the hard drive).So far my experience on this brand new very good machine has been a complete cluster: no sound, no network card recognition, and no hard drive recognition. People told me "yeh it's there, look under the slot for the HD, Windows XP is no problem if your only reading from the drive. We'll, it is a problem, I only see a 0 for the name of the hard drive, and it says the drive is busy when I try to mount it under the slot. The network card config under the menu can't find any network card, but I know it works because I can use it now in XP. If the sound works, I can say I'll keep trying, hell, if one of those three worked I'd keep going. Is Dell trying to crush Linux by making the new machines incompatible with dsl? I've been quietly using dsl for about 4 months on my old machine, but it was too old and didn't handle some of the bigger apps. Thanks so much for the help. Sorry to vent, but I'm frustrated. Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 14 2005,17:16
If you have a Dell, your "Dell Utility Partition" is probably located at "hda1" and your Windows partition is located at "hda2"New Dell desktops come with SATA hard drives which are unsupported by DSL at the moment. Don't know about laptops, though. Posted by IndoorMoopsball on Mar. 14 2005,17:57
Thanks cbagger, knowing that I couldn't do it (and it wasn't just me) makes the hard drive problem easier to take. I'm assuming that this is the problem with my desktop unit. Why would they do such a crazy thing?Does anyone else get the "depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.4.26/modules.dep for writing" error? Could this have something to do with the hard drive? I would think this would always happen. I wish I had my old machine back now. Lesson learned: never give stuff away that still kinda works. |