I know that you guys are tired of hearing about this, but my sound when I play my DVD's or in the Gnome desktop is not working. I can play a regular CD and it works beautiful, I can see my DVD video, no audio though. I tried Ogle, VideoLan. I'm using Mandrake 8.2 with Gnome 1.4 desktop. The sound card is a Yamaha YMF-754 [DS-1E Audio Controller]. I am very new to Linux like as in the past 2 days I have just got it installed. I fumbled through some directions about ALSA drivers, and I guess that is what is making my CD play now, but nothing else. Any Ideas. Hearing my DVD would be a plus !!

One more thing, I guess its due to my laptop, but it plays CDs on its own even when the laptop is off. I suppose it has something to do with the toshiba laptop. So in a nutshell, I have NO sound at all, everything else works perfect.

-Never going back to Windows

-Matt

I have also did the modprobe ymfpci and it reports no such device
modprobe: insmod ymfpci failed

at least you can see your dvds, one time I had ogle working, then nothing, and xine locks up my whole laptop.....

What model of toshiba do you have?

Can help if you post the output of dmesg and lsmod.

I think this link have been posted before, anyway, this is:

http://www.linux-laptop.net/

" These mini-HOWTO style documents describe setup and configuration of Linux on specific brands of notebooks "



I always have used mplayer. It can play almost all formats and the last version can even play some realvideo and quicktime files
(These are in the first stage of development).

If the laptop can play cds while being off then alsa (and linux) isn't related to it.

All is well now. I ditched the Mandrake 8.2 and went with Red Hat 7.3 using KDE 3.0.1 desktop. Runs smooth, it detected all hardware and I even got Ogle running on it smoothly for my DVDs. Not bad for a new guy. I did have a couple of questions. First. it says that Get local_host: hostname 'dhcppc2' bad. I'm trying to share a printer that is connected to a Win XP box using samba. I can see all shares on XP it just throws that error I wrote above. And one more thing, I changed my /etc/inittab file to have the 5 listed at the end of the file to boot up and login graphically but it does not do. Any ideas? Sorry for such a long post.

Matt