Sound - What is is, how does it work, and why will it NOT work at the same time?
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Sound - What is is, how does it work, and why will it NOT work at the same time?
So here we go agin
Ya know, i learn more things about linux by just asking simple questions on LQ then i do reading TONS of other peoples questions.
I recently bought a new laptop, installed mandriva on it. I got the wifi working (still a little wierd) with an openHal snapshot. All kinds of success. But now i must drop into 2 other subjects that have been bugging me alot. The first, is the SOUND.
What DOES work
+ All the sounds in KDE works just fine, from system sounds, to Amarok, to all the video players. The instant touch buttons on the top of the laptop work to change the sounds up and down, mute, play next/prev ,
stop, pause. All the audio editing programs have sound output.
+ All programs using SDL work just fine, from OpenArena to a few others. Most of the games that come with my Distro (i downloaded them all) work just fine.
What DOES NOT work
ALot. All the emulators i have do not work. ZSNES, Snes9x. (my most favorite thing to play)
I bought QUAKE4 and installed it, worked fine, NO SOUND.
Anything that does not use SDL does not work.
BUT - MOST AGGRAVATING THEN ANYTHING
WINE does not have sound. And that puts me into the dirt. I use wine
for alot of the programs i use. And theres no support. On all other
computers i have the most recent wine release, sound works fine.
I figure because sounds only works HALF the time, this is not just a WINE problem.
THE QUESTION
How its set up (Under the (mandriva) Control Center:
Driver: Intel HDA driver (snd_hda_intel [ALSA])
[x] PulseAudio Enabled
[x] Enable 5.1 sound with Pulse Audio
[x] Automatic routing from ALSA to PulseAudio
[x] Enable user switching for audio applications
How do i find out what device i have?
Altec Lansing is the speakers but not the device right?
Is there some other driver i can use? Should i switch to OSS (if possible) or would that be dangerous?
I have no idea what i am doing in this area.
You'll get plenty of help with responses like that!!
Did you even read, or better yet try, any of the suggestions listed on that page?
Quote:
What DOES work
+ All the sounds in KDE works just fine, from system sounds, to Amarok, to all the video players. The instant touch buttons on the top of the laptop work to change the sounds up and down, mute, play next/prev ,
stop, pause. All the audio editing programs have sound output.
+ All programs using SDL work just fine, from OpenArena to a few others. Most of the games that come with my Distro (i downloaded them all) work just fine.
Yet you have determined...
Quote:
obvously, audio is only half-way installed.
Hmmm, so what could possibly be missing??
Oh, and for the record Enemy Territory (wolfenstein) (ID) & QUAKE4 both have sound under wine on my Mandriva.
Last edited by {BBI}Nexus{BBI}; 08-16-2008 at 02:23 AM.
Ok i read into what you told me too. And for some magical reason, Snes9x audio works now. Which is great. But amazingly enough, all the other things that use /dev/dsp do not.
When i run enemy territory this is what i get for the sound output:
------- sound initialization -------
/dev/dsp: Input/output error
Could not mmap /dev/dsp
------------------------------------
I tried using that OpenAL library stuff, but i will not compile, i imagine my sound card is not compat like it says.
The wine stuff is very interesting also... it says
Quote:
Getting wine to use the alsa sound card is also worth doing.
in config file
[WinMM]
"Drivers" = "wineoss.drv"
can be changed to
[WinMM]
"Drivers" = "winealsa.drv"
on both wine/cedega
or to
[WinMM]
"Drivers" = "winejack.drv"
on wine (probably not cedega)
consider also enabling mmap support, which helps on some hardware.
the prob i have is, exactly what is... where is.. the 'in config file' for wine.
well, theres lots to do. lots to figure out. SORRY for being an asshole NEXUS
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