Hi,, I started using Mandrake linux 9.2 about 2 weeks ago.
So far I've had a few problems with it and I've been able to solve most of them, still this one is driving me crazy. When I installed Mandrake it automaticaly detected and provided the driver for my sound card (sis 7012 on ECS K7S5A motherboard), but I noticed it had the 3 problems:
1: no multichannel support, meaning I can't get 2 apps to use sound at the same time, if I play a mp3 on XMMS I can't get any other app to play a sound, Totem won't play files, there's no sound on aMSN or GAIM and such.
2: Everytime I play a mp3, after around 20 secs on playback the sound goes as if it was on fast forward for about 5 seconds and then goes back to normal, not such a big deal but it is kind of annoying.
3: Totem crashes on certain files, it reports a segmentation problem and plays the file with no sound till the end and then freezes.
So I updated ALSA from 0.9.6 to 1.0.1 following the instructions posted on their site regarding the sis 7012 soundcard
After this problems 2 and 3 were solved. But I still have the same multichannel problem.
I'm a total linux newb so I don't really know exactly what to do to enable this or to diagnose what's wrong.
here's my modules.conf:
alias sound-slot-0 snd-0
alias eth0 8139too
probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
probeall usb-interface usb-ohci
above snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss
options bttv radio=0 card=13 gbuffers=4
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
# module options should go here
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-0
# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia
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I don't know if this is relevant but this is my etc/modules
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with
# a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.
scsi_hostadapter
bttv
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And finally my XF86Config-4:
# File generated by XFdrake.
# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "la"
Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
VendorName "Plug'n Play"
HorizSync 30-71
VertRefresh 50-160
# Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)?
# 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync
ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync
# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630
# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout1"
Screen "screen1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
EndSection
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I also added .asoundrc to root and home/"user" folder
pcm.intel8x0 {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.intel8x0 {
type hw
card 0
}
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I would really appreciate any help since I've been trying to get this problem solved for about a week and I'm getting kind of frustatred
Thanks in advance.
*System Specs
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.6 Ghz
ECS K7S5A motherboard with integrated SIS 7012 soundcard
Nvidia Geforce4 MX440 64 mb video card