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Losing ARTS, No mouse on login 3

Here's a couple bugs I ran into: One is that I sometimes lose ARTS. ...sometimes during login, and sometimes later, like while playing Frozen Bubble or ClanBomber. (me and a cousin were playing ClanBomber. Her bomb went off and ARTS went at the same time. I accused her of killing the sound.:p ) On the third login under X (usually trying to get sound), I lose the mouse on the third login screen (and have yet to get it back afterwards). What can be causing these problems?

If you are running GPM try shutting it down and see if the mouse behavior stops.

As for the sound problem, it could be a resource conflict. I used to lose sound after playing tux racer in redhat (never worked well in that distro) when I changed video cards from Voodoo 3 2000 to Nvidia GF4 mx 440. The sound would cut out after behaving badly in tux racer and then there would be no sound in any other app. My sound card was a Ensonique PCI. ES1371 module IIRC

Never fixed the problem cuz I swithched to SuSE and it never was an issue again.

How do I check resources under Linux? I haven't seen that yet.

In KDE, go to system, info, info center

Check the IO-ports and IRQ's to see if the sound card is sharing resources with something else. Check system logs to see if you get any error messages when you loose the sound. I'm not sure what else to suggest as I never got around to fixing my problem before I switched distros.

Something interesting I just found: It is very stable under Root. I was in there trying to install a UDF module. :)

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Originally posted by Franklin
In KDE, go to system, info, info center

Check the IO-ports and IRQ's to see if the sound card is sharing resources with something else. Check system logs to see if you get any error messages when you loose the sound. I'm not sure what else to suggest as I never got around to fixing my problem before I switched distros.

That menu does not exist on KDE 3 that is on Mandrake 9. I see no errors with my sound, except that a certain program will report that my DMS device (sound, I may have named it wrong here) is not responding when I start it. However, it seems to lose contact with sound even in root, when the sound is perfectly stable.

What is the command for GPM? I punch in man gpm and get the manual (sounds handy though), but BASH don't recognize the gpm command. How do I kill it when I can't go gpm -k since BASH don't recognize it? btw: My mouse does go nutzo at the konsole now. It could be related...

Sorry, I'm not familiar with mandrake. :rolleyes:

gpm is a service that is started from the runlevels like smbd or apmd or chrond. If Mandrake has a tool to edit the runlevels or services, this is what you want. the is usually some option to start or stop the service and add it or remove it from the various runlevels.

As far as the other thing, you just need to check out the /proc directory. As an example:

Code:

steve@bertha:/proc> ls

1    1708  1968  2423  26093  26126  3806  4431  5    asound    execdomains  kcore    mtrr        sys

10    1709  1969  2424  26096  26130  3807  4433  510  buddyinfo  fb          kmsg    net        sysvipc

13    1712  1970  24548  26099  26133  4    4434  6    bus        filesystems  ksyms    partitions  tty

1320  1832  1971  2556  26113  26137  4319  4435  7    cmdline    fs          loadavg  pci        uptime

1380  1866  1972  2562  26115  26140  4321  4436  762  config.gz  ide          locks    scsi        version

1505  1868  2    26003  26116  26143  4322  4440  765  cpufreq    interrupts  mdstat  self        video

1704  1897  2419  26004  26118  26150  4323  4462  8    cpuinfo    iomem        meminfo  slabinfo

1705  1964  2420  26053  26119  26156  4324  4466  825  devices    ioports      misc    splash

1706  1966  2421  26069  26121  26895  4333  4467  936  dma        irq          modules  stat

1707  1967  2422  26090  26123  3      4365  4477  apm  driver



steve@bertha:/proc> cat ioports

0000-001f : dma1

0020-003f : pic1

0040-005f : timer

0060-006f : keyboard

0070-007f : rtc

0080-008f : dma page reg

00a0-00bf : pic2

00c0-00df : dma2

00f0-00ff : fpu

0170-0177 : ide1

01f0-01f7 : ide0

0213-0213 : isapnp read

02f8-02ff : serial(auto)

0376-0376 : ide1

0378-037a : parport0

037b-037f : parport0

03c0-03df : vesafb

03f6-03f6 : ide0

03f8-03ff : serial(auto)

0a79-0a79 : isapnp write

0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1

b400-b407 : Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port

b800-b81f : Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1

  b800-b81f : EMU10K1

d000-d0ff : Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX

  d000-d0ff : tulip

d400-d41f : Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB

  d400-d41f : usb-uhci

d800-d80f : Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE

  d800-d807 : ide0

  d808-d80f : ide1

e400-e43f : Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI

e800-e81f : Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI



steve@bertha:/proc> cat interrupts

          CPU0

  0:  29484357          XT-PIC  timer

  1:      58158          XT-PIC  keyboard

  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade

  3:    8227874          XT-PIC  serial

  5:          8          XT-PIC  eth0, usb-uhci

  8:          2          XT-PIC  rtc

 10:      89607          XT-PIC  EMU10K1

 11:  23028233          XT-PIC  nvidia

 12:    5546892          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse

 14:    548546          XT-PIC  ide0

 15:      1212          XT-PIC  ide1

NMI:          0

LOC:          0

ERR:          0

MIS:          0

This will list the same info - just not all "purty"

:D

The last time I tried to look in the /proc folder, it wasn't an actual foder, though cat /proc/pci did work then. I will check it again.