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Old 12-04-2004, 04:50 AM   #1
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alsaconf doesn't find my card


I've recently installed Mandrake 10.1 powerpack. I've no sound. I run alsaconf and it does not find my card(AudigyLS). I check HardDrake and lo-and-behold it IS there, with the right name, but it says it's not supported when I try to run config-tool.

Any ideas?

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Old 12-04-2004, 05:41 AM   #2
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See this thread: same solution.

DO NOT use alsaconf...

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=262361
 
Old 12-04-2004, 06:16 AM   #3
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So I did as per the site you sent me to. One of the sites wasn't loading so I closed the console (probably was a bad idea but it was idle for over 30 minutes). When I tried again to do a different line, it said something about being locked. When i tried to run urpmi.removemedia -a, I got this:
# urpmi.removemedia -a
unable to access hdlist file of "Installation CD 3 (cdrom3)", medium ignored
unable to access hdlist file of "updates", medium ignored
unable to access hdlist file of "Supplementary Applications CD 5 (cdrom8)", medium ignored
unable to access hdlist file of "Supplementary Applications CD 4 (cdrom7)", medium ignored
unable to access hdlist file of "Installation CD 2 (cdrom2)", medium ignored
unable to access hdlist file of "Installation CD 3 (cdrom6)", medium ignored
unable to access hdlist file of "update_source", medium ignored
unable to access hdlist file of "plf", medium ignored
unable to access hdlist file of "Commercial Applications CD 6 (cdrom10)", medium ignored
unable to access hdlist file of "Commercial Applications CD 6 (cdrom9)", medium ignored
unable to access hdlist file of "Installation CD 1 (cdrom1)", medium ignored
unable to access hdlist file of "Installation CD 3 (cdrom5)", medium ignored
unable to access hdlist file of "Installation CD 3 (cdrom4)", medium ignored
removing medium "Installation CD 3 (cdrom3)"
removing medium "updates"
removing medium "Supplementary Applications CD 5 (cdrom8)"
removing medium "Supplementary Applications CD 4 (cdrom7)"
removing medium "Installation CD 2 (cdrom2)"
removing medium "Installation CD 3 (cdrom6)"
removing medium "update_source"
removing medium "plf"
removing medium "Commercial Applications CD 6 (cdrom10)"
removing medium "Commercial Applications CD 6 (cdrom9)"
removing medium "Installation CD 1 (cdrom1)"
removing medium "Installation CD 3 (cdrom5)"
removing medium "Installation CD 3 (cdrom4)"
urpmi database locked


Any ideas?
 
Old 12-04-2004, 06:35 AM   #4
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found the solution

i was unable to unlock urpmi, but when i try "urmpi alsa" it says everything is already installed.

for anyone else with a locked urpmi: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=187781
 
Old 12-04-2004, 06:46 AM   #5
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Good, so your also programs and utilities are installed.

Now first dump the contents of /etc/modules.conf (post it here so I can have a look too) and make a copy...

e.g.

cp /etc/modules.conf /etc/modules.conf.sav

Then find and delete any existing entries having to do with sound.

Reboot and Linux should reconfigure or add any missing sound entries back in again.

If not you should have something like...

alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss

Which is all that is really required!

However if your motherboard also has on board sound you may also have something like

alias sound-slot-1 snd-intel8x0
above snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss

Note that these two entries should occur together and the "sound-slot-X" determines driver precedence.

You may find that you may need to reverse the order and assignment and reboot if you have multiple sound devices.

Remember that the sounds starts off muted until you run auxmix and set the volumes and save them as defaults. After doing this also set the defaults in KDE. KDE will pick up the Auxmix settings and apply them at start as will the sound process.

That's it.
 
Old 12-04-2004, 07:03 AM   #6
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still no sound

well...........I did as what you said.........though, yes, I didn't send you a copy of what it said. And when I DO reload linux, my /etc/modules.conf is empty and still no sound.

This is so weird since I've been able to get the sound running on Mandrake 10.1 before with the VERY SAME CARD!
 
Old 12-04-2004, 08:31 AM   #7
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Then place the entries above into /etc/modules.conf and restart.
 
Old 12-04-2004, 08:34 AM   #8
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Also

urpmi alsa-mixergui alsaplayer alsa-utils
 
Old 12-04-2004, 05:13 PM   #9
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well...........

I've decided to just give up on this for now. After having spent many hours on it, I've become quite frustrated. I'll just leave it hanging till some other time.

But nonetheless, thank you very much for your help.
 
Old 12-04-2004, 05:58 PM   #10
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ALAS sound on these speakers here of mine!

Well..........since I did well exhaust all other measures, I tried to figure out why my downloaded version of Alsa-drivers-1.0.7 wouldn't compile. It seemed as though it was missing the kernel sources. So I urpmi for the kernel-source, compile the drivers, and run alsaconf and ALAS(!) my card is found.
 
  


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