No audio in 10.1

raysr · 12-12-2004, 05:31 PM

Just finished installing 10.1 Official and I find that I NO audio. I looked in kde under "sound system" and "alsa mixer" is there somewhere else to look? Thanks.

opjose · 12-12-2004, 08:33 PM

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Your system specs, and make sure you include your motherboard chipset and audio chipset.

The output of lspci

The contents of /etc/lilo.conf

The output of lsmod

The contents of /etc/modules.conf

The contents of /etc/modprobe.conf

raysr · 12-12-2004, 08:51 PM

Thanks for the reply. Let me say that I installed 10.1 over a working 9.2, sound was working, same drivers etc. Before I can do anything else I need to know how to login as root. The log out screen doesn't give me the option of logging in as another user. I ran "/sbin/chkconfig --list sound and /sbin/chkconfig --list alsa" and
got 0. off 1. off 2 thru 5 on and 6. off. L7VMM2 Motherboard. lspci =
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
00:0a.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k HSFi Modem (rev 01)
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266]

opjose · 12-12-2004, 09:50 PM

Upgrading probably caused the install process not to detect the sound card.

There was a rather dramatic kernel change going from 9.2 to 10.1

The old settings may be actually getting in the way.

Post the other files as indicated.

raysr · 12-13-2004, 01:46 AM

I didn't upgrade, I installed it, twice. I've had so many problems with 10.1 I gave up. I even bought a driver for my conexant winmodem for $15 for the 2.6 kernel. Maybe it's my machine or me but 10.1 isn't as good as 9.2, more bells and whistles but lots of bugs. (IMO) Thanks for the reply.

jburford · 12-13-2004, 05:52 AM

I am having problems with installing 10.1....sound, usb etc. I suspect I have a dud cd, but have downloaded another image and am hoping for the best, but I have a nagging feeling this might be Mandrakes first dud release in a long time....I hope not.

If you don't get any joy with 10.1, I had no trouble with 9.1, 9.2 and 10.0 - if all else fails, try 10.0 Official, which is effective, stable, modern and a good all round distribution.

ouch....

Jim

opjose · 12-13-2004, 01:33 PM

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Originally posted by raysr
I didn't upgrade, I installed it, twice. I've had so many problems with 10.1 I gave up. I even bought a driver for my conexant winmodem for $15 for the 2.6 kernel. Maybe it's my machine or me but 10.1 isn't as good as 9.2, more bells and whistles but lots of bugs. (IMO) Thanks for the reply.

Bugs no

Changes yes.

There are major differences in the way the kernels work in these releases.

Couple this with the fact that for safety Mandrake usually disables ACPI, and you'll end up with a lot of undetected devices.

Mandrake does this because ACPI is broken on a lot of motherboard bioses.

It's required to allocate resources (e.g. IRQ's. etc.) but can hang your system if you are aflicted.

With 10.1 the first thing you should do is enable it and reboot, and see if things start getting detected.