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Sound Card Woes (SiS card again)
Calum:
voidmain's always right! i'm F. glad voidmain is so consistent in coming up with help.
I have been using Gnome and all the bog standard low end window managers, but i might have to start using KDE if it comes to it, i just like to go the long way round, to see if i can pick up any extra knowledge and info on the way. I haven't had a look at the control dialogue in KDE yet, as a result. I will, and i haven't tried that fix from the mandrake forums yet either, thanks for all the help guys (ie VoidMain) and i'll post again if it doesn't work,,,
creedon:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
voidmain's always right! i'm F. glad voidmain is so consistent in coming up with help.
I have been using Gnome and all the bog standard low end window managers, but i might have to start using KDE if it comes to it, i just like to go the long way round, to see if i can pick up any extra knowledge and info on the way. I haven't had a look at the control dialogue in KDE yet, as a result. I will, and i haven't tried that fix from the mandrake forums yet either, thanks for all the help guys (ie VoidMain) and i'll post again if it doesn't work,,,
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Give XFCE a try; it's a really nice little WM, it's small and FAST!!
Calum:
well, i did all that stuff, that voidmain said, i went and fiddled with my KDE sound server control panel, and i also turned up all the volumes on the audio mixer from the men u bar. (some of them were turned right down) and still no luck, i had those settings the same as you already, voidmain, except the autosuspend if idle, which was set to one second. i changed it to 60 seconds, but i don't know what it does (i know what it sounds like it does, but i think i must be wrong since i can see no reason why it would want to do that).
Right, so then i tried to create /dev/dsp and apparently it is already there! funny business here, so i did an 'ls -al /dev/dsp' and sure enough, there it is, larger than life, i think it had permissions of r-xr-xr-x.
Anyway, i went and ran kmix, as my next systematic attack, and guess what? all the sliders are turned down to nothing! i turn up the PCM volume (and all the rest, never know when you might want to play a CD or record from the mic), and hey presto, SOUND!
so i feel like a prize dope. turn up the volume. an idiot i am for not thinking of it in the first place, but an even worse idiot for thinking that i had when i hadn't! i am just a bit confused about how aumix failed to turn up the controls for me, and kmix did...
Is there a way btw (i know there is, but what is it?) to customise the startbar and menus? in KDE2.4 that is? i want to put kmix on there instead of aumix (i think that's what it is anyway).
Thanks for all your help guys, but it just goes to show that what they say about human error is true...
PS i tried XFCe, and quite liked it. i want to get used to all those windows managers, so i don't get dependent on one or the other too much. Everybody raves about enlightenment, but it's far too top heavy and klunky for me, even if it looks good and has a few nice features...
also, i now know what lspci does.
[ May 10, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]
voidmain:
Do you mean you want kmix to show up on your start/task bar like an applet? It's the one I have running on my task bar. It's in the kmix options (Dock Into Panel).
Master of Reality:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
i'll just take the opportunity to post this url: http://www.sis.com/support/driver/linux.htm because it's the page from sis.com with all their official linux drivers on it, that you guys mentioned. I wanted to post it because i have bumped into a few other disgruntled people online with grumps about the SiS chipsets and i want to direct them to this page so they can get all the urls all in one...
Now, thanks for looking out those links for me, i had found the first two modem ones already although i haven't had a chance to try them out yet, i will tonight, your last link, seems to be specific to the 2.2 kernel. I do actually have the 2.4 kernel, and as SiS snidely point out on their drivers page, Audio support can be compiled in in the 2.4 kernel. It seems odd to me that this was not automatically done when i installed mandrake, since it is possible to do it. No matter, i will try and do that tonight too (after i have tried that patch).
The video links are no longer necessary, since mandrake configures the SiS630 (but not the 650 apparently) fine all by itself, although i am using the framebuffer, fearing catastrophe if i go for full 3D support. I am told it is a bug in the hardware, but what it is is moot if they can work around it.
Okleydoke, thanks again, i'm just confused about how the SiS 7018 card actually did work with red hat 7.0 (2.2 kernel), with no tweaking from me!?!?!?
[ May 08, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]
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i dont know if you remember this far back, but did you use the ddriver from that page^^ and use the binary that comes with it to install?? OR did you actually recompile your kernel with support for it???
[ October 27, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / Bob ]
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