No sound

skunkymunky · Post by **skunkymunky** » 26 Jan 2004, 12:19

i just installed SUSE 9.0 on my other box and damn i got no sound.

i can hear the air booming out of the speakers, but when it comes to playing music there is nothing.

funilly when i was installing SUSE and you have to set your volume and you play the clip to test it there is sound.

also when i ran xmms from the Konsole, it gave me this error "snd_drive: devide or resources busy" how the fark do i unbusy it.

i also have no sound when KDE starts up.
i thought it was maybe a missing mp3 codec, so i tried a wav & ogg file still nothing.

2. i tried installing some software using the cd, ./configure, make & make install procedure.
only to find out Konsole gives me an error message : "bad interpreter"/ permission denied"
this is done as root by the way logged on as root & i also tried the "su"

plz help this is really stressing me out cos so far i've lost the ability to install programs & play my music.

Hyperchild · Post by **Hyperchild** » 26 Jan 2004, 12:21

I dont know linux so I may be talking cr@p when I say - have you checked for device conflicts?

skunkymunky · Post by **skunkymunky** » 26 Jan 2004, 12:39

yeah i wud but i'm kinda new to this, back in east london Linux ran perfectly without a glich.

btw if its a matter of interest

i haven't installed the Nvidia drivers yet, i don't understand why they'll be affecting sound but just in case.

bb_matt · Post by **bb_matt** » 26 Jan 2004, 12:59

I think SuSe 9.0 uses Alsa by default.

Try the following commands at the command prompt :-

alsaconf

alsamixer

Also, a good linux forum is http://www.linuxquestions.org

skunkymunky · Post by **skunkymunky** » 26 Jan 2004, 13:03

i was hoping one of you peeps might help they havent activated my account yet so i cant access any sites but funilly enuff this one i can..

SnowMonkey · Post by **SnowMonkey** » 26 Jan 2004, 13:22

Have you pluged your speakers in?

//me dives under table..

skunkymunky · Post by **skunkymunky** » 26 Jan 2004, 13:26

SnowMonkey wrote:Have you pluged your speakers in?

//me dives under table..

i'll turn you into a flaming crisp for that

skunkymunky · Post by **skunkymunky** » 26 Jan 2004, 14:44

finally got my account to work

i've been reading linux forums and it say by default ALSA mutes your system and turns down the volume to zero hopefully this will work

skunkymunky · Post by **skunkymunky** » 27 Jan 2004, 10:25

Nah still not working guess i'm stuck with windoze for the next six moths

Adelante · Post by **Adelante** » 31 Jan 2004, 12:15

what kernel version are u using? and what sound card do you have?

skunkymunky · Post by **skunkymunky** » 02 Feb 2004, 16:02

kernel version i think it's 2.4.2 cant really be sure it came default with suse 9.0

sound card is onboard for a hope i get this right GA-7VAX a gigabyte mobo

Death_Dealer · Post by **Death_Dealer** » 07 Feb 2004, 21:33

Since I have the same mobo as you, I decided to check if the onboard soundcard is supported by alsa.

The chipset seems to be a ALC650.

But it seems its not supported - I checked their sound card matrix site - http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/in ... All#matrix - and couldnt find the chipset mentioned above there.

So the morall of the story - get yourself a Sblaster Live ffs.

skunkymunky · Post by **skunkymunky** » 09 Feb 2004, 11:33

wish i cud but i just dropped a dime on a new HDD and i'm broke as fark

funnily enuff i was able to play my mp3 thru xmms, when i change the output driver from OSS to ALSA yet the is still no system sound

cos i ran alsconf, alsamixer, aumix, kmix.

now i wudnt care much abt the system sound but how do i get other apps like xine & gmplayer to also use the alsa output driver like xmms.

bb_matt · Post by **bb_matt** » 09 Feb 2004, 11:36

There's a way to get the system sound to use alsa instead of oss.

as far as I know, window mangers like gnome have the volume control linked to oss instead of alsa (or something like that)

I think you have to have oss compiled into the kernel tho ?

That's the problem with Linux still - there's a lot of competing standards or obselete methods still being used.

Sounds to me like your sound card is supported, but linux isn't always picking things up correctly because of confusion between OSS and Alsa.

skunkymunky · Post by **skunkymunky** » 09 Feb 2004, 11:41

cudnt i just remove the one and leave the other.

Nitroflea · Post by **Nitroflea** » 15 Feb 2004, 22:46

You could recompile your kernel and remove oss support. Then try reinstalling the alsa-drivers, and run the alsa config script again. That should sort it out.

Then you can install alsa'a oss emulation so that any prog that can't use alsa yet will still work.

bb_matt · Post by **bb_matt** » 16 Feb 2004, 08:42

Yeah - but before venturing into the world of kernel compiling, read a lot of documentation !

Bottom line, keep your old kernel config and modules before compiling so you can go back to your old kernel if the new one doesn't work right.

You may even want to try the 2.6 kernel, but that is not for the unitiated !
I managed to get a running 2.6 kernel on my slackware 9.1 box at home, but believe me, it took a looooong time to get it right - over a week, about 15 hours !

AngryRabbit · Post by **AngryRabbit** » 16 Feb 2004, 09:38

Personally I'd go for the Kernal's streetwise 30 piece fried chicken bucket, but hey that's just me.