Malcolm Baldridge wrote: > Quoting kmd <lazone@xxxxx>: > > >>immediately worked like a charm with mdk 9.2. unbelievable. the trouble >>started with mdk 10.0. i managed to make it work after several days of >>searching. don't ask me how, i woke up, booted and to my surprise it >>worked. never change a winning configuration you would say. indeed. >>today i reenabled the onboard audio chip in the bios, booted windows, >>booted back linux and yes trouble happened. > > > Ouch. This reads like one of those bad soap operas where you know how it's > going to end, you shout at the TV screen "DON'T DO IT!!" but the actors keep > continuing onwards to their doom. > > >>alsa 1.0.2c > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > This is quite old. Have you considered updating to ALSA-1.0.5a? > i upgraded to 1.05, same problem: no error messages when playing anything, but again no sound. > You can try the "minimalist" approach of just upgrading your drivers first, > and then the UTILITIES (not the libraries)... if you upgrade your libraries, > you might need to recompile/re-link every ALSA application in your box, > which would be a terrible amount of work and effort for just an experiment. > > >>mandrake 10 official, standard 2.6 kernel > > > Yikes. I smell so much danger here, Will Robinson. > > Verify the audio drivers are loading apropriately (check dmesg) > Verify mixer settings with a low-level tool like alsamixer. Double-check > MUTE settings. Check "procinfo" command for a registered IRQ on the sound > card, and that the IRQ count is non-zero. If it's a shared IRQ with another > active device, this won't give you any conclusive data. as i said, alsamixer works fine and is unmuted. amixer: [kmd@bazz kmd]$ amixer Simple mixer control 'DAC',0 Capabilities: pvolume Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 16383 Front Left: Playback 12568 [77%] Front Right: Playback 12568 [77%] [kmd@bazz kmd]$ cat /proc/asound/card0/rme96 RME Digi96/8 PAD at 0xf6000000, irq 21 (index #1) General settings period size: 8192 bytes Input settings input: coaxial sample rate: no valid signal sample format: 16 bit Output settings output signal: same as input sample rate: 44100 Hz sample format: 16 bit sample clock source: internal format: IEC958 (consumer) emphasis: off non-audio (dolby): off Analog output settings monitored ADAT tracks: 1+2 attenuation: 0 dB volume left: 16383 volume right: 16383 > > Sorry, Monsieur KMD. > > =MB= > thank you kmd
