No Sound

[scopexg5]

I get no sound when running Mandrake 10.1. I ran the update utility last night. I tried running Kmix, but it crashed and gave me error signal 8 (SIGFPE).

What do I do?

[UgoDeschamps]

What you computer spec, Audio card and MB.
Whats your kernel version
also, are you trying to run any application that requires sound when opening kmix?

[ruthrakh]

I (Linux n00b) am having the same problem. I have onboard sound (detected as nForce2 Audio Codec Interface) and it does play neither CDs nor MP3s. I tried installing all kinds of drivers from the Nvidia site, but that doesn't help (I might have done it completely wrong, being a Windows user.) Somebody knows a solution?

To answer Ugo's other questions:
-I don't know which kernel.
-I am running KsCD or Amarok when trying to fix the problem.

Another clue: I do hear some clicky sound during bootup and shutdown (when audio driver (?) is started/shut down (?))

[UgoDeschamps]

I (Linux n00b) am having the same problem. I have onboard sound (detected as nForce2 Audio Codec Interface) and it does play neither CDs nor MP3s. I tried installing all kinds of drivers from the Nvidia site, but that doesn't help (I might have done it completely wrong, being a Windows user.) Somebody knows a solution?

To answer Ugo's other questions:
-I don't know which kernel.
-I am running KsCD or Amarok when trying to fix the problem.

Another clue: I do hear some clicky sound during bootup and shutdown (when audio driver (?) is started/shut down (?))

KsCD only plays audio cd if a wire is connected directly from the CDROM to the audio card (not like windows) so for playing audio cd, you will need another audio player (i recommend XMMS)

For MP3, depending on your distro, MP3 codec arent always included with the distro for legal purpose

You might want to install XMMS, XMMS-MP3... go here for XMMS
and here's a link for XMMS-MP3 package,....

Hope this helps

[ruthrakh]

Thanks for your help! I will try installing XMMS, however I am not sure whether this will help. In the Mandrake config it is possible to test the sound card by pressing a 'test' button but I hear nothing. Do you (or someone else) have other suggestions?

Ruud[/quote]

[UgoDeschamps]

Thanks for your help! I will try installing XMMS, however I am not sure whether this will help. In the Mandrake config it is possible to test the sound card by pressing a 'test' button but I hear nothing. Do you (or someone else) have other suggestions?

Ruud

If you run alsamixer under terminal, is everything muted?
if you run kmix, anything muted too?

[ruthrakh]

both Kmix and alsamixer show no muted channels

R.

[UgoDeschamps]

both Kmix and alsamixer show no muted channels

R.

hmmm... mabye you've installed an invalid driver, I have an Nforce chip too, and the default MDK driver are working perfectly.... first, try to un-install the driver, and reconfigure using the MDK default driver

[ruthrakh]

I don't know if this is the place for asking stupid questions, but is there a manual somewhere how to uninstall drivers and reconfigure using the MDK default driver? I don't know what an MDK driver is.
Thanks!

R.

[UgoDeschamps]

I don't know if this is the place for asking stupid questions, but is there a manual somewhere how to uninstall drivers and reconfigure using the MDK default driver? I don't know what an MDK driver is.
Thanks!

R.

The only stupid questions, are unasked one!
As for the driver, under the mandrake control center, you have a "Hardware" option, where you will be able to setup the audio... simply uninstall whats in there, and reconfigure after...

A reboot might not be nescarrary, but I always tend to reboot after touching configuration like that