No sound in Mandrake 8.1

[DJKAOS]

I can't get my sound to work in mandrake 8.1
in 7.2 it worked fine.

soundcard is sound blaster PCI512 (I think...its got outputs for 2 sets of speakers and it came with half life and some other games.

I have a 1.4 gig athlon
380mb ram
voodoo 5 agp
2 20 gig hard drives

Primary drive has Win98 on it...
secondary has linux mandrake 8.1

anyway installation detected that I had a soundblaster but its not doing anything..when I try to go to hardware in KDE it says "wait loading Hard Drake" but then it kicks me to a black screen and never does anything after that.

 

[DJKAOS]

Actually I figured out the deal.
My build in sound on my motherboard does work. (In windows 98 I just disabled the built in sound because its not as good)

How can I disable my built in sound card in mandrake 8.1...and If I do this will it be able to get my other card working.

Thanks for any help

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

If you have sound on the motherboard (e.g. ac97) that you want to disable in favour of an add-on adapter, you would do this from the PC bios set-up, not from the operating system itself. Depending on the bios manufacturer you would press F2, F1, delete or escape when the PC first boots to get into the setup screens. There should be an option on one of the screens to disable onboard sound - do this, save & exit.

Regards

 

[DJKAOS]

Oh yea, duh... Thanks I never thought of that.
Thanks a lot. I'll write back if I can't get the PCI card to work after I disable the other one in bios.

Thanks again.

 

[mikeo2l]

I have the same sound card. Installations work perfectly. Something to try: Take out the card and install 8.1. Make sure its working and then close down and install the card. Mandrake should find new hardware and install it. Check the name on the main (biggest) chip on the sound card it may not be creative. If still no sound or not detected, use harddrake to add sound for the name on the chip not creative. Sound support has been added to the kernal in most new linux systems. You can remove it from the kernal (check kernal mans). Another option for sound suppport is available on mandrake... can't remember which progra it is but it's mentioned in the install notes. This program can add support for cards not included in the current release.

I know its not much help but it's something.. Mike

 

[rfjk]

hi as this this a sound question i would like to add on a little more. Can ac97 onboard sound work with linux at all, I use red hat 7, if not does anyone of a good CHEAP card that works well in Linux and windows, (and BeOS for that matter)?

 

[DJKAOS]

I got it working perfecly now...
I just diabled the onboard one in bios..and the PCI one works great now.

Thanks

for rfjk, I don't know but my onboard sound worked with linux..it sounded terrible though.

 

[tep0583]

rfjk, it seems that a lot of the Yamaha-based cards work with Linux and can be had rether inexpensively. I would check the supported hardware list first, just to be sure. The AC97 sound system is supported in later versions of Linux, I am not sure about RH7, you may be able to locate a driver that will work with RH7 though.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

For ac97 (or any other sound device for that matter) you can try using alsa from

http://www.alsa-project.org

. Very simply you download the sources for the alsa-driver, alsa-libs, & alsa-utils. Then you do :

cd your-download-directory
bunzip2 alsa-driver-0.9.0beta8a.tar.bz2
tar xvf alsa-driver-0.9.0beta8a.tar
cd alsa-driver-0.9.0beta8a
./configure
make
make install
./snddevices

[do the same for libs & utils but not the last bit (./snddevices)]

You then just have to configure your /etc/modules.conf correctly with the driver that relates to your hardware ... see -->

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa/cvs/alsa-driver/INSTALL

Rgds