[GLLUG] MDK 9.1 Sound problems.

[Rich Clark]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 troettger at comcast.net wrote:

> Hello all, I am somewhat new to the list and have a question for you all.  I 
> just installed MDK 9.1 on my laptop, new install new partitions.  And I am 
> having sound problem.  Nothing new, I ran MDK 9.0 through the beta's and had 
> problems with every build, which I could get around and fix myself until 9.1 by 
> just correcting the modules config file.  Its an older laptop, a Gateway 2150, 
> 600mhz, the sound card is detected as es1371. From previous experience I knew I 
> needed to use the es1371 driver, the other driver was the snd-ens1371.  I 
> choose this driver when asked in the install but when I first booted the laptop 
> The soundcard wasn't working and it was loading the snd-ens1371 driver.
> 
> I believe the snd-ens1371 is an ALSA Driver and the es1371 is a OSS driver.  I 
> checked the .conf file and fixed what normally fixed it before and it didn't 
> work this time.  To get my sound to work I have to rmmod kill the pid for kmix 
> (when using kde) then rmmod all the snd drivers I can then run draksound and 
> choose the correct driver and it will restart the sound server and work 
> normally (but if I don't rmmod the drivers it won't work at all. 
> 
> >From What I am guessing MDK built the wrong drivers into the kernel so I think 
> I am gonna have to recompile the kernel.  Any thoughts on how or why MDK would 
> do this?  Any quick fixes?  I haven't recompiled a kernel yet so I am a bit 
> leary, though it is a new install and won't kill much if I screw it up. 
> 
> On an interesting side note, any version of Red Hat perfectly detects and 
> configures my card without problem.  

Tim,

I also caught Jeff Utter's message.  I'm a long-time Mandrake fiend and 
think I could help.  Can you do me a favor and post copies of an lsmod 
when the sound doesn't work, and also a copy of /etc/modules.conf, please?  
I might be able to help get this unfubar for ya.  Also, please check to 
see if artsd is running (issue ps -C artsd).

Rich
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