Mandrake 10.0 CE

[VILLA21]

set it as /dev/sound/dsp if u're running a kernel 2.6.x.

Yes, MD10 is based on kernel 2.6.x, what do u mean set it as....?
I made 2 symlinks:
su
cd /dev
ln -s sound/dsp dsp
ln -s sound/mixer mixer
..but still got the same silly error

Add a line to your modules.conf right after alias eth0 3c59x:

I"ll try it as soon as i go back home tonight.
Thanks!

[serjer]

here u r villa21 4 ur sound:
control center->sound system->sound I/O ->use custom sound device
->/dev/sound/dsp
if xmms,preferences->output plugin->devices
->use alternate device =/dev/sound/dsp(audio device);
->use alternate device =/dev/sound/dsp(mixer device);

[scarecrow]

@ serjer: Something is wrong with the current ALSA driver of MDK 10- for me it works, but the CPU usage is ridiculous, and that on a P IV 2.8/800 machine with one gig of RAM... Switching to OSS everything goes just fine.

[serjer]

ok....i got bored with my kernel 2.6.1 on RH 9 & stopped messing with it since i have less time messing around..is it becoz of a particular snd card or same symptoms with the diff snd cards on the diff pcs u have?

[scarecrow]

ok....i got bored with my kernel 2.6.1 on RH 9 & stopped messing with it since i have less time messing around..is it becoz of a particular snd card or same symptoms with the diff snd cards on the diff pcs u have?

No... it only happens with onboard soundcards, PCI ones work fine.

[VILLA21]

Ok, now sound seems(?) working, no system notifications sounds though. That"s the error i still got in my boot.log:

ar 20 21:35:31 localhost alsactl: alsactl: load_state:1134:
Mar 20 21:35:31 localhost alsactl: No soundcards found...
Mar 20 21:35:31 localhost sound: Setting mixer settings failed

I give up searching, i"ll wait for the final MD10CE

[scarecrow]

Somehow, I had managed to install and get the nvidia drivers running very nicely (used the nvidia-kernel*.rpm package from the powerpack edition) for some one week. However, today I was greeted by a fatal error console message while booting, and xserver just refused to load, as the nvidia driver "was not existing"!
I performed via root console an uninstall "rpm -e nvidia*.rpm", rebooted, and the xserver loaded fine with the nv Xfree driver firmly working. I cannot understand what happened, but then whoever knows too much has to die!

[serjer]

sounds like typical mdk characteristics lol

[VILLA21]

Somehow, I had managed to install and get the nvidia drivers running very nicely (used the nvidia-kernel*.rpm package from the powerpack edition) for some one week. However, today I was greeted by a fatal error console message while booting, and xserver just refused to load, as the nvidia driver "was not existing"!
I performed via root console an uninstall "rpm -e nvidia*.rpm", rebooted, and the xserver loaded fine with the nv Xfree driver firmly working. I cannot understand what happened, but then whoever knows too much has to die!

Seems like a well-known issue on this pre-alpha release: you have to modprobe nvidia at every bootup.
Just put:
nvidia
in /etc/modprobe.preload
and it will be fine.