Subject: RE: [linux-audio-user] [OT] venting re: Mandrake 8.2
From: Ivica Bukvic (ico_AT_fuse.net)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 21:10:51 EET
8.2 is rather quirky. I'd go with 9.0.
Apart from that, here are my thoughts on the issues you've been having:
> 1. The CD drive is actually a Toshiba DVD drive. Mandrake
installed
> all
> right from it but afterwards is unable to read from any disc I insert.
> All I get is an uninformative "input/output error".
>
check /etc/fstab and see whether it uses supermount (which to me never
worked just right) and change it to good ole /dev/cdrom, or even better
(if it is dvd drive) to /dev/scd0. Also make sure to make appropriate
corrections to modules.conf and lilo in order to avoid cdrom module
loading (u will be emulating scsi device -- I am not sure if this is
necessary for dvd, but is definitely needed for any kind of cdr or rw
work).
> 2. The sound configuration is a joke, right ? I boot into KDE
and
> hear
> the KDE tune just fine, but when I try to run any bundled sound
> application (XMMS, MIDI synth, etc) I get an error saying that the
> output device is unreachable. When I test sound using the Drake tool
it
> says it's playing an 8-bit sample but I hear nothing. The tool asks
only
> if you do or do not hear the sample, it offers no advice on what to do
> if you don't hear anything.
Did you disable the KDE sound server Arts (go to kde control center to
find out more)? This is a known issue due to fact that arts is not
compatible with all apps. You can use a hack similar to ld_preload stuff
by typing artsdsp <appname> <params>, to try to hook up the app to the
artsd even if it does not support it natively.
> 3. The Internet configuration informs me that I have no
connection
> even
> when I do.
>
No idea here, sorry. Again, try 9.0, it worked fine for me.
> 4. The GCC 2.96 is weird, yes ? When I ran ./configure for the
> latest
> ALSA I get an error telling me that the C compiler cannot produce
> executables. This, whether I'm normal user or root. Whafug??!!
Sorry, can't help ya here either :-(.
Hopefully this helps some. Regards,
Ico
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