3.4-3.rc4
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The sound continues to be very flaky on my HP Pavilion ZX5000 laptop; it's a 3.0 GHz P4 with 1.5 GB of ram, so it's fairly modern. After installing rc4 yesterday, first reboot produced no working sound. Booted again, and sound came up. ??? Today, I ran Synaptic update; it found about six packages inluding vorbis and some libs - after that, a reboot led to a huge glitch in the audio section of boot - page after page scrolled by of failed ati messages, too fast to see. When the machine came back up, there was no sound. Reboot didn't help...
I had tried that the last
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I had tried that the last time I was going through this, to no avail. I decided to give it another shot after your post, so I reboot my box back into MEPIS, and the pace of the messages is a bit slower so I can read them (I only got about 15 failures); I have a Lexicon External USB audio card attached to this box (card is a misnomer, it's a box with a lot of professional features and input/outputs.) No Linux distro has ever gotten this device to work. It's a fairly high end audio device, so that's a shame.
Anyhow, MEPIS is trying to detect that device! That's what the failures are about, at least this latest time. It gave up after about 15 tries, and this time, it booted up and sound is working off the built-in audio card, as previously!
I guess, in my original post, my description of flakiness is not so far off. "Flakiness" is not intended to be pejorative, just descriptive...
mmm, external USB can
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mmm, external USB can definitely lead to headaches.... The driver issue is unfortunately more a hardware vendor related issue than a Linux issue, so I'm afraid not much can be done about it.
When you unplug it, will Mepis discover the internal card correctly, or is that flaky as well? It might even be a BIOS issue, some conflict between two sound devices. You could try and play with disabling built-in device or assigning IRQ settings. My guess is that without the external device plugged in the built in card should work correctly. But maybe I'm wrong.
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You'll notice in the new
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You'll notice in the new posts, someone else had a similar experience to mine. No sound - tried this, tried that, nothing worked. Then, out of nowhere, it starts working... Mine is working reliably now, everytime I reboot. So, for now, I'll leave it like this. I don't want to have to remove my Lexicon Audio box every time I boot into Linux because it's plugged into the back of my expansion bay, and that's a rats nest of wires that is not se easily accessed.
fair enough! Hope it keeps
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fair enough! Hope it keeps working for you then!! Checking the BIOS might be an option though. For instance having APIC enabled may lead to some IRQ issues every now and then. Make sure to enforce the BIOS to set 'Plug and Play OS' to NO. That way, the BIOS will report IRQ's to the OS, and this should make things more reliable.
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For Me rc3 is better than rc4
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When I installed rc3 I used my old home with no problem even though I had to upgrade udev, I installed rc4 over rc3 and saved home I got all kinds of desktop errors and I could not use Quick Launcher, I reinstalled rc3 and I am back to having no problems, excepet for moz mplayer plugin not being used by Firefox for .wmv, it wants to use Kaffeine and download the whole video to temp before it starts to play and I don't know yet how to fix this, may be install moz kaffeine plugin. Any thoughts on this?
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Bad Dog
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SimplyMEPIS 3.4-rc3 - KDE 3.4
Kernel 2.6.15-1-586tsc
did you try to go to konsole
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did you try to go to konsole and as root type 'alsaconf'? This will guide you throught a setup of the soundcard.
To save the settings, type 'alsactl store'
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