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Does anyone else feel that if Linux get's it's act together when it comes to sound it would be more popular?
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Re: Linux Sound
Sat, August 13, 2005 - 8:26 AMI haven't had an issue with sound for some time now (over 2 years?). alsa works great. Now, all of my hardware is at least a year and a half old and didn't approach top shelf when it was new so maybe thats why.
I think there are plenty of issues sound included that can wreck an install. There are plenty of issues that wreck windows installs too.
I personally don't care weither or not Linux is popular on the desktop. It's already popular in the backend which is where I'd rater spend most of my time. Anyway, is your sound card giving you the finger or something? :) -
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Re: Linux Sound
Sat, August 13, 2005 - 9:45 AMNot really. I just haven't been able to install alsa. -
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Re: Linux Sound
Sat, August 13, 2005 - 1:23 PMthats a drag. do you know if you kernel was built with alsa support ( I think it's a default with new kernels but you never know)? -
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Re: Linux Sound
Sun, August 14, 2005 - 2:25 AMI'm having a prob. updating my kernel. The only available new one for Fedora is i686. My machine's a i586. I'm think of switching flavors. -
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Re: Linux Sound
Sun, August 14, 2005 - 5:29 PMYeah, Ubuntu would be a good move for you :)
what do lsmod and lspci spit back at you? -
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Re: Linux Sound
Sun, August 14, 2005 - 7:11 PMman lsmod
man lspci
thay are some good friends of yours :)
Try them out and lets see what they spit back at you. You can cut n paste from your terminal no? -
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Re: Linux Sound
Sun, August 14, 2005 - 7:11 PMs/thay/they
<sigh> I should use preview...
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Re: Linux Sound
Sun, August 14, 2005 - 7:50 PMyou can also cat /proc/devices to see what is installed on the box. alsa and sound should be in there somewhere I believe. what you need to do is see if the sound card is recognized and if a driver is loaded for it. also finding if alsa was loaded by the kernel.
/proc is a pseudo filesystem that is an interface to the kernel. theres a lot to be gleaned off of /proc -
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Re: Linux Sound
Sun, August 14, 2005 - 9:10 PMShould I install Ubuntu first and see what happens then? -
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Re: Linux Sound
Sun, August 14, 2005 - 9:33 PMThat is up to you. I was just kidding around. It is a good distro, debian based but the commands for checking out whats under the hood are cross-distro :)
maybe check out whats going on with your current setup. -
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Re: Linux Sound
Sun, August 14, 2005 - 10:07 PMDoes this help?
[neema@localhost ~]$ lsmod
bash: lsmod: command not found
[neema@localhost ~]$ lspci
bash: lspci: command not found
[neema@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost neema]# lspci
bash: lspci: command not found
[root@localhost neema]# cat /proc/devices
Character devices:
1 mem
4 /dev/vc/0
4 tty
4 ttyS
5 /dev/tty
5 /dev/console
5 /dev/ptmx
6 lp
7 vcs
10 misc
13 input
14 sound
29 fb
116 alsa
128 ptm
136 pts
171 ieee1394
180 usb
Block devices:
1 ramdisk
2 fd
3 ide0
8 sd
9 md
65 sd
66 sd
67 sd
68 sd
69 sd
70 sd
71 sd
128 sd
129 sd
130 sd
131 sd
132 sd
133 sd
134 sd
135 sd
253 device-mapper
254 mdp -
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Re: Linux Sound
Sun, August 14, 2005 - 10:45 PMit does. first off you need to install lsmod and lspci. your kernel supports alsa though which is good news. get lsmod and lspci installed and we can investigate more. -
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Re: Linux Sound
Mon, August 15, 2005 - 5:32 AM[root@localhost neema]# ./configure &&
> make &&
> make install
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory -
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Re: Linux Sound
Mon, August 15, 2005 - 5:24 PMnow I'm not familiar with redhat/fedora but isn't there an rpm for lspci and lsmod?
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Re: Linux Sound
Sat, January 17, 2009 - 6:08 PMI had all sorts of problems with ubuntu, and Kubuntu simply didn't work. I tried OpenSUsE and am thrilled, hardly any problems at all.
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