I guess my Mandrake upgrade (8.0 --> 8.1) problems are not over yet. Ever since
upgrading, I have no sound. It didn't really bother me since I rarely play
music on the computer and sound is not a high priority, but since I'm home sick
today, I decided to look into the problem. The various things I tried were from
previous experience or from ideas I found on Google - but I still haven't found
the solution.
Here's what I found:
1- The Mandrake Control Center identifies my sound card:
Vendor: ESS Technology
Model: ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive
Kernel Module: snd-card-es1938
Bus Type: PCI
But when it says it's playing a sound, I don't hear anything.
2 - I tried running sndconfig from Konsole and the card was again identified as
above. But the next screen gave the following:
The ESS Technology|ES1969 Solo-1 ?
? Audiodrive is not currently supported.
That's nonsense - the card worked in Mandrake 8.0 so I don't believe support
was removed in 8.1.
3 - I tried running artsd from Konsole and got:
[root@shlomo1 root]# artsd
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)
4 - This is really strange, because the device does exist:
[root@shlomo1 root]# ls -la /dev/dsp
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 3 Aug 30 09:54 /dev/dsp
5 - I then looked at the artsd dependancies. I admit to not really undrstanding
this, but it **looks** OK - am I missing something?
[root@shlomo1 root]# ldd /usr/bin/artsd
libsoundserver_idl.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsoundserver_idl.so.0 (0x4002c000)
libkmedia2_idl.so.0 => /usr/lib/libkmedia2_idl.so.0 (0x40069000)
libartsflow.so.0 => /usr/lib/libartsflow.so.0 (0x400a0000)
libartsflow_idl.so.0 => /usr/lib/libartsflow_idl.so.0 (0x40105000)
libaudiofile.so.0 => /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.0 (0x40170000)
libasound.so.1 => /usr/lib/libasound.so.1 (0x40193000)
libmcop_mt.so.0 => /usr/lib/libmcop_mt.so.0 (0x401ad000)
libmcop.so.0 => /usr/lib/libmcop.so.0 (0x401b1000)
libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x40272000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40284000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40288000)
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
(0x4029f000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x402e8000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4030b000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
6 - I then checked the sound module. This time, I do see a problem, but I don't
know why I'm getting these error messages.
[root@shlomo1 root]# insmod snd-card-es1938
Using /lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o.gz: unresolved symbol
snd_solo_create_Re3d4493b
/lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o.gz: unresolved symbol
snd_solo_new_pcm_R9158a7b1
/lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o.gz: unresolved symbol
snd_solo_interrupt_Re1fb5361
/lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o.gz: unresolved symbol
snd_solo_new_mixer_R19677f84
I even tried downloading and re-installing kdelibs and kdemultimedia - in case
there was an incompatibility in the versions
Any ideas?
TIA
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Date: 27-Jan-2002 Time: 09:49:16
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