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| 462955 | 2006-06-14 05:09:00 | System Mandriva 2006, soundcard SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator, system using Soundcard driver SND-intel8x0, Kernel 2 . 6 . 12-12 mdksmp Volume settings on Aumix and Kmix and KsCD set at high . The speakers are OK as I use them on an adjacent Win 98 pc Visited 'www . alsa-project . org' and it seems I'm using the correct soundcard driver . Read the following at the site which left me a newbie completely lost:- 'You must turn on the sound support soundcore module . This is in the kernel . Look in the sound drivers directory and it should be the first option . Most people enable the module setting . . . . Most modern distros come with soundcore compiled as a module . You can check this in numerous ways . The easiest way is to type . modinfo soundcore If this command returns that you have this module, then you don't need to recompile your kernel . " Typed this command into the command line and tried 'soundcore -help' and got 'command not found'each time . Is the problem that the 'sound support soundcore module is not turned on or that the kernel needs recompiling? Not sure what to do now and would appreciate any suggestions . |
damien (7544) | ||
| 462956 | 2006-06-14 05:18:00 | "soundcore -help" will get an error: it's a loadable module, not a runnable programme (=command). Also "-help" is wrong ... "-" introduces single letter options; you need "--" for "long form" options. I'd be inclined to try modprobe soundcore. But that should not be necessary. Installation should have put entries in /etc/modules.conf or somewhere similar, to automatically load it. If you got that "command not found" error for the "modinfo soundcore" line, that probably means that you were not doing it as root. Operations like that are "system" and need root privilege, and, as important, the root PATH, so the command interpreter can find it. su - and give the root password to get the "#" prompt. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 462957 | 2006-06-14 11:10:00 | Thanks, entered the command as root and got this filename: /lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdksmp/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko.gz description: Core sound module author: Alan Cox license: GPL alias: char-major-14-* vermagic: 2.6.12-12mdksmp SMP 686 gcc-4.0 depends: Does this tell if the soundcore module is switched on? Or is there something else I need to do to increase the audio level? |
damien (7544) | ||
| 462958 | 2006-06-15 03:00:00 | That modinfo command just tells you that it exists, and what can be discovered about it from its internal documentation . lsmod will tell you if it's loaded . I guess that it is, because the sound is working, just quietly . ;) I also guess that it is working well, because Alan Cox is one of the cleverest guys around in the Linux world . So there's some other problem . I see that you are running a SMP version of the kernel (and that mdoule is the correct one for that kernel) . You do have a multiprocessor computer? ;) Does the sound "card" need any bios settings if it's part of the motherboard? There might be something silly like plugs on the back panel being multipurpose (acting as speaker outputs or mic/line inputs, depending on a setting) . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 462959 | 2006-06-15 11:13:00 | lsmod gave me nearly a page of data, unfortunately it didn't mean anything to me. I see a setting in the bios for the SIS OnChip PCI Device which is SIS-7012 AC97Audio. Will check to see if it's enabled. In case I do something wrong and can't get back here for a while thanks for your help. :blush: |
damien (7544) | ||
| 462960 | 2006-06-16 03:01:00 | lsmod gives you a list of loaded modules, and indicates how many "users" (other modules, usually) each has. Look for the name ... Sorry I can't really offer any more useful suggestions. I've never had trouble with the sound system ... it just works. As yours should. ;) |
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