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    a few mandrake problems...

    hey guys, could do with a few pointers.. im sure im just being an idiot but im new to linux and am stuck...

    anyhow, installed mandrake 10.1 earlier, downloaded the nvidia nforce and graphics drivers... installed both.. followed the instructions in the readme files.. and ive got a few problems.

    1. i can only load X by logging in as root and doing 'modprobe nvidia', then running startx... linux doesnt seem to add this anywhere useful. in /etc/modules.conf i added the line 'alias sound-slot-0 nvsound', but i have no idea how to make linux load the nvidia driver...

    2. no sound! arg, i just cant work it out... followed the instructions in the readme, but nothing happens.. if i run nvmixer all the properties for it are all greyed out, and i have no idea what to do

    any ideas guys?

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    I'm noy %100 but I think mandrake uses hotplug and udev for modules and device nodes.

    does mandrake have an /etc/sysconfig/modules ?
    is there a startup script for udev.

    i'll have a look into this, but just check those quick things.
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    debian uses /etc/modules as a list of modules to load on boot. ask #mandrake on irc.freenode.net for an equivalent

    for sound, you need to ensure that you have OSS sound devices (nvsound, soundcore), but no ALSA devices (snd-*) if you want to use soundstorm as soundstorm rather than plain old stereo AC97 mode

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    ok.. added 'nvidia' to /etc/modprobe.preload and that seems to have got me into X without any problems ...

    can you explain the "for sound, you need to ensure that you have OSS sound devices (nvsound, soundcore), but no ALSA devices (snd-*) if you want to use soundstorm as soundstorm rather than plain old stereo AC97 mode" or give me a link so i can read up about what i need to do ? *sigh* linux never works for me...
    Last edited by streetster; 11-02-2005 at 12:45 AM.

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    linux has two sound driver architectures. OSS is the older system, ALSA is the newer system. nvidia's sound driver (nvsound) is an OSS module. OSS and ALSA don't get on well, so you only want to have one or the other loaded at any one time. 'lsmod | grep soundcore' in a terminal will report (for example) "soundcore 2342342 nvsound,snd" where the first one is an OSS module, and the second one an ALSA module

    also worth noting is that nf2 onboard is natively supported by the Intel i810 drivers - i810_audio for OSS, snd-intel8x0 for ALSA.

    so, any ALSA modules and any compatible OSS modules will conflict & cause issues.

    adding 'nvsound' to your modprobe.preload should go a long way towards helping

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    couple of screenies from the mandrake config tool :
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    could there be no sound because im using the spdif output of my motherboard? I just dont understand linux at all..

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    as shown in the second screenshot, you're using the snd-intel8x0 driver i mentionned. i don't speak fluent mandrakese, but as i said, if you want to use the closed-source nvidia driver (the one with soundstorm in it) you need to git it to use nvsound instead.

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    whever i tried to choose the nvaudio/nvsound driver, nothing happened, mandrake continued touse the snd-intel8x0 one... i just tried to install OSS but that has acheived nothing, so i'll format and start again this afternoon or sometime next week...

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    got bored.. reinstalled linux.. managed to get the sound working..

    commented out all references to the snd-intel8x0 in modprobe.conf, whacked 'nvsound' in /etc/modules... and viola some music, thanks guys

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