No sound in Drake 9.2

[Doogee]

Havent posted here in  a long time but just last night i decided to install Mandrake 9.2.

Everything has gone smoothly apart from, as the topic suggests, i have no sound.

The operating system seems to beleive i have a soundcard, and it is succesfully detected and is setup using alsa.

The problem is that when i play mp3s in xmms the little bars move as if i was playing the song but no sound comes out. There is no sound anywhere else either.

I have done the basic stuff like checking that the volume is up and that but to no avail, i still have no sound.

Any suggestions would be really great....

[Refalm]

I think I have a solution for you... but there's one problem: what soundcard do you have?

[Doogee]

C-Media 8738 its an onboard thing.

[Master of Reality]

try setting Xmms to use Alsa as the sound.

[Refalm]

quote:Doogee: C-Media 8738 its an onboard thing.

Maybe you should consider the official Linux driver.

[preacher]

First make sure nothing else is using the sound card.

#/sbin/fuser -u /dev/dsp

Artsd is often the culprit. Now kill that process and remove the sound module like this.

#rmmod "module"

Replace "module" with the name of your sound module. If you dont know, simply use harddrake and select your sound card. It should be listed under the information area.

To reinsert the sound module type:

#insmod "module"

This in effect resets the sound module and helps clear up many problems with the sound.

[Doogee]

still no sound. when i do rmmod "snd-smipci" it dsays the evice is in use but no out put comes out on the command thats meant to tell you wat is using a device.