[plug] Mandrake LE2005 Sound

[David Dartnall]

Chris Griffin wrote:

> Now, now Dave, I would have thought you would have more patience after 
> all these years.
>
> Chris Griffin
>
> On 9/23/05, *David Dartnall* <darts at dialix.com.au 
> <mailto:darts at dialix.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     I've had an absolute gutful of trying to get consistency in the
>     sound system.
>
>     The sound is on the motherboard, ICH4 845G/GL Chipset AC'97 Audio
>     Controller, maybe my problems relate to this.
>     My last report to this list was of thanks to those of you who
>     offered help. I had sound for mouth, playing cd's and headphones
>     and mike worked, but no midi. I was able to complete one skype-out
>     call and now nothing - seems as though KDE takes control, /dev/dsp
>     in use by another process, and amarok returns the message 'The
>     file or folder /Full CD does not exist' but indicates that the
>     sound is being played.
>
>     It's too bloody complicated for me!
>
>     MAybe I should buy a sound card (with hardware synth to avoid
>     further difficulty when I finally get consistent sound and have to
>     move on to Rosegardsen's synth and sound font requirements).
>
>     Is anyone able to advise on a suitable card please?
>
Thanks Chris - You'll keep
Thanks also for the advice re SoundBlaster cards. I'll buy one.

Further to the above though:
Sequence of events:

 Skype running
 No sound
 Return KDE sound system to 'defaults'
 message 'error initialising sound driver.. Device or resource busy..'
 No sound
 Close skype
 Return KDE sound system to 'defaults'
 Sound back
 Open skype
 make successful call to home phone
 try again to home phone unsuccessful - 'Call failed'
 Again no system sound...

regards
DD