sound don't work at all

[oui]

bonjour
it is possible to repeat partially the installation only of this point?
salut


using Vector Linux 5.1 STD on DELL Optiflex SX270 with Celeron and Intel Chip Set

[Triarius Fidelis]

Have you checked the mixer settings? Sound may simply be muted and/or volume turned down.

[oui]

bonjour

I did try it but the mixer starts but don't stay open on the screen.

are the settings also to find in a file and to edit manually?

salut

[Triarius Fidelis]

bonjour

I did try it but the mixer starts but don't stay open on the screen.

are the settings also to find in a file and to edit manually?

salut

Which mixer did you use? Try 'alsamixer' (at the command line). To unmute a channel, you simply press 'M' when it's selected. You can see whether a channel is muted by the two characters that appear at the bottom of the channel level: when a channel is muted, so will you see 'MM' in pale blue.

Any GUI mixer program would work though. Which one did you use? Did it simply disappear because you moved your mouse away from the window, and the window lost focus?

[oui]

bonjour

I did reinstall a 3rd time to try the 2 offered options of sound card.

at boot time comes an error message:

after the comment
"initializing hardware"
comes
"setting up modules failed"

by starting the alsamixer in aterm comes the error message
"function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory"

i did look for an other newer version of Vector Linux 5.1 STD but it seems that this version is abandoned?

salut

[Triarius Fidelis]

Hmmm...

What kind of sound card do you have?

[oui]

bonjour

under m$-windows XP, the sound card announced by the system is legacy

but vl says at installation time "no legacy cards found" (and the other option, "intel08x0 82801EB/ER ICH5/ICH5R" don't work better)

all the other things of vl seem to work properly.

salut

[Triarius Fidelis]

Crap, is that an old ISA PnP card you have?

[oui]

bonjour

I don't know, and did never have problems with sound in linux but other problems (i have slackware 12, xubuntu, the newest version, knoppix, and puppy linux, and i did erase zen linux by installing vector)!

for this reason my knowledge concerning sound is really little: sound works always! I don't know where are the files with the parameters for sound or sound card or sound protocol!

my PC is not new but not absolutely old (celeron 2 gHz, ram 1 Mb, HD 80 Mb) but it is more the conception of a laptop (it is not a laptop but as the same size) as of a tower!

salut

[Triarius Fidelis]

for this reason my knowledge concerning sound is really little: sound works always! I don't know where are the files with the parameters for sound or sound card or sound protocol!

Hmm...

What does /sbin/lspci say?

[oui]

bonjour

What does /sbin/lspci say?

lspci did find the equipment of the pc made of Intel stuff (82865/PE/P DRAM/Host-Hub Interf., 82801EB/ER USB, LPC Bridge, Ultra ATA 100 Storage, SMBus Contr., AC'97 Audio Contr., 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER PCI Bridge,  82540EM Ethernet

salut

[Triarius Fidelis]

I have the same model of sound card. What happens when you type 'modprobe snd-via82xx' as root?

[oui]

bonjour

thank you for the formidable patience!

"init_module: No such device" "insmod failed"

salut

[oui]

bonjour

bonjour
it is possible to repeat partially the installation only of this point?
salut


using Vector Linux 5.1 STD on DELL Optiflex SX270 with Celeron and Intel Chip Set

today I had time to download and install the Vector Linux 5.9RC3 STD and Vector Linux 5.8 STD

5.9 don't install at all  , but 5.8 works very good including sound without any difficulty) so I will use it now. thank you for your help

surprise: it seems that the use of the seamonkey suite is obligatory! I don't understand why... but the other parts are beautiful!

salut

[easuter]

surprise: it seems that the use of the seamonkey suite is obligatory! I don't understand why... but the other parts are beautiful!

Firefox is also included with VL 5.8. You can use the GSlapt package manager to install Thunderbird as well, if thats your prefered email client