[SOLVED] No sound on Mageia2

[Garthhh]

HP dc5000, ensonique1371 soundblaster card
I have a Mageia 1 installed on a HDD that works fine, has sound
I removed the HDD, installed a blank one, installed Mageia2 on it, no sound

[tom_]

have you checked configuration, output devices and levels in

menu->sound-> pulseaudio volume control?

[Garthhh]

I did try the easy stuff
I have 2 of these PC's nearly identical
the other one uses the onboard sound chip
this one was missing the aux audiojacks, so no jumper for the headphones
I just plugged in a sound card
which was never a problem on Mageia1, just worked

[tom_]

MCC->hardware->soundcard should report

Vendor ID
Device ID
Driver Module

and should also have a 'run config tool' option.
could you post these values?

[Garthhh]

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Here you can select an alternative driver (either OSS or ALSA) for your sound card (Ensoniq|ES1371 [AudioPCI-97]).

Your card currently uses the ALSA "snd_ens1371" driver (the default driver for your card is "snd_ens1371")

[Garthhh]

tryed a different card same result
did a clean install of Mageia1, sound works on both sound cards
burned a dual arch cd, but I don't have time to sort out how lxde works, when I choose kde, I could only boot to CLI
did another clean install of mageia2 kde
configured media sources
no sound

[Ken-Bergen]

burned a dual arch cd, but I don't have time to sort out how lxde works, when I choose kde, I could only boot to CLI

That's hardly surprising as the Dual CD doesn't have KDE on it.
It does use the same installer as the DVD which gives you a choice of desktop environments but if you uncheck LXDE you have no Desktop installed even if you choose KDE or any other.

[Garthhh]

That's hardly surprising as the Dual CD doesn't have KDE on it.
It does use the same installer as the DVD which gives you a choice of desktop environments but if you uncheck LXDE you have no Desktop installed even if you choose KDE or any other.

Why is it called dual arch not LXDE?

[doktor5000]

Because from the dualarch you can install a minimal install of i586 and x86_64, both from one CD. No other media offers that, so it's called dualarch (dual architecture).

[Garthhh]

recap
hp dc5000, using external sound card
no sound on mageia2 kde
sound on mageia 2 gnome
both use the same driver

where would I find sound test on kde?
is it possible to uninstall/reinstall the sound card driver?

[tom_]

where would I find sound test on kde?

audio icon on the system tray, then click on 'mixer'

on the mixer form click on 'settings'-> Audio setup->audio hardware setup

[Garthhh]

thanks tom
pretty well stuck at this point
guess I'll have to build as M1

[Garthhh]

since I have a small pile of 40-60 g hdd's
I built up a 60g hdd with PClinuxOS [2010] sound worked
powered down went out of town for a few days
reinstalled the M2 hdd
sound works
can't explain it