three tricky problems

AntonPetts · 2008-06-30 02:39:17

This far I'm very happy with Archlinux. There's just these three things bugging me, I just can't seem to get it right on my own .

1. First and most important is to get sound working, I installed oss with some help from the wiki without problems. But when it comes to configuring it, well that's another story . I have 5:1 speakers and using the soundcard from my graphics card (geforce 8600). I've played around in ossxmix and eventually got sound from all speakers. BUT with alot of static and only with my headphones plugged in (if I unplug them I get a really high pitch noise which was nearly enough to blow my eardrums, I was holding a speaker next to my ear, mind you ). I also can't get it to autostart, haven't really tried yet though.

2. Mimetypes aren't recognized, I've the right packages installed (I think), I'm really clueless on this one. [SOLVED]

3. This is probably the easiest one: After starting the computer I don't get any internet-connection, however running "dhcpcd eth0" helps. How do I get it running normally? [SOLVED]

Thanks in advance

Last edited by AntonPetts (2008-06-30 21:17:06)

SamC · 2008-06-30 03:53:58

For the third, you need to set up the relevant section in /etc/rc.conf. This should work:

eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0)

Of course, use that to replace whatever is there now.

tigrmesh · 2008-06-30 04:21:17

For the second, if you are using gnome or pcmanfm, you are probably experiencing this bug: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10734. It will be fixed by installing shared-mime-info 0.30, which should be hitting the repo mirrors right about now.

To get OSS to autostart, put oss-linux-free in the daemons line of rc.conf.

kclive18 · 2008-06-30 15:55:14

For the mime types problem, I found this in the wiki:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cha … n_via_MIME

Hope that helps.

AntonPetts · 2008-06-30 20:06:54

SamC wrote:

For the third, you need to set up the relevant section in /etc/rc.conf. This should work:
eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0)
Of course, use that to replace whatever is there now.

To get OSS to autostart, put oss-linux-free in the daemons line of rc.conf.

I knew it would be something that simple

For the mime types problem, I found this in the wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cha … n_via_MIME
Hope that helps.

Not sure which part of that did it (I'd guess it was the last command) but it works now , thanks!

Just the sound left now, I've reset the settings (i.e. no sound at all) and I'm starting from scratch.

output of ossinfo:

Number of audio devices:    6
Number of audio engines:    10
Number of mixer devices:    1


Device objects
 0: osscore0 OSS core services
 1: hdaudio0 nVidia HD Audio interrupts=1136869 (1136869)
    HD Audio controller nVidia HD Audio
    Vendor ID    0x10de055c
    Subvendor ID 0x10438290
     Codec  0: ALC662 (0x10ec0662/0x10438290)
 2: ossusb0 USB audio core services


Mixer devices
 0: High Definition Audio ALC662 (Mixer 0 of device object 1)

Audio devices
HD Audio play front               /dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcm0  (device index 0)
HD Audio play rear                /dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcm1  (device index 1)
HD Audio play center/LFE          /dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcm2  (device index 2)
HD Audio play spdif-out           /dev/oss/hdaudio0/spdout0  (device index 3)
HD Audio rec mix                  /dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcmin0  (device index 4)
HD Audio rec mix                  /dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcmin1  (device index 5)

output of osstest:

Sound subsystem and version: OSS 4.0 (b1016/200806292145) (0x00040003)
Platform: Linux/x86_64 2.6.25-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jun 14 17:44:19 CEST 2008

*** Scanning sound adapter #-1 ***
/dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcm0 (audio engine 0): HD Audio play front
- Performing audio playback test... 
  <left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47963.00 Hz (-0.08%)> 
/dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcm1 (audio engine 1): HD Audio play rear
- Performing audio playback test... 
  <left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47963.00 Hz (-0.08%)> 
/dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcm2 (audio engine 2): HD Audio play center/LFE
- Performing audio playback test... 
  <left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47963.00 Hz (-0.08%)> 
/dev/oss/hdaudio0/spdout0 (audio engine 3): HD Audio play spdif-out
- Performing audio playback test... 
  <left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47966.00 Hz (-0.07%)> 
/dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcmin0 (audio engine 4): HD Audio rec mix
- Skipping input only device
/dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcmin1 (audio engine 5): HD Audio rec mix
- Skipping input only device

*** All tests completed OK ***

ossdetect -v

Detected Nvidia High Definition Audio (MCP67)
Detected Generic USB audio device (BETA)

Last edited by AntonPetts (2008-06-30 20:32:49)

AntonPetts · 2008-06-30 22:06:49

I'm sorry about double posting. However I changed some settings and now get 2:1 sound without static. But if I run osstest I actually do get sound from the last 3 speakers, output:

*** Scanning sound adapter #-1 ***
/dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcm0 (audio engine 0): HD Audio play front
- Performing audio playback test... 
  <left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47963.00 Hz (-0.08%)> 
/dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcm1 (audio engine 1): HD Audio play rear
- Performing audio playback test... 
  <left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47966.00 Hz (-0.07%)> 
/dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcm2 (audio engine 2): HD Audio play center/LFE
- Performing audio playback test... 
  <left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47966.00 Hz (-0.07%)> 
/dev/oss/hdaudio0/spdout0 (audio engine 3): HD Audio play spdif-out
- Performing audio playback test... 
  <left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47963.00 Hz (-0.08%)> 
/dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcmin0 (audio engine 4): HD Audio rec mix
- Skipping input only device
/dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcmin1 (audio engine 5): HD Audio rec mix
- Skipping input only device

Any ideas on how to change settings accordingly?

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