[MPlayer-users] gmplayer audio don't work for controls redhat 8 and 9

[Attila Kinali]

On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 19:55:54 -0400
The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:

> > Hmm.. here we need the exact type of the soundcard, the kernel version,
> > the used driver (and it's version).
> 
> About what I'd guessed.
> 
> Kernel version is part of the general information requested in every 
> case, but the other two may be a bit more of a problem. As I said, my 
> sound card is actually a chip integrated into the motherboard; I can 
> give the manifacturer and model name/number, but I've got no idea what 
> driver is being used, and the only way I know of to even try to find out 
> more than is available through lspci -v involves restarting the system 

lspci -v is most times enough

> and reading the startup messages, which is scarcely an ideal solution. 
> ^_^ dmesg is of no use in this case, since the buffer it reads has been 
> getting flooded with network error messages from both known and unknown 
> causes, and the actual startup messges are long since gone.

every real distro writes kernel messages to a log file,
most have /var/log/kern.log, but at least it's logged also
to /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog (depending on your distro).


> > Bugreport writing is just a collecting of information that might be
> > usefull for a developer. If it's something that distinguishes your
> > enviroment from an other which doesnt show the problem or is a part
> > of hardware / software that is related to the problem then it should
> > be definitly be included in a bugreport
> 
> About what I figured... the trouble is A) that I'm not always as good as 
> I'd like to be at knowing what is/isn't related and B) that providing 
> just what I can determine to be related is frequently less than what's 
> requested by the documentation, and I don't like to go under spec 
> without knowing exactly what I'm doing. ^_^

*g*

			Attila Kinali

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