jhipkiss

I had Mandrake 9.2 on my PC and the sound was fine, when I upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 I lost all sound and when I boot it complains that it can't find a sound card. The sound is part of the motherboard which is a Soltec SL-85DRV5-C When I logon I get this in a popup entitled "Informational - artsmessage": Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. Any ideas? I'm fairly new to Linux so am unsure where to start first. Thanks for any advice. Jonathan

FYI this fixed itself when I upgraded to Mandrake 10 community edition!

Quote: Quote: No why? Because if you did, it could have been related to a temperature problem associated with a faulty fan. Other noises can be indicative of hard drive problems which can, in some instances, cause the problem you mention. I don't think it's this. It's a fairly new machine and it's fine under Windows. Also, I can leave it running all night and there's no problem, it's only when I start doing stuff.

Quote: Have you been hearing any strange noises emanating from within your box? No why? Everything works fine when I boot under XP BTW.

I've recently installed Mandrake 9.2 on my main machine, however every so often everything just freezes and the only way out is to hit the reset button!!! Does anyone have any ideas on how to start trouble shooting this? It doesn't have any recognisable pattern nor is it liked to running any particular software, this problem has no prejudices!!!! It is however making the machine unuseable, as I can probably only work for 10 or may be 20 minutes before it all locks up! H E L P!!!!! Thanks Jonathan