Looping intro sound on version 3.3

[gigi188]

Hi, I did a search and found users reporting a looping intro sound on version 3.3. I have the same problem, and I am so new to Knoppix and Linux that I don't know how to stop it, other than turning off my speakers.


I have version 3.3 on a SOYO P4X400 Dragon Lite mother-board, with 256 megs of memory, a 2.2 GHz Celeron, and an Nvidia GeForce 2 MX400 64 meg video card. The sound card is a CM8738, and the driver that gets loaded automatically is called CMPCI. I tried loading the ALSA driver, but it loops the same, just at a lower volume

Something odd: The very first time I booted from the CD, I did NOT have this problem! But I've had it every single time afterwards.

Is there a way to kill the log-in sound and have the sound card function afterwards anyway? Something like the task manager in windows?

I *LOVE* what I see of Knoppix so far, but I need to resolve this sound issue. Thanks for any help!

Gigi 188

[gigi188]

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Gigi188

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Gigi188

If you can find the right process, you can kill it. Try from the command line

killall -9 artsd

If that doesn't work, run "top" from the command line. Do you see anything there that looks like it could be your sound playing? If so,

kill *pid number*

. If you don't see it there, you will need to look for the pid of the offending process like this.

ps aux |more

, then kill it.

[Stephen]

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Gigi188

If you can find the right process, you can kill it. Try from the command line

killall -9 artsd

If that doesn't work, run "top" from the command line. Do you see anything there that looks like it could be your sound playing? If so,

kill *pid number*

. If you don't see it there, you will need to look for the pid of the offending process like this.

ps aux |more

, then kill it.

lsof /dev/dsp can be of help as well it allows you to see the process controlling the DSP.