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On 1/27/06, Rafael Barrera Oro <borafael@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hello everyone! I have Via on-board sound and i cant get the audio to work. |
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> At first the problem was that /dev/dsp did not exist, so i loaded a |
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> couple of modules into the kernel (mostly following www.gentoo.org |
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> alsa-guide) after that, the error message became "could not open |
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> /dev/dsp permission denied" so i tryied chmod a+rw /dev/sound/dsp |
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> (also from gentoo docs) nevertheless, i stillo have no sound. For |
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> example when using XMMS if choose to use the Alsa driver, an error |
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> pops up telling me "failed to open audio output: Alsa plugin", so i |
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> choose Arts which doesnt trigger any errors but there is stillo no |
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> sound!! |
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> i ran "lspci |grep audio" and this is what returned |
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> 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. |
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> VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) |
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> i had all the necessary kernel options (according to the gentoo doc) |
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> built-in in the kernel, including AC97 so i am out of ideas. |
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> If anyone has any clue of what i should do, it would be greatly apprecieated. |
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> Thanks in advance |
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> Rafael |
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Try putting your user in the audio group |
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Andrés |
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