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From: Alexander Puchmayr <alexander.puchmayr@×××××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sound... a known method to track down problems
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:49:08
Message-Id: 200603011838.16979.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Sound... a known method to track down problems by Harry Putnam
1 Hi Harry!
2
3 Did you load the alsa-modules before launching kde?
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5 Try /etc/init.d/alsasound start as root and then have a look what dmesg is
6 telling you and whether /proc/asound/cards contains anything different from
7 a empty string.
8
9 Second, your should configure your kde to use alsa. Go into the control
10 panel, audio settings (Sound&Multimedia), Sound-System, select the
11 hardware-tab and make sure that audio hardware is set to alsa and not oss.
12
13 Good luck
14 Alex
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19 Am Mittwoch, 1. März 2006 17:42 schrieb Harry Putnam:
20 > Sorry to just blurt right out with this... I'm in need of sound on my
21 > unix box and kind of quickly. I never even configure sound or want it
22 > as a rule but now I need it to test some recording equipment on a
23 > second winxp computer with m-audio delta-66 installed.
24 >
25 > I get this message when starting kde. I just ignore it normally but I
26 > guess it is telling me something usefull for getting sound up:
27 >
28 > Sound server informational message:
29 > Error while initializing the sound driver:
30 > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)
31 > The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
32 >
33 > This is an Asus K8V mobo with soundmax built in.
34 >
35 > Further info:
36 > Attempting to `play' a *.wav file:
37 > reader > play sonny_boy2a/TooCloseTogether_SonnyBoyWilliamson2.wav
38 > ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
39 > ALSA lib conf.c:3491:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver
40 > returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat)
41 > error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:3491:(_snd_config_evaluate)
42 > function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device ALSA lib
43 > confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
44 > ALSA lib conf.c:3491:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
45 > returned error: No such device ALSA lib conf.c:3960:(snd_config_expand)
46 > Evaluate error: No such device ALSA lib
47 > pcm.c:2107:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
48 > sox: Failed writing default: cannot open audio device
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