Hello all, I encountered the following message on my FC5: "Informational - artsmessage Sound server informational messsage: Error while initializing the sound driver device: default can't be opened for capture (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue using the null output device" I didn't change anything, the message just showed up in KDE when I started the computer. Below are the outputs of lsmod and dmesg. Please advice how can I get rid of this and restore the sound. Thank you in advance Regards, Dragos Module Size Used by i915 22465 1 drm 74069 2 i915 autofs4 20421 1 hidp 15681 2 rfcomm 35673 0 l2cap 22849 10 hidp,rfcomm bluetooth 49317 5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap sunrpc 148349 1 nf_conntrack_netbios_ns 3265 0 nf_conntrack_ipv4 17613 1 xt_state 2753 1 nf_conntrack 57745 3 nf_conntrack_netbios_ns,nf_conntrack_ipv4,xt_state nfnetlink 7001 2 nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack ipt_REJECT 4801 2 xt_tcpudp 3393 8 iptable_filter 3265 1 ip_tables 11913 1 iptable_filter x_tables 14661 4 xt_state,ipt_REJECT,xt_tcpudp,ip_tables video 16069 0 sbs 15232 0 i2c_ec 5185 1 sbs dock 10265 0 container 4673 0 button 8017 0 battery 10053 0 asus_acpi 16605 0 backlight 6337 1 asus_acpi ac 5316 0 ipv6 249473 18 lp 12425 0 parport_pc 26341 1 parport 34697 2 lp,parport_pc snd_intel8x0 31709 1 snd_ac97_codec 89573 1 snd_intel8x0 ac97_bus 2625 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_dummy 4037 0 sg 33373 0 snd_seq_oss 29377 0 serio_raw 7109 0 ide_cd 36833 0 i2c_i801 8013 0 e100 33737 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7361 1 snd_seq_oss i2c_core 21057 2 i2c_ec,i2c_i801 mii 5569 1 e100 snd_seq 45873 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event ehci_hcd 30549 0 snd_seq_device 8013 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq uhci_hcd 22865 0 snd_pcm_oss 39905 0 snd_mixer_oss 15681 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 71365 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 21317 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 49733 11 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 7841 1 snd snd_page_alloc 10057 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm cdrom 33505 1 ide_cd iTCO_wdt 11269 0 iTCO_vendor_support 4037 1 iTCO_wdt pcspkr 3393 0 dm_snapshot 16881 0 dm_zero 2241 0 dm_mirror 21205 0 dm_mod 53773 8 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror ext3 120009 2 jbd 56041 1 ext3 ata_piix 15173 2 libata 100825 1 ata_piix sd_mod 20161 3 scsi_mod 134253 3 sg,libata,sd_mod Linux version 2.6.20-1.2316.fc5 (<a href="mailto:brewbuilder@ls20-bc2-14.build.redhat.com"> brewbuilder@ls20-bc2-14.build.redhat.com</a>) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #1 Fri Apr 27 19:49:38 EDT 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: sanitize start sanitize end copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 000000000009f800 end: 000000000009f800 type: 1 copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM copy_e820_map() start: 000000000009f800 size: 0000000000000800 end: 00000000000a0000 type: 2 copy_e820_map() start: 00000000000f0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 0000000000100000 type: 2 copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000100000 size: 000000001eef0000 end: 000000001eff0000 type: 1 copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM copy_e820_map() start: 000000001eff0000 size: 0000000000003000 end: 000000001eff3000 type: 4 copy_e820_map() start: 000000001eff3000 size: 000000000000d000 end: 000000001f000000 type: 3 copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fec00000 size: 0000000001400000 end: 0000000100000000 type: 2 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001eff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000001eff0000 - 000000001eff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000001eff3000 - 000000001f000000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 495MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at 000f5060 Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 126960) 0 entries of 256 used Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 4096 Normal 4096 -> 126960 HighMem 126960 -> 126960 early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 0 -> 126960 On node 0 totalpages: 126960 DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 959 pages used for memmap Normal zone: 121905 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap DMI 2.3 present. Using APIC driver default ACPI: RSDP (v000 GBT ) @ 0x000f69e0 ACPI: RSDT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x1eff3000 ACPI: FADT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x1eff3040 ACPI: MADT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x1eff6ec0 ACPI: DSDT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] dfl dfl lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] dfl dfl lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 1f000000:dfc00000) Detected 2813.898 MHz processor. Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 125969 Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet ramdisk_size=32000 mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000) mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000) Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c0720000 soft=c071f000 PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes) Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Memory: 497412k/507840k available (2091k kernel code, 9852k reserved, 846k data, 232k init, 0k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xfff9b000 - 0xfffff000 ( 400 kB) pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB) vmalloc : 0xdf800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 511 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xdeff0000 ( 495 MB) .init : 0xc06e0000 - 0xc071a000 ( 232 kB) .data : 0xc060ac8d - 0xc06de614 ( 846 kB) .text : 0xc0400000 - 0xc060ac8d (2091 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5629.24 BogoMIPS (lpj=2814624) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Initializing. SELinux: Starting in permissive mode selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized as secondary Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000 00000000 monitor/mwait feature present. using mwait in idle threads. CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebf3ff 00000000 00000000 00003180 0000441d 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz stepping 01 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. ACPI: Core revision 20060707 ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 NET: Registered protocol family 16 ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb090, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 Setting up standard PCI resources ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) Boot video device is 0000:00:02.0 PCI quirk: region 1000-107f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO PCI quirk: region 1080-10bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO 0000:00:1f.2: trying to change BAR0 from 0000 to 01F0 0000:00:1f.2: trying to change BAR1 from 0000 to 03F4 0000:00:1f.2: trying to change BAR2 from 0000 to 0170 0000:00:1f.2: trying to change BAR3 from 0000 to 0374 PCI: Firmware left 0000:01:08.0 e100 interrupts enabled, disabling PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 *6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report NetLabel: Initializing NetLabel: domain hash size = 128 NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4 NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default PCI: Ignore bogus resource 6 [0:0] of 0000:00:02.0 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00: 1e.0 IO window: a000-afff MEM window: f8000000-f80fffff PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 5, 163840 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 8192) TCP reno registered checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 1823k freed apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: overridden by ACPI. audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1180077432.618:1): initialized Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks ksign: Installing public key data Loading keyring - Added public key 25F61B5382879C57 - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key) io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on) ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (22 C) isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected an Intel 865 Chipset. agpgart: Detected 16252K stolen memory. agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A 00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A 00:08: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 4096 blocksize input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx Probing IDE interface ide0... hdb: _NEC CD-ROM CD-3002A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1: I/O resource 0x170-0x177 not free. ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1 TCP bic registered Initializing XFRM netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Using IPI Shortcut mode ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5) Freeing unused kernel memory: 232k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 585k Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. SCSI subsystem initialized libata version 2.00 loaded. ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.00ac7 ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ IDE IDE P0 P1 ] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00: 1f.2[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 ata: 0x1F0 IDE port busy ata: conflict with ide0 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64 ata1: DUMMY ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xF008 irq 15 scsi0 : ata_piix scsi1 : ata_piix ata2.00: ATA-6, max UDMA/133, 312579695 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata2.00: ata2: dev 0 multi count 16 ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3160827AS 3.42 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 SCSI device sda: 312579695 512-byte hdwr sectors (160041 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA SCSI device sda: 312579695 512-byte hdwr sectors (160041 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: sda1 sda2 sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: <a href="mailto:dm-devel@redhat.com">dm-devel@redhat.com</a> input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input2 kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. SELinux: Disabled at runtime. SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks audit(1180077435.708:2): selinux=0 auid=4294967295 input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input3 iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0 iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.01 (11-Nov-2006) iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH5 or ICH5R TCO device (Version=1, TCOBASE=0x1060) iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0) intel_rng: FWH not detected USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 17, io base 0x0000b000 usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00: 1d.1 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 18, io base 0x0000b400 usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.17-k2-NAPI e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 16, io base 0x0000b800 usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected hdb: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00: 1d.3[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 17, io base 0x0000bc00 usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00: 1d.7[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5 PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 19, io mem 0xf8180000 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 20 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64 intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 50710 usecs intel8x0: clocking to 48000 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:08.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xf8000000, irq 21, MAC addr 00:0F:EA:F0:FF:56 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3 [B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 20 floppy0: no floppy controllers found parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). lp0: console ready NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions Mobile IPv6 input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input4 ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input5 ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB] No dock devices found. ibm_acpi: ec object not found md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Adding 1015800k swap on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1015800k ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30. nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (3967 buckets, 31736 max) e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11 NET: Registered protocol family 31 Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8 Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8 Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.1 eth0: no IPv6 routers present [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00: 02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0