ARTS sound message!

[Christian Convey]

> 
> From: Bolívar <bolivar.de at terra.com.br>
> Date: 2004/06/11 Fri PM 08:00:31 EDT
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: ARTS sound message!
> 
> This is driving me nuts! Upon starting KDE, this window appear...
> 
> Sound Server informational message:
> Error while initializing the sound driver.
> device: default can´t be opened for playback(no such device)
> The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
> 
> My sound card is a via82xx, been googling around, found several possible 
> fixes, none works.
> The only fix I found, is to start the sound card detection tool and click 
> "test", but sometimes it works, sometimes don´t. Help!

I was having the problem you describe. Today I upgraded to kde 3.2.3 (RPMs linked to from kde.org), and the 2.6.6-1.427smp kernel (using up2date), and the problem seems to have gone away.  I'm not sure whether or not doing just one of those upgrades would have solved the problem.