KDE & /dev/dsp

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 05:50, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 09:43:21 +0200, Hannes Mayer wrote:
> 
> > I've got a problem with sound...
> > When I installed FC2test2 a few days ago, I didn't have any soundcard
> > in my test-box. Now I put some sound-card into it and sound doesn't work:
> > 
> > # lspci
> > [...]
> > 00:12.0 Multimedia Audio Controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 06)
> 
> Here it's:
> 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 07)
> 
> And "lspci -v"?
> 
> > # ls -al /dev/dsp*
> > crw------- 1 root root /dev/dsp
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root /dev/dsp0
> > crw------- 1 root root /dev/dsp1
> > crw------- 1 root root /dev/dsp56k
> 
> /dev/dsp* are only OSS-compatible device files. Native ALSA devices
> are /dev/snd/*
> 
> > Doesn't look that bad to me so far, but everytime I start KDE (also as root)
> > I get a requester, that /dev/dsp can't be opened (no such device)
> 
> Show output of "lsmod" and "/etc/modprobe.conf".
> 
> > "Soundcard Detection" in KDE correctly detects the card, but playing
> > the test-sound fails (I don't hear anything - no error message).
> > When I start "KMix", the mixer dropdown is empty.
> > 
> > I'm clueless ... I'm working on RedHat servers for 3 years now, but this
> > is my first time with sound ;-)
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any hints!!!
> 
> What results do you get when running redhat-config-soundcard?
Need to run system-config-soundcard with FC2T2, right?
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[root at matrix root]# system-config-soundcard
sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': No such device
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device
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I have a similar problem can't get sound to work.


> 
> 
> Btw, you hijacked the thread "Re: Kernel 2.6.5-1.309 & Nvidia & 4KSTACKS".
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Ernest L. Williams Jr. <ernesto at ornl.gov>