Re: Sound in KDE
On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 05:56, N. Raghavendra wrote:
> 2. Sound is not working in KDE. When KDE starts it produces the
> following error message in $HOME/.xsession-errors:
>
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)
>
> The properties of /dev/dsp are:
>
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 5 2000 /dev/dsp
>
> and the same is true of /dev/audio. I have added myself to the
> group 'audio' too. The sound card is an Intel on board card.
> According to sndconfig running on an identical RedHat machine,
> the model is "Intel Corporation|82820 820 (Camino 2) AC'97
> Audio". (The Debian packaged sndconfig does not recognise the
> same card on my machine.) I am running kernel-image-2.4.9-686
> with the following modules currently loaded: ide-cdi, cdrom,
> i810, agpgart, soundcore, rtc, eepro100, unix, ide-disk,
> ide-probe-mod, ide-mod, ext2.
Try modprobing ac97_codec and i8xx (not sure if this is the name since
I don't have the module built). If that works you may want to either
add char-major-14 as i8xx or just put it in /etc/modules to load at boot
time in the future. Also check /proc/devices to make sure sound is
there.
--mike
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