Re: kernel 2.6.3, emu10k1, no sound

[Walt Nelson <wnelsonjr@comcast.net>]

I had problems with 2.6.2 and .3 if you goto 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 or1 they go away.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.4-rc1/2.6.4-rc1-mm2/

bzip2 -dc /path/patch | patch -p1

Walt

On Wednesday 03 March 2004 07:54 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:49:54PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> > Can anyone shed some light here? I compiled alsa in the kernel (y, not
> > as m), with emu10k1 (I have a sound blaster). Now I get the following:
> >
> > Couldn't open mixer device /dev/sound/mixer
> > (from the gnome applett)
> > and from the volume control:
> > Unable to open audio device '/dev/mixer'.
> > Please check that you have permissions to open '/dev/mixer'
> > and that you have sound support in your kernel.
> >  However:
> > tony@hpd:~$ ls -l /dev/dsp
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     audio           9 2003-10-08 15:58 /dev/dsp ->
> > /dev/dsp0 tony@hpd:~$ ls -l /dev/mixer
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     audio          11 2003-10-08 15:58 /dev/mixer ->
> > /dev/mixer0
> >
> > Any ideas would be welcome.
>
> Let me add another etail: I just started wmaker, and it there is sound
> there. I am playing alsaplayer there right now. So it is some issue
> with gnome or so.