MillTek wrote:
MillTek wrote:
Jeff Elkins wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:31:38 -0500, MillTek wrote
Kent West wrote:
MillTek wrote:
Hi,
As a Linux noob, I have tried many many googling sessions to get
sound working on the Sarge 2.6.6 installation I have. My machine
has an Abit NF7-M motherboard with and NForce2 chipset. I tried
the Music player in the KDE menu (rhythmbox) and when I do I get
the following message;
osscommon: Unable to open /dev/dsp (in use ?)
Doers anyone have any idea exactly what steps I should follow to
get it wotking? I do know that the machine will work in 2.6.5
as I tried it under Knoppix and it was OK.
I would greatly appreciate some help.
Thanks
Jim
My guess is that the sound module is not being loaded. Try
running "modconf" and selecting the correct module for your sound
chipset.
Kent,
I loaded and ran modconf. There are a number of sound drivers
being loaded. What else can I try?
Thanks,
Jim
I wonder if it's a permission issue. When root can you play a sound
from the
command line? Try 'play something.wav' as root. You may need to
apt-get
install sox.
Jeff
OK,
I installed alsa-oss. Used the KDE control center to switch to using
ALSA and tried playing an mp3. It made sound for about 1 second and
stopped, however the timer kept going as if it was playing. Had a
power failure so had to reboot. Now I get an Informational artsmessage;
Error while initializing the sound driver
device: default can't be opened for playback (no such file or
directory) The sound server will continue using the null output
device.
We're nearly there!!
Jim
I found these enreies in my syslog - if this helps. The system does
seem to find the sound chips.
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel:
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: handlers:
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel:
[__crc_set_user_nice+1036933/6470000] (i810_interrupt+0x0/0x67
[i810_audio])
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: Disabling IRQ #20
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: i810_audio: Audio Controller
supports 6 channels.
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2
channel mode.
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id:
ALG32 (ALC650)
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0, new EID
value = 0x05c7
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0, DAC map
configured, total channels = 6
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: i810_audio: setting clocking to 48648
Jim
I went to install alsa-base from apt-get and I got this result;
apt-get install alsa-base
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
alsa-utils
Suggested packages:
apmd alsadriver
The following NEW packages will be installed:
alsa-base alsa-utils
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/175kB of archives.
After unpacking 614kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1:
field name `contains' must be followed by colon
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Anyone have any idea what this is about?
Jim