Re: Audio player error (amarok)
Roger Creasy said...
> On 10/12/05, Jeremy Merritt <brookvegas@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > >
> > > > 'cat /proc/asound/cards' returns "No such file or
> > > > directory"
> >
> > --- marc <gmane@auxbuss.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > That's because you don't have a soundcard assigned
> > > to ALSA - which is
> > > what Gstreamer was telling you earlier, but it's
> > > best to check.
> > >
> > > Open the Control Centre/Sound & Multimedia/Sound
> > > System/Hardware
> > >
> > > Select ALSA in Select audio device and click apply.
> > > If that doesn't
> > > work, check your install of alsa-base.
> > >
> >
> > I did as you described above. I received a long error
> > message including "Error while initializing the sound
> > driver: device: default can't be opened for playback
> > (No such device)." I then installed alsa-base (&
> > alsa-utils), attempted to select ALSA as the audio
> > device again, and received the same message. Not sure
> > what to do at this point.
> >
>
> Have you run alsaconf?
Yup, run alsaconf - - then open alsamixer. By default, volume levels are
set to zero (or maximum attenuation for engineer-type folk :-) ). Use
alsactl store=3Frestore to save the settings.
--
Best,
Marc
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