I have had similar problems with alsasound.
One problem is that the sound configuration in RH7 is rather different to
present day distros, so a little extra tweaking is required. The difference
is that RH7 runs the 2.2 kernel and alsa is written for the 2.4 kernel. So a
little hacking may be needed!
1 Check that the drivers are loaded
First run as root sndconfig to set up the sound card.
Then check /etc/modules.conf for something like:
alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371
or more likely
alias sound-slot-0 ens1371
Also run
/sbin/lsmod | grep ens1371
If a line like
snd-ens1371 12036 1
appears, this means that the driver is installed.
2 Did you start alsasound?
There should be a file in /etc/rc.d/init.d called alsasound. This loads
drivers and starts the server.
su to root and cd to /etc/rc.d/init.d (BTW, the file alsasound might be in
/etc/init.d)
run the command ./alsasound start
This will start the alsa server and activate the devices. If you do not see a
message to the effect that sound drivers are loaded or are present, you can
go no further until you get the drivers loaded. This will mean modifying
/etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound so that it loads the driver. This will not be
difficult.
If this works, insert symlinks with the name SXXalsasound and KXXalsasound in
the /etc/rc.d/rc3.d and /etc/rc.d/rc5.d to /etc/rc.d/init.d. (XX is a decimal
number - best choose a number not allocated to any other link). Alsasound
will now start on boot.
Try this out and post the results.
Hope this helps
Basil Fowler
On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 13:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I use a RH7 system and a creativelabs sound card that uses the ens1371
module.
> I installes the drivers and the utilities with no problem, but, when i try
to use mp3blaster it keeps telling me "unable to open sound device".
> I have tried change the permissions for each device (mixer0, dsp0, etc)
using chmod 777 device; but with no result.
>
> could anyone help me please ?
>
> best regards
>
> David Valiente
> Media-Breaker.com
>
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