I have upgraded to KDE 2.2 beta on my Mandrake 8.0 system. Of course, to do
this required that I upgrade a number of other things to meet dependencies.
Somewhere in all this I have lost sound.
I have an AOpen AK72 mobo with an Athlon 700 and builtin AC97 via686a sound.
It has worked fine in the past with Mandrake 7.1 - 8.0. It was working
recently as well when I was running KDE 2.2 alpha. Now, since upgrading to
KDE beta, it no longer works. Incidently, I also have a laptop (IBM
Thinkpad) running Mandrake 8.0 (plus KDE 2.2 beta). It has a builtin Ess
Solo1 soundsystem which has worked find in the past too - until upgrading to
KDE beta. Both these systems show the same error message on starting KDE:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: /dev/dsp can't be opened (Invalid argument)
Huh? Has something changed drastically recently from the way sound is
handled in KDE 2.2 alpha and KDE 2.2 beta? My kernel and its drivers appear
not to matter at all - upgrading to KDE beta (and perhaps its attendent rpm
dependencies - all billion of them) screws up sound. Has anyone else run
into this? If so, have you fixed it? There still is a /dev/dsp on my
system, it hasn't changed.
