On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 09:47:27PM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote > why do you guys make it more complicated as it is?! > > Just write in the shell: > > rc-update add alsasound default
I *DO* have alsasound in my default. Since you obviously have not read the URL I pointed to, here is a partial quote... > I stopped esound (esd) and alsasound systems (this is under Gentoo). > Upon restarting the alsasound system, the low level sound driver > modules (snd_intel8x0m, snd_intel8x0, snd_ac97_codec, ac97_bus), > perhaps others, got loaded and they were not loaded when the "unable > to open slave" message was being generated. Subsequently mplayer > was able to load and play audio tracks. > > So this message may be associated with hardware level drivers being > unavailable for some reason. The problem seems to be a dependancy on some resource that is not available early on in the boot process. Re-starting the alsasound daemon later on works around that problem. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
