Walter Dnes wrote:
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.
This may be waaay off here, do you have that parallel start up thing
turned on? You know, where multiple services can be started at the same
time without waiting for the startup to complete. I read somewhere a
while back where some were having various trouble but not lately. If
you do, may want to try it with it turned off and see if that helps.
Just something to think about just in case.
Dale
:-) :-)
