Last Monday, for the first time, my server/workstation suddenly locked up; no keyboard or mouse response. Hanged, not resting. So, I shut off the system, waited a few seconds, powered on again. Got everything running again ... except for sound.
Alsamixer uses the correct sound card. Alsactrl init did nothing. When I try to play an .mp3 file with xmms I get this error: ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such ** file or directory mplayer also fails to produce sound: audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory Failed to initialize audio driver 'oss' There is no /dev/dsp or /dev/sound aplay -l finds the sound card. Web searches found no solution that worked because /dev/dsp does not exist on Slackware-14.1 until needed. However, root has no issue playing a .mp3 file with xmms, but produces the same mplayer error. What might I have missed here? Past reboots did not cripple the sound system as long as I turned up the volumn in alsamixer. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
