On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 18:02, elmer magsino wrote: > ...i still have a hard > time configuring my sound card. here are the details. > > sound card model: Via Technnologies IVT8233 AC97 Audio > Controller > > Under the Sound Server - Control Center > under the Sound I/O tab I assume this is under KDE? I'm sorry since I haven't used KDE in awhile. > > Sound I/O method: > sound server info message: > > Error while initalizing the sound driver > device /dev/dsp cant be opened (Resource temporarily > unavailable) One possibility is that /dev/dsp doesn't have the right permission for you to use it as non-root. I experience this with Slackware from 8.0 to 9.1. What Distribution are you using? Anyway, check the permission for /dev/dsp (if it's a sym link, whatever it's pointing to), and (as root) make it rw-rw-rw (chmod 666 /dev/dsp). Sometimes that's all that's the problem. Sometimes not. > the sound server will continue using the null output > device > > i also checked /etc/modules.conf and the following are > displayed > > (...deleted...) > alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio This seems to be the right module for your Via AC97 Audio. Can you "lsmod" as root and see if the module is loaded? If it is, "rmmod" it, then "modprobe" it to see if there's any error on loading. If not, then the problem might simply be the permission I mentioned above for /dev/dsp, or simply volume problem. But it still might be that the module isn't loading for some strange reason so try this as well.
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