Hi Harry!
Did you load the alsa-modules before launching kde?
Try /etc/init.d/alsasound start as root and then have a look what dmesg is
telling you and whether /proc/asound/cards contains anything different from
a empty string.
Second, your should configure your kde to use alsa. Go into the control
panel, audio settings (SoundMultimedia), Sound-System, select the
hardware-tab and make sure that audio hardware is set to alsa and not oss.
Good luck
Alex
Am Mittwoch, 1. März 2006 17:42 schrieb Harry Putnam:
Sorry to just blurt right out with this... I'm in need of sound on my
unix box and kind of quickly. I never even configure sound or want it
as a rule but now I need it to test some recording equipment on a
second winxp computer with m-audio delta-66 installed.
I get this message when starting kde. I just ignore it normally but I
guess it is telling me something usefull for getting sound up:
Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
This is an Asus K8V mobo with soundmax built in.
Further info:
Attempting to `play' a *.wav file:
reader play sonny_boy2a/TooCloseTogether_SonnyBoyWilliamson2.wav
ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3491:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver
returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat)
error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:3491:(_snd_config_evaluate)
function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device ALSA lib
confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3491:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
returned error: No such device ALSA lib conf.c:3960:(snd_config_expand)
Evaluate error: No such device ALSA lib
pcm.c:2107:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
sox: Failed writing default: cannot open audio device
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