KDE & /dev/dsp

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 09:43:21 +0200, Hannes Mayer wrote:

> I've got a problem with sound...
> When I installed FC2test2 a few days ago, I didn't have any soundcard
> in my test-box. Now I put some sound-card into it and sound doesn't work:
> 
> # lspci
> [...]
> 00:12.0 Multimedia Audio Controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 06)

Here it's:
00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 07)

And "lspci -v"?

> # ls -al /dev/dsp*
> crw------- 1 root root /dev/dsp
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root /dev/dsp0
> crw------- 1 root root /dev/dsp1
> crw------- 1 root root /dev/dsp56k

/dev/dsp* are only OSS-compatible device files. Native ALSA devices
are /dev/snd/*

> Doesn't look that bad to me so far, but everytime I start KDE (also as root)
> I get a requester, that /dev/dsp can't be opened (no such device)

Show output of "lsmod" and "/etc/modprobe.conf".

> "Soundcard Detection" in KDE correctly detects the card, but playing
> the test-sound fails (I don't hear anything - no error message).
> When I start "KMix", the mixer dropdown is empty.
> 
> I'm clueless ... I'm working on RedHat servers for 3 years now, but this
> is my first time with sound ;-)
> 
> Thanks in advance for any hints!!!

What results do you get when running redhat-config-soundcard?


Btw, you hijacked the thread "Re: Kernel 2.6.5-1.309 & Nvidia & 4KSTACKS".