KDE & /dev/dsp for Ernest

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 12:12, Hannes Mayer wrote:
> Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> > Need to run system-config-soundcard with FC2T2, right?
> > ===============================================================
> > [root at matrix root]# system-config-soundcard
> > sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': No such device
> > amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device
> > amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device
> > -9
> > ================================================================
> > I have a similar problem can't get sound to work.
> 
> Hi Ernest!
> 
> Yes, I had the exact messages with system-config-soundcard.
> 
> In modprobe.conf I only had the following entries:
> alias eth0 8139too
> alias 0.0.0 8139too
> alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
> 
> I added:
> 
> # ALSA portion
> alias char-major-116* snd
> alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371
> 
> # OSS/Free portion
> alias char-major-14* soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> 
> # card #1
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> 
> install snd-card-0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-card-0 && { /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
> remove snd-card-0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove
> 
> install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install sound-slot-0 && { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
> remove sound-slot-0 { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >>/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove
> 
> Replace snd-ens1371 with your soundcard driver.
> 
> When I searched for my soundcard driver I found snd-ens1371.ko, so
> I tried:
> modprobe snd-ens1371
> and it worked (make sure you can write to /dev/dsp)
> 
> Let me know if that works for you too!

After adding the configuration above manually to "modprobe.conf" with my
driver, it worked perfectly.   Thanks for the help.

I hope this will happen automatically when "system-config-soundcard" is
run in the future.


> 
> Cheers,
> Hannes.
> 
-- 
Ernest L. Williams Jr. <ernesto at ornl.gov>