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ervalerio
11-03-2002, 08:38 PM
hi there
this is my problem:
[valerio@localhost valerio]$ artsd -a alsa -D /dev/dsp -l 1
ALSA lib pcm.c:1711:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM /dev/dsp
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: /dev/dsp can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory)

Modules are loaded correctly (or so it seems), since lsmod:
[root@localhost valerio]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
isofs 25652 1 (autoclean)
inflate_fs 17892 0 (autoclean) [isofs]
bsd_comp 4344 0 (autoclean)
sg 31276 0 (autoclean) (unused)
st 26740 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sr_mod 15096 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sd_mod 11788 0 (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod 90372 4 (autoclean) [sg st sr_mod sd_mod]
ide-cd 28712 1 (autoclean)
cdrom 26848 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd]
floppy 49340 0 (autoclean)
snd-seq-oss 26176 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 3208 0 [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 33264 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-seq-device 3836 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq]
snd-pcm-oss 36932 0
snd-mixer-oss 9016 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-maestro3 12812 1
snd-pcm 55808 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-maestro3]
snd-timer 9964 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 25508 0 [snd-maestro3]
snd 24804 1 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-seq-device snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-maestro3 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore 3780 0 [snd]
nfsd 66576 0 (autoclean)
lockd 46480 0 (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc 60188 0 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
ipchains 39656 0 (unused)
af_packet 13000 1 (autoclean)
8139too 14472 1 (autoclean)
mii 1152 0 (autoclean) [8139too]
nls_iso8859-15 3356 2 (autoclean)
nls_cp850 3580 1 (autoclean)
vfat 9588 1 (autoclean)
fat 31864 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
ppp_async 7456 1
ppp_deflate 41024 0
ppp_generic 20064 3 [bsd_comp ppp_async ppp_deflate]
slhc 5072 0 [ppp_generic]
pwc 41416 0 (unused)
videodev 5792 0 [pwc]
usb-uhci 21676 0 (unused)
usbcore 58304 1 [pwc usb-uhci]
rtc 6560 0 (autoclean)

Mandrake 9.0 is using a 2.4.19 kernel.

My sound card is:
Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1 (rev 12)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 1049
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at f800 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

Everything seems to be ok..i don't get any error message...but i can't hear any sound from speaker.

To turn on volume I used alsamixer.
On a 2.4.8 kernel, using OSS driver, it works, but not perfecty, that's why I want to use this new kernel.

how can i solve it?

zie
11-04-2002, 05:28 AM
I don't know about your soundcard or mdk9.0, but my soundcard (cmi8738) works much better without alsa (eg, using the built-in driver in the kernel). You might want to ask people in the mandrake forum. They are really know what's going on.