audio not working.."device not present"??

abiagi · 12-05-2003, 08:18 PM

When I boot into Linux and type startx I get a message indicating a problem initializing audio, and that the Device is not present. I don't even know where to START attacking this one. My Slack has been up and sprinting for 3 days and I'm stoked.

ac1980 · 12-05-2003, 08:37 PM

1) as root, try
chmod 777 /dev/audio* /dev/mixer*
it might be a misleading error message.
If this doesn't work you need to supply more info: at minimum, what's your sound board

abiagi · 12-05-2003, 10:33 PM

I'll try it now, but my audio is as follows:

Realtek AC97 Audio ( I believe it's PCI based )

I'll report back once I reboot into Slack.

Thank you.

abiagi · 12-05-2003, 10:41 PM

OK Here is what the message box displays upon starting of KDE

"Sound Server Informational Message:
Error while initializing sound driver
device/dev/dsp can't be opened(No such device)
The sound server will continue using the null output device

And that previous tip didn't do anything I could see

Thanks again

abiagi · 12-05-2003, 10:41 PM

and it's not PCI based