I just installed Mandrake 10.1 and I have no sound. I am EXTREMLEY new to Linux.
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dentification
Vendor: ‎Creative Labs

Description: ‎SB Audigy LS

Media class: ‎MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO

Connection
Bus: ‎PCI

Bus PCI #: ‎1

PCI device #: ‎5

PCI function #: ‎0

Vendor ID: ‎4354

Device ID: ‎7

Sub vendor ID: ‎4354

Sub device ID: ‎4102

Driver
Module: ‎unknown

I have no idea how to install this alamixer others are talking about so PLEASE explain like I was a 3 year old.

Also I found this KDE sound mixer and I get this error when I make a change and it tries to restart the server.

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.

I have the volume control in the lower right corner but it has a red x in it. I double click on that and I get Kmix. current mixer in empty with no choices.

it does say this..

Sound drivers supported: ALSA0.9 + OSS
Sound drivers used:

When I reboot I get this error.....



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.





HELP PLEASE! I love this OS but I have to have sound...

I'm guessing you need to install the ALSA driver again, or make the correct modules. But I'm not really into Mandrake...

It has been awhile since I had Mandrake 10.1. Is there a particular reason why you chose that instead of the current (and very nice) Mandriva 2007?

In any event, the problem is probably in how your /etc/modules.conf file is set up. I haven't had sound system problems since 9.2, at which time I had to solve the exact problem you are dealing with, so I might have to fumble around remembering what I did. I do recall that you would get that error message if some other sound system was already running and had locked the /dev/dsp device.

Open a shell window (you can do this by clicking on the terminal icon that you'll see in your taskbar, or will find in a menu someplace). In the shell window, type (without the quotes"cat /etc/modules.conf".

This will cause the contents of your modules.conf to be printed to the screen. Now click/drag to highlight, then copy/paste the entire contents of this file into a message box for this site and post it.

Then enter this command: "ls -al /dev/dsp". This is the "list" command and you are asking it for the details of /dev/dsp. Copy/paste the results here.

Then enter this compound command: "lspci | grep -i audio" and copy/paste the results here. This command employs a pipe, which is the vertical slash. What it says is "execute the lspci command (which is one of the ls family of commands, specifically "list PCI devices") and pipe (redirect) the output to the grep command. The grep command (enter "man grep" to learn about it) is a General Regular Expression Pattern utility, which matches patterns. You are telling it to do a case insensitive (-i option) match on the output from lspci looking for the string "audio" and to print any line that contains it.

Then, from your command line window, you need to become root (administrator in Windows-speak). To do this, enter the command "su" and hit return.

The system will prompt you for your root password; enter it. Now, in that window only, you are root. Now type in the command "sndconfig". This is a console-based sound configurator that might help you. Follow its prompts and see what happens. After letting it do its thing, take a look at modules.conf again.

In any case, we'll learn a lot from the data you post here.

I am 10000% new so I am just trying out differrent ones. Do you think Mandriva is better?
I am just trying to find the best one that aloows me to operate. as close as possible, to windows. I want to be able to run my yahoo messenger...just stuff like that.


Can I download this easily?


Thanks guys.

I did this and I got nothing, it just went to a new prompt.

Do I have to change to a certain directory first?

Mandriva is the successor company to Mandrake. They merged with someone else (I forget...)

Mandriva 2007 is the descendant of Mandrake 2001, three releases removed. I just installed it last weekend. Very nice, very smooth.


You don't have to change directories, because you entered the full path to the target file.

Try this: "ls /etc"

You are looking for a directory listing of /etc. You want to find modules.conf, or perhaps conf.modules (could be, but shouldn't be). Whichever file you find you should list out and copy/paste here. That file is there, someplace. There should also be a "modules" file; list it out as well.

Oh, by the way. I am running Mandriva 2007, but I haven't done a clean install of Mandrake/Mandriva Linux since Mandrake 7.2. I always upgrade. What this means is that there is a possibility that my config isn't completely standard; I might have some "legacy" architecture that I have never addressed because it is working.

So, when I upgraded to Mandrake 10.1 a few years back, I had a working sound system (which I debugged when my 9.2 upgrade went awry) and therefore my experience might not match yours.

I did a vi on modules.conf and got this

"modules.con" [New File] 0,0-1 All


that is all..

modules has this...

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with
# a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.

~
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"modules" [readonly] 6L, 244C 1,1 All

dev/dsp does not exist

I changed to dev and did an ls dsp was not listed.

running the grep command I got this


01:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS


[root@localhost root]# sndconfig
-bash: sndconfig: command not found

run the command:

alsaconf

The driver is ca106 from alsa. check hereand read thoroughly.
]$ locate snd-ca0106
to see if your Mandrake distro has it. If not then download from alsa. The kernel may need some updating first -donno? to accept
]# monoprobe snd-ca0106