Knoppix - ALSA
Hi, I just installed (after failing with about 5 distributions of Linux:eek: , dont ask me how I managed to go through all those without getting one to work properly, lol :) )
Anyway, I just got Knoppix installed and working, the only problem is sound. Now, running a 600E, I knew I would have problems with this, so I checked Google, but I couldnt find much help for Knoppix, I went into the sound and multimedia control centre, and selected ALSA as the Sound I/O, but when I click Apply, I get the message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. I am a Linux :newbie:, so I dont really know what to do here, if anyone can help id really appreciate it :D Thanks alot! |
Try this:
Open a terminal, su to root run the following command: alsaconfig |
Yup. Sounds like you're not logged in as root when trying to get alsa going. Lost Penguin's got you on the right track.
su - enter root password when asked alsaconf alsamixer type M to mute/unmute channels, use arrows to navigate, Esc to exit alsactl store at this point ls -l /dev/dsp and make sure you've got permissions to use it and not just root. If it looks like: rwxr--r-- then you'll probably need to change that, so: chmod 755 /dev/dsp ls -l /dev/dsp It should now look like: rwxr-xr-x Should work nicely now as normal user. Hope this helps. :) |
Hi, Thanks for responding.
After I su to root, I type alsaconf (I also tried alsaconfig), but it says: bash: alsaconf: command not found Any ideas? Thanks for your help |
Forget Alsa and try this it worked perfectly for me
Here is what I did Open a shell and logon as root and type insmod sound insmod ad1848 insmod uart401 insmod cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2-0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=9 this will load the correct drivers, however you will have to enter this everytime you reboot so if anyone out there has a script that will run these commands on boot I would appreciate hearing from you. Update: I finally got the mods above to load at boot what I did was create a file with the above commands and saved it as cs4232 in the /etc folder and made it executable. Then cd to /etc/rc5.d and ran ln -s /etc/cs4232 S98cs4232 this created the symlink and I then rebooted the laptop and sound loaded on start. |
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