Sound Card not working

jhipkiss · 09-14-2004, 11:06 AM

I had Mandrake 9.2 on my PC and the sound was fine, when I upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 I lost all sound and when I boot it complains that it can't find a sound card.

The sound is part of the motherboard which is a Soltec SL-85DRV5-C

Any ideas? I'm fairly new to Linux so am unsure where to start first.

Thanks for any advice.

Jonathan

jhipkiss · 09-14-2004, 11:30 AM

An update:

When I logon I get this in a popup entitled "Informational - artsmessage":

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.

jhipkiss · 09-14-2004, 01:18 PM

Another update

If I login as root and then bring up Kmix and increase the volumne on the various channels the sound works fine, if I then logout of root and login as me then the sound is still fine.

However, I login straight as me after boot I get the above error and get no sound, even if I then login as root, I have to restart and go back via root again!!!

Is this some sort of permissions issue to do with initialising the sound????

jhipkiss · 09-19-2004, 04:31 AM

I ran alsaconf as root and it sorted out my problems