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I'm tri-booting mandrake 10, Fedora core 2, and windows XP. I can't get my sound card working on Mandrake 10. It works fine on Fedora core 2. The 2 distros are also using the same driver (I think, the name is the same snd-intel8x0). When I try to run KDE's sound system program (under mandrake) and click test sound I get this:
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.
My soundcard is an nvidia nforce intergrated. here's the info hardrake gives me
i get this when I run alsa mixer. (this may be a problem with my module.conf file)
ALSA lib conf.c:1565snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:1:14:Unexpected char
ALSA lib conf.c:2803snd_config_hook_load) /home/jay/.asoundrc may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:2667snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: Unknown error
ALSA lib conf.c:3032snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Unknown error
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
kbuildsycoca running...
kded: WARNING: KGenericFactory: instance requested but no instance name passed to the constructor!
kded: WARNING: KGenericFactory: instance requested but no instance name passed to the constructor!
kmix: ERROR: Alsa mixer cannot be found.
Please check that the soundcard is installed and the
soundcard driver is loaded.
kmix:
kmix: ERROR: Alsa mixer cannot be found.
Please check that the soundcard is installed and the
soundcard driver is loaded.
kmix:
kmix: ERROR: Alsa mixer cannot be found.
Please check that the soundcard is installed and the
soundcard driver is loaded.
kmix:
kmix: ERROR: Alsa mixer cannot be found.
Please check that the soundcard is installed and the
soundcard driver is loaded.
kmix:
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