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i was just going to post this question, i've the same card integrated in my ASUS P4S8X motherboard and when i try to play some sound i get an error back that the sound device (either /dev/dsp or /dev/mixer or one of the like) can't be found/isn't responding (or whatever the message for that is, you know what i'm talking about). the kernel module for the card is cmpci, just so you know. you can do an lsmod to see if that module is running and if it's not check /lib/modules/<kernel number>/kernel/drivers/sound to make sure you don't have it before you recompile your kernel (if you do have it, it would be easy to insert it). anyway, looks like we both have the same problem and neither of us knows how to fix it. maybe YOU OUT THERE knows how to fix it, help us out. i'm on slackware 9.1, in case i didn't mention that (yeah, 9.1 came out last weekend and it is sweet). thanks
I don't have any experience with that card so here goes, What program gives the error saying /dev/dsp or /dev/mixer cannot be accessed, and what is the exact text, it may just be that the user cannont write to those devices, also are either of you using alsa drivers?
oh, i forgot to post that my problem is fixed. the driver that the other guy posted solved the problem for me, it's an oss driver by the way. i don't know if his problem is fixed though so maybe one of us can help him. while i'm at it, i get little pops when i try to play an mp3 in xmms. it sounds great when i play a cd, so i guess it's not the driver. although i have noticed the same thing in other places like flash animations on the web. so maybe it could be the driver. i'm maybe the reason that cd's sound good is that cable that goes from the back of my cd-rom drive to my card (i know that sounds really newbish and i'm way above that but i just don't know what to call that cable. lol) is a direct link that doesn't need any decoding like mp3's do. but i'm on a p4 at 2.5 Ghz so i don't know why decoding would cause inconsistencies in the sound output. maybe it's xmms. i don't know, any ideas guys?
I put this aside for awhile to work on some other things.
Your original post:
cmpci was not found running
cmpci.o was found in:
/lib/modules/<kernel number>/kernel/drivers/sound but, I don't know how to add it to get it running I'm a newbie. If you could help me with that...I'd appreciate it.
Also, the driver that you got installed...I tried to do this, but was not successful. Could you also step me through the install?
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