earlier today I installed the Nforce drivers after recompiling my kernel, I rebooted after enabeling the hotplug scripts on startup, and was able to use my audio, it sounded quite nice and i listed to both the CLI program 'amp' and I used XMMS. now, a few hours later, after installing quake 3, it didnt work, it doesnt even work with amp or xmms, it just gives the error "** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): Device or resource buisy"

does anybody know what this could mean?

ps. this was the first time I installed the drivers since i got my new hard drive, but in my previous instalation it worked flawlessly.

Two questions:

What kernel are you using?

What audio chip do you have on your motherboard?

I'm on a 2.4.22 kernel (I know its old, but its the most recent kernel supported by the OpenMosix patch)

I dont know the exact chipset, but its the onboard audio for my Nforce 2 board, and it uses the 'nvaudio' driver according to lsmod.

A new discovery; My audio works when I reboot, but it will stop working untill the next reboot when I start quake 3.

My problem is like same kind. Just I need adjust my audio controller when working with Linus (SUSE 9). Then all OK but after reboot I need to do it again...

MB is NF7-S and audio chip is Raltek ALC650 - it using nforce drivers (nvaudio).

Sry my bad english

what do you mean by 'adjust' the audio controler? Im in slackware so i dont have any special suse tools

I told - my bad english...

I mean I need edit file /etc/modules.conf
But after restart I need to do it again

There no any special tools, YAST dont help here.