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

Vendor: ‎Nvidia Corporation

Alternative drivers: ‎ali5455:i810_audio:nvaudio

Bus: ‎PCI

Bus identification: ‎10de:6a:1509:904d

Location on the bus: ‎0:6:0

Description: ‎nForce2 Audio Codec Interface

Module: ‎snd-intel8x0

Media class: ‎MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO

have you tried running a mixer and unmuting your sound?

when i try to run kmix I get nothing but a box that say current mixer and there's nothing in it.

how about alsamixer, or aumix?

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

try running alsaconf and configuring the card, then try the alsamixer.

I removed /.asoundrc (which is a file another tutorial told me to create) so now i get this:


alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

see my previous post.

same result

also look a this output when I run kmix now:

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:

when you run alsaconf does it find the card? what does /sbin/lspci -v return?

another thought what module is fedora using for the card?

-bash: /sbin/lspci-v: No such file or directory it returns that and I gotta reboot to check fedora

o, and yes I finds the card alsaconf goes fine no errors or anything

here's my /sbin/lsmod results (in case ud like to see what modules I have)


Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859-1 3904 0
isofs 33912 0
zlib_inflate 22656 1 isofs
vfat 13760 0
fat 45120 1 vfat
snd-seq-oss 31232 0
snd-seq-midi-event 7552 1 snd-seq-oss
snd-seq 51024 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event
snd-pcm-oss 51812 0
snd-mixer-oss 17952 1 snd-pcm-oss
snd-intel8x0 32776 0
snd-ac97-codec 58148 1 snd-intel8x0
snd-pcm 93156 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-intel8x0
snd-timer 24484 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm
gameport 4480 1 snd-intel8x0
snd-page-alloc 11972 2 snd-intel8x0,snd-pcm
snd-mpu401-uart 7072 1 snd-intel8x0
snd-rawmidi 23616 1 snd-mpu401-uart
snd-seq-device 8008 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi
snd 52484 12 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-intel8x0,snd-ac97-codec,snd-pcm,snd uart,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device
soundcore 9248 1 snd
DAC960 72936 0
ac97_codec 17804 0
md5 3872 1
ipv6 232352 6
sg 38044 0
st 38616 0
sr_mod 17028 0
sd_mod 16832 0
scsi_mod 114648 4 sg,st,sr_mod,sd_mod
agpgart 31016 0
nvidia 2068232 12
parport_pc 32832 1
lp 12200 0
parport 38952 2 parport_pc,lp
af_packet 20520 2
hid 53312 0
raw 7616 1
ide-floppy 18752 0
ide-tape 34864 0
ide-cd 40548 0
cdrom 37184 2 sr_mod,ide-cd
floppy 59444 0
natsemi 23840 0
forcedeth 14304 0
supermount 37876 1
ehci-hcd 24196 0
ohci-hcd 18692 0
usbcore 99132 4 hid,ehci-hcd,ohci-hcd
rtc 11576 0
ext3 110408 1
jbd 54328 1 ext3

there's a space between lspci and -v