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Sound Server Error

I think this is a fairly common error, since when searching the forums it seems there are many post redgarding this. I get it when starting X:

Sound Server Informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opned (no such device)
the sound server will continue using the null output device.

/dev/dsp does exist so i dont really get this :confused: I have read elsewhere that one solution was to chmod 755 /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer I have tried this but it did not help. If anyone can think of a solution i would greatly appreciate it! Thanks in advance.

Yeah, /dev/dsp exists indeed but you need a driver for it also.

What sound card do you have?

I am not exactly sure what soundcard i have, if any one could tell me how to find out (other then look in my computer lol) thatd be good, ill try to see if i can see something in my computer but i dont think i will be able to. I know that when i installed Red Hat it is auto detected and it said what it was, but now i have slackware and i forget what it was :(

use 'cat /proc/pci |grep audio'

I tried cat /proc/pci |grep audio and got nothing, but here is my /proc/pci file. I cant seem to see anything about my soundcard :(

Code:

PCI devices found:

  Bus  0, device  0, function  0:

    Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX Host bridge (rev 3).

      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  

      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40c00000 [0x40ffffff].

  Bus  0, device  1, function  0:

    PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX AGP bridge (rev 3).

      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=4.

  Bus  0, device  2, function  0:

    Multimedia video controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 2 (rev 2).

      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x42000000 [0x42ffffff].

  Bus  0, device  4, function  0:

    Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 17).

      IRQ 11.

      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.

      I/O at 0x1400 [0x14ff].

      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40900000 [0x409003ff].

  Bus  0, device  7, function  0:

    ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 1).

  Bus  0, device  7, function  1:

    IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1).

      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  

      I/O at 0x1020 [0x102f].

  Bus  0, device  7, function  2:

    USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 1).

      IRQ 11.

      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  

      I/O at 0x1000 [0x101f].

  Bus  0, device  7, function  3:

    Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 1).

      IRQ 9.

  Bus  0, device  15, function  0:

    VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 1064SG [Mystique] (rev 3).

      IRQ 11.

      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  

      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x41000000 [0x417fffff].

      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40800000 [0x40803fff].

      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40000000 [0x407fffff].

also, in the gnome device manager it does not detect any sound card at all! :confused:

wow, thanks. 1 step completed. This is my soundcard:
ESS ES1868 Plug and Play AudioDrive
now what, do i have to find linux drivers for it or what?

http://www.netspace.net.au/~bmiller/...s1868-2.4.html

Don't worry about the kernel building part, you should already have the needed modules.

umm, i am a little new to linux lol, so im not really sure what that page is asking me to do. If it is saying do this:
"The first thing to do is enable ISA PnP. This is done under the

Plug and Play configuration --->"
I have no clue how to do that hehe, if you could help me out that would be awesome! :)

also, i have heard that OSS (Open Sound System : http://www.opensound.com/) Supports my sound card, so i tried to install it but it didnt support my kernel. I dont know why, i just installed the latest slackware about 1 week ago

Slackware 9.0 uses the 2.4.20 kernel. This should be the package you need to download oss397i-linux-v2x.tar.gz

When trying to install I get this after it check my kernel version.

"Unforunately the OSS/Linux Installation package doesn't contain precompiled modules for the kernel version your system is running.

There are three possible methods to solve this proble:

You can try to compile the sndshield module locally....(blah blah blah)

The second method is downloading the requiredmodule from our server...(blah blah blah)"

So if i choose to compile i get:

"Failed to compile the sndshield module locally"

and if i choose download i get:

Linux Kernel version : 2.4.20

there is no install package avaliable...

:confused:

Ok, i read some more and it said that if you used a kernel that came with the distro (which i did) then you have to add a compiler or something, which i dont know how to do. So if someone could help me get OSS to work or tell me what to do with http://www.netspace.net.au/~bmiller...ss1868-2.4.html that page, then i think i could get the sound working.