the good ol' fedora and sound card not working problem

ericb · 11-08-2005, 12:06 AM

I am pretty new to linux, and i have a Creative Labs SB Audigy LS sitting in my computer. I have been using ALSA, but I get frequent problems like the the "the sound card is being used with a different application" stuff like that, and my sound isn't working with any flash (but that could be a completely seperate problem I don't know). Anyone have any pointers?

Brian1 · 11-08-2005, 07:43 PM

You are looking for something on dmix in ~./asoundrc file. Here is one I found here. There are many more so you might want to search for others and see. Most should look like this one.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...light=asoundrc

Hope this helps.
Brian1

ericb · 11-08-2005, 07:58 PM

i'm alittle confused haha, i can't find anything about asoundrc or dmix.

Brian1 · 11-08-2005, 09:31 PM

If you look at the above post link and look at post #4, it shows the contents of a file called .asoundrc that would be in your home directory. The lines of code is used to allow more than one sound at a time to /dev/dsp. More than likely it does not exist so create a new text file and cut and paste the lines from post #4 to it and save. Restart X server.

Hope this helps out there ericb. If still confused don't go crazy, were here to help.
Brian1

ericb · 11-08-2005, 10:42 PM

didn't work. I also forgot to include this error i get when i log in

Code:

Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: default can't be opened for playback (Invalid argument)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device

ericb · 11-08-2005, 10:42 PM

oh yea i should also add i use fedora 4, (not slackware like it says in my profile)

ericb · 11-10-2005, 01:07 PM

any tips?

ericb · 11-11-2005, 11:40 PM

ahhhhhhhhh

ericb · 12-18-2005, 11:43 PM

any more help?