I'm having a problem getting mandrake to give me sound. Sound card is a Conexant AC-Link Audio, IRQ channel 5. When I start up KDE i get and error message saying

"Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)

The soundserver will continue, using the null output device."

I have a compaq 2580 laptop and I'm running mandrake 9.2.

I'm a newbie at all this; just recently (finally) got mandrake installed. Though it was a lot of work, i did end up learning quite a bit about partitions.

Any help and suggestions are greatly appericated.

~Thomas

Edit: I'm using KDE 3.1 incase u needed to know

Why not go to mandrake configuration centre and unistall that driver and look for one more suitable use the configureation centre to check your hard ware an see if have the right drivers installed

how do i know which driver is the right one?

well this is what you have to do basically to make life easy install xmms along with the relative playback plugins

[root@localhost nick]# lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO
snd-intel8x0 : Intel Corp.|82801EB AC'97 Audio [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:8086 device:24d5 subv:1462 subd:7430)

this tells you what driver you sound card is using by default all you do is go to mandrake control center in hardware detect look at the current settings of your driver click the run config tool and it will tell you the drivers currently using click on let me pick the i810_aduo compatible driver (of the driver thats closes to yours) then load up xmms hold ctrl+p where it says out put plugin choose perfable esound outplugin click on config check the box that says volume controls OSS mixer and thats it find a mp3 and test it out ... it don't work uncheck the volume control and see what happens