No sound, KDE 3.2, Debian stable (mostly)

[Pascal Brück]

Am Dienstag, 24. Februar 2004 03:58 schrieb Udo Hoerhold:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed KDE 3.2 on a Debian stable system (with a few
> packages from testing and a 2.6.3 kernel), and sound isn't
> working.  With the default settings for "Sound System" in Control
> Center, I don't get any message at all, just no sound.  If I
> specify ALSA as the audio device, and /dev/dsp as the device
> location, I get the message:
>
> device: /dev/dsp can't be opened for playback (No such file or
> directory)

I think /dev/dsp is used for pure OSS or the ALSA OSS emulation.

> ALSA is compiled into the kernel.  I have i8x0 audio, which I've
> tried compiled in, and as a module.  ls -al /dev/dsp gives me:
>
> crwxrwxrwx    1 root     audio     14,   3 Mar 14  2002 /dev/dsp
>
> Does anyone know what this problem might be?

I also had a lot of probs with the new Kernel and switching to ALSA 
and UDEV. I solved it using the "snddevices" script out of the 
(with Kernel 2.6.3 obsolet) alsa-drivers package. I didn't 
installed that package, just unpacked it and executed the 
"snddevices" script so the needed devices got created. Since then 
ARTS with ALSA work fine.

Hope that helps.

Pascal

> Thanks,
>
> Udo Hoerhold
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