On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 05:56, N. Raghavendra wrote: > 2. Sound is not working in KDE. When KDE starts it produces the > following error message in $HOME/.xsession-errors: > > Error while initializing the sound driver: > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device) > > The properties of /dev/dsp are: > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 5 2000 /dev/dsp > > and the same is true of /dev/audio. I have added myself to the > group 'audio' too. The sound card is an Intel on board card. > According to sndconfig running on an identical RedHat machine, > the model is "Intel Corporation|82820 820 (Camino 2) AC'97 > Audio". (The Debian packaged sndconfig does not recognise the > same card on my machine.) I am running kernel-image-2.4.9-686 > with the following modules currently loaded: ide-cdi, cdrom, > i810, agpgart, soundcore, rtc, eepro100, unix, ide-disk, > ide-probe-mod, ide-mod, ext2.
Try modprobing ac97_codec and i8xx (not sure if this is the name since I don't have the module built). If that works you may want to either add char-major-14 as i8xx or just put it in /etc/modules to load at boot time in the future. Also check /proc/devices to make sure sound is there. --mike
