Sorry to just blurt right out with this... I'm in need of sound on my unix box and kind of quickly. I never even configure sound or want it as a rule but now I need it to test some recording equipment on a second winxp computer with m-audio delta-66 installed.
I get this message when starting kde. I just ignore it normally but I guess it is telling me something usefull for getting sound up: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. This is an Asus K8V mobo with soundmax built in. Further info: Attempting to `play' a *.wav file: reader > play sonny_boy2a/TooCloseTogether_SonnyBoyWilliamson2.wav ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:3491:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:3491:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:3491:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device ALSA lib conf.c:3960:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device ALSA lib pcm.c:2107:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default sox: Failed writing default: cannot open audio device -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
