Hi, AFAIK on FC5 udev is used to create device files and it creates them when sound driver is loaded (at start). Could you attach output of lsmod ? Also what is in /proc/asound/cards ? Peter Zubaj On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 12:44 -0800, Troy McGuire wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I started using Fedora Core 5 on a Toshiba Satellite P35-S611 a few > months back, and have always had sound. Today I got to work and > attempted to start XMMS. After taking a long time to run it wouldn't > play music, but gave me the message, "Couldn't Open Audio: Please check > that: Your soundcard is configured properly, You have the correct > output plugin selected, No other program is blocking the soundcard". > > I started searching the net for answers, and after reading many posts on > several forums I was not able to find a solution to my problem. I saw > where several people had a similar circumstance, and running > ./snddevices solved their issue. However, after doing a "locate > snddevices" nothing came up. > > While reading the posts mentioned above I found: > Typing "alsamixer" gives me: > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device > Type "amixer" gives me: > amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device > Running "strace -eopen alsamixer" I eventually get.... > open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or > directory) > open("/dev/aloadC0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or > directory) > > My sound was working fine last night, I installed a game, but other than > that didn't change any settings/devices/configs on my system. I've > tried logging out and rebooting, but it still seems like my sound card > doesn't exist anymore :( Does anyone have good advice for me? > > Thank You, > > Troy > troy at spawn or die dot com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user