Last Sunday 12 December 2004 09:26, ed orphan was like: > Asus A7N8X motherboard on-board sound circuit. > nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler > Slackware 10 kernel 2.4.26 ALSA > KDE Control sound system is set to autodetect > The sound worked 2 days ago, but then, bang! > Won't play audio files no more. Somebody ( not me! ) must have > goofed up somewhere. ( Well, maybe me, I don't know ) > The cdrom plays audio CDs Ok with KDE KsCD player > so I know something is working right. But the nForce2 AC97 > sound mixer must have AUX set high. The Master Volume > and PCM on the mixer have no effect on cd-rom volume. > But no programs play audio files, including the usual > KDE system sounds the mouse used to make. > I have checked all the /dev devices and they all > look good. The correct driver ( snd-intel8x0) is loaded. > When KDE starts it gives an error message: > "Sound server Error while initializing the sound driver > device fault can't be opened for playback ( no such device) > The sound server will continue, using the null open device." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > /usr/bin/audacity in KDE gives this warning when > starting up: > "There was an error initializing the audio I/O layer. > You will not be able to play or record audio." > Try to play a loaded file and audacity says: > "Error while opening sound device. Please check the > output device settings and project sample rate." > The Gnome Wave Cleaner is also silent and hangs > when I press the play button. > The Sox play comamnd is silent. > I have tried all kinds of changes to /etc/modules.conf > to the ALSA settings and used the alsaconf command > a few times too, but my knowledge is limited and nothing > good happens. This is my /etc/modules.conf > > # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- > # --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.5 --- > alias char-major-116 snd > alias char-major-14 soundcore > alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss > alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss > alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss > alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss > alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss options snd device_mode=0660 options snd-intel8x0 mpu_port=0x330 index=0 > alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 > alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 > # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- Except you'll need to add the two lines above if you want MIDI support. Otherwise this is correct. > These are my loaded modules ( lsmod ) > Module Size Used by Not tainted > snd-seq-midi 3488 0 (autoclean) (unused) > snd-seq-midi-event 3264 0 (autoclean) [snd-seq-midi] > snd-seq 33424 0 (autoclean) [snd-seq-midi > snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss 37736 0 > snd-mixer-oss 12504 0 [snd-pcm-oss] > usb-ohci 19240 0 (unused) > ehci-hcd 17580 0 (unused) > usbcore 59308 1 [usb-ohci ehci-hcd] > forcedeth 9164 1 > snd-intel8x0 18924 0 > gameport 1420 0 [snd-intel8x0] > snd-pcm 56072 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0] > snd-timer 13604 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] > snd-page-alloc 6328 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm] > snd-ac97-codec 49500 0 [snd-intel8x0] > snd-mpu401-uart 3200 0 [snd-intel8x0] > snd-rawmidi 12740 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart] > snd-seq-device 3888 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq snd-rawmidi] > snd 30852 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq > snd-pcm-oss s$ soundcore 3396 4 [snd] > ide-scsi 9328 0 > agpgart 43940 0 (unused) Looks normal. > One day it works great, the next day its crap. I don't know > what happened. Anybody got any ideas? Sounds like the KDE sound server is interfering with ALSA, didn't they fix that thing? Turn it off from kcontrol > Sound & Multimedia >Sound System - uncheck the box marked 'Enable the sound system' so all the options grey out. That should sort it. ;-) If you actually _want_ the system sounds then you'll have to 'Enable' it and configure appropriately. Do yourself a favour, if so, and download a decent sound theme - http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=12584 cheers tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
