Guest adickson Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 Hello all... I installed Mandriva i586 many months ago, and until now the sound was working well, but now I get the following message: 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. I looked and the directory does not exist, and indeed I never installed any drivers for my sound card or anything. I was looking around on a bunch of forums, and besides me getting more and more frustrated, no progress was made. I don't have alsamixer installed, and when I tried to do that, I couldn't because I didn't have gcc. Here is the output of lsmod: Module Size Used by ipt_IFWLOG 3524 2 ipt_psd 44392 1 ip_set_iptree 7080 2 iptable_raw 2336 0 xt_policy 4320 2 xt_multiport 3744 4 ipt_ULOG 6916 0 ipt_TTL 2624 0 ipt_ttl 2336 0 ipt_TOS 2528 0 ipt_tos 2144 0 ipt_TCPMSS 4192 0 ipt_set 2848 2 ipt_SAME 2848 0 ipt_REJECT 4736 4 ipt_REDIRECT 2656 0 ipt_recent 10380 0 ipt_owner 2432 0 ipt_NETMAP 2624 0 ipt_MASQUERADE 3744 0 ipt_LOG 6912 10 ipt_iprange 2336 0 ipt_hashlimit 7912 0 ipt_ECN 3264 0 ipt_ecn 2592 0 ipt_DSCP 2560 0 ipt_dscp 2176 0 ipt_CLUSTERIP 7172 0 ipt_ah 2336 0 ipt_addrtype 2304 0 ip_set_portmap 4672 0 ip_set_macipmap 4580 0 ip_set_ipmap 4576 0 ip_set_iphash 7716 0 ip_set 18812 11 ip_set_iptree,ipt_set,ip_set_portmap,ip_set_macipmap,ip_set_ipmap,ip_set_iphash ip_nat_tftp 2144 0 ip_nat_snmp_basic 9348 0 ip_nat_sip 3872 0 ip_nat_pptp 5444 0 ip_nat_irc 2752 0 nvidia 6826292 22 ip_nat_h323 6176 0 i2c_core 16672 1 nvidia ip_nat_ftp 3360 0 ip_nat_amanda 2464 0 ip_conntrack_tftp 3928 1 ip_nat_tftp ip_conntrack_sip 6544 1 ip_nat_sip ip_conntrack_pptp 9808 1 ip_nat_pptp ip_conntrack_netbios_ns 2976 0 ip_conntrack_irc 5776 1 ip_nat_irc ip_conntrack_h323 45340 1 ip_nat_h323 ip_conntrack_ftp 6640 1 ip_nat_ftp ip_conntrack_amanda 4008 1 ip_nat_amanda xt_tcpmss 2688 0 xt_pkttype 2368 4 xt_physdev 2928 0 xt_NFQUEUE 2528 0 xt_MARK 2816 0 xt_mark 2400 0 xt_mac 2400 0 xt_limit 2912 0 xt_length 2464 0 xt_helper 2720 0 xt_dccp 3684 0 xt_conntrack 2848 0 xt_CONNMARK 2752 0 xt_connmark 2496 0 xt_CLASSIFY 2368 0 xt_tcpudp 3648 11 xt_state 2560 7 iptable_nat 7140 0 ip_nat 15404 12 ipt_SAME,ipt_REDIRECT,ipt_NETMAP,ipt_MASQUERADE,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_sip,ip_nat_pp tp,ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_h323,ip_nat_ftp,ip_nat_amanda,iptable_nat ip_conntrack 46560 24 ipt_MASQUERADE,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_snmp_basic,ip_nat_sip,ip_nat_pptp,ip_nat_irc,i p_nat_h323,ip_nat_ftp,ip_nat_amanda,ip_conntrack_tftp,ip_conntrack_sip,ip_conntr a ck_pptp,ip_conntrack_netbios_ns,ip_conntrack_irc,ip_conntrack_h323,ip_conntrack_ f tp,ip_conntrack_amanda,xt_helper,xt_conntrack,xt_CONNMARK,xt_connmark,xt_state,i p table_nat,ip_nat iptable_mangle 2912 1 nfnetlink 5656 2 ip_nat,ip_conntrack iptable_filter 3040 1 ip_tables 12484 4 iptable_raw,iptable_nat,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter x_tables 11780 47 ipt_IFWLOG,ipt_psd,xt_policy,xt_multiport,ipt_ULOG,ipt_TTL,ipt_ttl,ipt_TOS,ipt_t os,ipt_TCPMSS,ipt_set,ipt_SAME,ipt_REJECT,ipt_REDIRECT,ipt_recent,ipt_owner,ipt_ NETMAP,ipt_MASQUERADE,ipt_LOG,ipt_iprange,ipt_hashlimit,ipt_ECN,ipt_ecn,ipt_DSCP ,ipt_dscp,ipt_CLUSTERIP,ipt_ah,ipt_addrtype,xt_tcpmss,xt_pkttype,xt_physdev,xt_N F QUEUE,xt_MARK,xt_mark,xt_mac,xt_limit,xt_length,xt_helper,xt_dccp,xt_conntrack,x t_CONNMARK,xt_connmark,xt_CLASSIFY,xt_tcpudp,xt_state,iptable_nat,ip_tables sis900 20000 0 mii 5376 1 sis900 af_packet 17320 2 ipv6 228576 12 video 13796 0 thermal 11080 0 fan 3908 0 container 3840 0 button 5648 0 battery 8132 0 ac 4164 0 ide_cd 34912 0 binfmt_misc 9480 1 ntfs 248380 2 ext3 119176 1 jbd 48404 1 ext3 nls_iso8859_1 4640 3 nls_cp437 6272 1 vfat 10560 1 fat 45820 1 vfat loop 14248 0 dm_mirror 18192 0 dm_mod 47672 1 dm_mirror cpufreq_ondemand 6828 0 cpufreq_conservative 6824 0 cpufreq_powersave 2240 0 freq_table 4704 0 processor 21256 1 thermal evdev 8416 2 sis_agp 6692 1 agpgart 26088 2 nvidia,sis_agp usblp 11712 0 usbmouse 4768 0 usbhid 48832 0 usbkbd 6176 0 ehci_hcd 28456 0 ohci_hcd 18532 0 usbcore 107616 7 usblp,usbmouse,usbhid,usbkbd,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd jfs 174724 1 ide_generic 1824 0 [permanent] and the same for lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 741/741GX/M741 Host (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge) 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 36) 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01) 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0) 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90) 00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] RAID bus controller 180 SATA/PATA [SiS] (rev 01) 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) Can anyone help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdj Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 Had a similar problem with a game. If your running KDE try this: Open the KDE Control Center, go to Sound and Multimedia, go to Sound and set Auto-Suspend to a very short time, I set mine to 5 seconds. Click on the Hardware tab and set Select the audio device to autodetect. This works in KDE because KDE monopolizes the sound system. Hope this helps Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 "telinit 3" at a root console, and then run "alsaconf" as root (install it if not present). The soundcard is there and needs being re-initialized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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