TiBook 667 -- sound not working

Thierry de Coulon tcoulon at decoulon.ch
Fri Oct 8 13:21:24 MDT 2004


On Friday 08 October 2004 16:14, Simeon Wiehler wrote:
> Hi Folks!
> Maybe there's someone who can help me out:
>
> I had YDL 2.3 working for almost two years on my TiBook (667mhz), great
> sound, great system, didn't even bother to upgrade to the 3.0 releases. 
> But times change and software improves, so I decided to do a clean install
> of YDL4.
>
> The soundcard configuration goes fine, with a lovely chord strumming
> healthily from each speaker.  But on booting into KDE (same in Gnome) I get
> the following error message, and no sound:
>
> "Sound server informational message:
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT failed - Invalid argument
> The sound server will continue, using the null output device."

Same experience on AlBook 1Ghz. Seems the only solution yet is to revert to an 
older version.

Thierry

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