Sound problem

[Rick Sheridan]

This should work.  I am assuming from the posts that you are running KDE.
Open a terminal console, at the prompt enter "lsmod".  This will list all
the loaded modules.  You should see a couple or three lines referencing
"sound":
dmasound_pmac
dmasound_core
soundcore

If you do not see these lines, then do the following:

In the terminal console enter "modprobe dmasound_pmac".

You should simply return to a prompt.  Now re-enter "lsmod" and you should
see the lines listed above.

Now open the 'Sound Server' Control Panel and reset the Sound Quality to
'Auto'.  'Apply' the change and 'Test' the Sound Server.  All should be
well.

Now navigate to the directory '/etc/rc.d'.  Open the file 'rc.local' in a
text editor (any one will do, just be sure to save the file as plain text),
and add the following line:

modprobe dmasound_pmac

Save the file, and your sound should work when you reboot.

If you get the same errors in your user account, log in as 'root', then edit
your user account adding the account to the 'sys' group.

Hope this helps.

Rick

At about 7:47 AM +1000 on 5/13/03, Nils Crompton wrote:
>On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 08:53 PM, Paolo G. Cordone wrote:
>
>>I have a question regarding YDL 3.0
>>When I log in as my ordinary user account, the sound driver for
>>some reason does not load, so I get no startup up sound effects,
>>nor anything once I am in.
>>If I log in as root, everything works as expected. I don't recall
>>changing any settings after creating the ordinary user account.
>>Where should I look, in order to find what is going on?
>
>OK here is a quick fix.  Go into the control center and navigate to
>sound.  Change the quality from Auto to 8 bit then log out log in.
>Sound will work but be low-qual so change it to 16 bit and log out
>log in.  Should be ok.

Same type of thing ... I get:

Error while initializing sound driver.

device /dev/dsp cant  be opened (No such device)

The wound server will continue, using the null output device.


However I get the same message logging in as root and changing
quality from Auto  to 8 Logout/in and then 16 Logout/in does not
change the error.

-ms
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