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I've really got some trouble getting my sound to work... after some work I successfully compiled and installed the drivers, but I'm still getting an error at startup that says ...
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Sound not working...
I've really got some trouble getting my sound to work... after some work I successfully compiled and installed the drivers, but I'm still getting an error at startup that says it's going to continue with null output.
Tipical error(I suppose) of device /dev/dsp can't be opened (no such file or directory)....
Please help, this(and my vid) are the only things stopping me from dumping windows
btw, it's a Realtek ALC880
- 08-04-2005 #2Trusted Penguin
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Breifly log into KDE as root and try your sound. If it works, then you just need to change the permissions on /dev/dsp to where it is accessable to regular users.
Did you install alsa? From the command line as root:
to configure...Code:alsaconf
to set the volume level. and...Code:alsamixer
to save your configuration if the previous two gets you sound. Hope this helps...Code:alsactl store
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err... I tried alsaconf, but it didn't find any cards... I'm using the fatal1ty aa8xe mobo with that HD 7.1 daughter card
btw, how do I log in as root? I know that I can have root privileges at console with the "su" command, but how do you log in?
- 08-04-2005 #4Linux Newbie
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you mean log in as if root was a normal user ? If so, then you need to enable this feature in -login screen setup-
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log out to the sign in thingie, (kdm) and type root for username and root's password for password. That should put you into a KDE desktop as root to check whether or not you can get sound. Just do it for this purpose though, and get out and back in to regular user as soon as you know.
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maybe that was previous distros of mandrake? when I log out I just get a list of users and of course the only one is my account. There is no way to type in root user or log in as root from that menu.
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There isn't a window that has, "username" beside it where you type something in? You don't have to choose the name/profiles that are there. If that is the case, then Mandrake changed a lot between 9.2 and 10.1.
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nothing... I'm going to try to find a way, but if not, I think maybe I should change to another distro
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I wouldn't do that just yet. Do you have XMMS installed? As user... Originally Posted by DataX
Code:xmms
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yes, I do have xmms installed, but this is what I get:
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