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Hi! I have trouble installing sound on my IBM laptop. I tried several things which were said would fix it but I still get this error: Error while initializing the ...
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  1. 01-01-2006 #1
    Dark Wizdom
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    Problem with sound on IBM X30

    Hi! I have trouble installing sound on my IBM laptop. I tried several things which were said would fix it but I still get this error:

    Error while initializing the sound driver:
    device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)
    The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

    On the net I found out that ALSA drivers support my sound, but nothing changed after I installed them too...
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  2. 01-07-2006 #2
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    What kernel version are you using?
    Depending on what version you have depends on wether or not you need alsa-drivers. Version 2.6.x and up have built in support while 2.4.x and below require alsa-drivers. Both can benifit from alsa-tools, but is not neccessary on either.

    If you have a 2.6.x kernel, are the right drivers compiled into the kernel?
    If you do have a 2.4.x kernel and you installed alsa-drivers, and alsa-tools, what does the output of lsmod show?

    What part of alsa did you install? Alsa-tools, alsa-drivers,alsa-firmware, etc..


    What sound card do you have exactly?
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