Hello,
Unfortunately, I cannot even get arts to start, let alone deactivate it.
Arts starting is what produces, I believe, the error message about /dev/dsp
not being initialized. I have tried building and installing the alsa source
included with the 2.4.6 kernel but sound is still toast. I haven't had to
manually create a modules.conf for so long but it appears that this is what
is going to be required to get it loading - the system keeps trying to
install non-functional oss modules. I have never run into the before.
On Sunday 08 July 2001 04:11 pm, you wrote:
> Try deactivating the aRts sound server in KDE Control Center -> Sound
> -> Sound Server.
> Salu2,
> óscar.
>
> El Dom 08 Jul 2001 19:16, escribiste:
> > I have upgraded to KDE 2.2 beta on my Mandrake 8.0 system. Of course, to
> > do this required that I upgrade a number of other things to meet
> > dependencies. Somewhere in all this I have lost sound.
> >
> > I have an AOpen AK72 mobo with an Athlon 700 and builtin AC97 via686a
> > sound. It has worked fine in the past with Mandrake 7.1 - 8.0. It was
> > working recently as well when I was running KDE 2.2 alpha. Now, since
> > upgrading to KDE beta, it no longer works. Incidently, I also have a
> > laptop (IBM Thinkpad) running Mandrake 8.0 (plus KDE 2.2 beta). It has a
> > builtin Ess Solo1 soundsystem which has worked find in the past too -
> > until upgrading to KDE beta. Both these systems show the same error
> > message on starting KDE:
> >
> > Error while initializing the sound driver:
> > device: /dev/dsp can't be opened (Invalid argument)
> >
> > Huh? Has something changed drastically recently from the way sound is
> > handled in KDE 2.2 alpha and KDE 2.2 beta? My kernel and its drivers
> > appear not to matter at all - upgrading to KDE beta (and perhaps its
> > attendent rpm dependencies - all billion of them) screws up sound. Has
> > anyone else run into this? If so, have you fixed it? There still is a
> > /dev/dsp on my system, it hasn't changed.
