Sorry if this sounds too stupid, too simple, or too "man, what does he think I am, stupid?", but, have you unmuted your mixers? The reason I ask is this: yesterday, I went through about an hour and a half trying to figure out why my new motherboard's new onboard sound didn't work, even though it was properly supported.
The problem? The mixer "VIA DXS" was muted. Sure, it doesn't make much sense to me, since that's a weird name, but there weren't much more items than that... Like 8 more items. Okay, joking aside, it looks like ARTS can't access the sound hardware. Before you attempt using a sound server or KDE, see if you can make sound come out. Log out completely, stop everything, get to a root prompt (Ctrl-Alt-F1, login, at least on my system). Type "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp" and see what happens. If you hear sound, it's an ARTS problem. If you don't hear sound: 1) Did you compile in support for ALSA and OSS? You can only do one or the other safely (ALSA + OSS compatibility layer is fine, but don't enable Advanced Linux Sound Architecture and Open Sound System at the same time). 2) Try compiling your soundcard as a module (and while you're at it, compile all the others -- press "m" on each card listed in menuconfig -- could save time later, like at an upgrade). Don't forget to add it to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and modules-update! 3) See if there's any ALSA-specific information for your card If it's an ARTS problem, it's probably not configured properly. I got a similar error when I told ARTS to use ALSA. Since I only run KDE apps within GNOME (don't take it personally, I just don't like KDE -_-), it needed to be set to use ESD (Enlightened Sound Daemon -- the sound server for GNOME basically). HTH. On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 00:00:21 +0000, Shawn Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got this error message, and my sound won't work...where do I > start troubleshooting, or has anyone encountered this error and can > share their solution... > > Error artsmessage > Sound server fatal error: > cpu overload, aborting > > I'm running kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r13. > I've compiled support for my SoundBlaster Sound Card (emu10k -- or > something like that). > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Shawn > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- "Microsoft is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems." -- Linus Torvalds -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
