On July 8, 2001 05:52 am, you wrote:
> > Also, I seem to have more success with KDE than Gnome, but for some odd
> > reason, KDE starts without sound for about one or two minutes before I
> > start hearing it. This is odd, because in the beginning it started with
> > its own start-up sound. Now, I hear nothing for the first minute or
> > two...why is that?
>
> You have both alsa and oss sound systems installed--remove one of them
When first time I started as user, I heard login sound when panel is geting
set. While second opening didn't give anysound. Also xmms didn't work. i
disabled arts server drom control center of KDE sound. Now still system sound
doesn't work. But xmms and xawtv works.
cat /proc/devices gives
[root@localhost lvgandhi]# cat /proc/devices
Character devices:
1 mem
2 pty
3 ttyp
4 ttyS
5 cua
7 vcs
10 misc
14 sound
29 fb
81 video_capture
128 ptm
136 pts
162 raw
Block devices:
1 ramdisk
3 ide0
9 md
22 ide1
cat /proc/modules gives
[root@localhost /proc]# cat /proc/modules
i810 68272 1
agpgart 21280 7 (autoclean)
i810_audio 14064 2
soundcore 3504 2 [i810_audio]
ac97_codec 8688 0 [i810_audio]
autofs 9232 0 (autoclean) (unused)
nls_iso8859-1 2848 2 (autoclean)
nls_cp850 3584 2 (autoclean)
vfat 9040 2 (autoclean)
fat 30720 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
supermount 32496 4 (autoclean)
tuner 4432 1 (autoclean)
tda7432 2656 1 (autoclean)
bttv 55216 0 (unused)
videodev 4512 2 [bttv]
i2c-algo-bit 7072 1 [bttv]
i2c-core 12592 0 [tuner tda7432 bttv i2c-algo-bit]
ide-scsi 7568 0
sd_mod 11048 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 86036 2 [ide-scsi sd_mod]
any explanation for this behaviour will be appreciated.
> If it is only like 30 seconds you are waiting for a timeout on /dev/dsp
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