On Monday 24 June 2002 18:52, you wrote: > John Michael Drouhard wrote: > >Hi all! > >I have an aureal vortex 2 soundcard, and have installed the drivers > > provided at sourceforge.net. I have tried many times to get sound out of > > computer, but it just won't happen. I have tried changing the setting in > > Sound Server under KDE Control Center. When I try to force it to use > > ALSA, it comes up with this message: > > > >----------- > > > >Sound Server informational message: > > > >Error while initializing the sound driver: > >device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Invalid argument) > > > >The sound server will continue, using the null output device. > > > >----------- > > > >Sound hasn't come out at all yet, so any help would be greatly > > appreciated!! > > > >Other comp specs: > > > >Motherboard: VIA 503+ > >K-6 III+ 450 running at 500 MHz > >Sound Card: Aureal Vortex2 > >Video card: TNT2 32MB > >Network card: Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI Card > >384 MB Memory > > > >1 generic cd reader > >1 Samsung 8x8x32 CD-RW > >1 Floppy > >1 10 GB WD Harddrive > >1 40 GB Maxtor Harddrive > >Mandrake Linux 8.2 with the standard kernel for this distro. Running in > > dual boot mode with Windows 98. > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > Ummm three things... > > 1. Use a nopentium in the install and in the appernd lines of the boot. > Some programs behave differently between the two because there is a > tiny difference in paging between the k6 and the Pentium. See the 8.2 > errata page for details. > > 2. If your vortex is a Dell pull, it will work only with Dell drivers, > of which there are none for linux. There were special OEM runs just for > Dell. This would also be true for Windows so if you can get sound out > of this in windows, you know you have a card compatible with the driver. > I should also mention that the binary core of this driver is very > closed source and is getting harder and harder for the project to > support for new linux distros . > > 3. The informational message about /dev/dsp means your sound card is > NOT being recognized and set up automatically. You need to change some > parameters in /etc/devfsd.conf for this to happen. Fortunately there > are two manpages devfsd and devfsd.conf and the latter has a useful > example for winmodem drivers, which isn't too far off from this > winsoundcard. > > Civileme
I tried the nopentium suggestion, but I'm not sure if it worked. When I started KDE, it still gave me the dsp error. Is there a way to test to see if the nopentium option is running? Thanks John Michael Drouhard
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