[GLLUG] problems with my sound card...

Gary Holbrook gholbrook at digitalintuition.com
Mon Sep 13 15:02:44 EDT 2004


Are you using a modular kernel\what happens if you try to manually 
insert the module?
Ryan R. Matt wrote:

>To anyone who can help me:
>
>     As magically as I had sound on my machine, it no
>longer works.  I am running Mankdrake 9.2 the download
>edition; I have a 6 yr. old SoundBlaster Live!
>creative soundcard; I'm using KDE 3.1; and I have
>looked through the HowTo's and man pages to no avail. 
>When I first installed linux, I had a problem getting
>my sound to work.  I read all the documentation I
>could find to try and resolve this problem and nothing
>seemed to work, then one day I just re-tried
>everything I read that claimed to fix it again and if
>finally worked.  Yesterday, my sound stopped working. 
>I have even triedto update the driver but to no avail,
>I still don't have any sound.  Rather, I receive this
>dialog box that says /dev/dsp cannot be opened,
>continue to use null output device.  
>
>     If anyone has any advice as to what I should do,
>that would be greatly appreciated.
>
>     Thank you for your patience with a linux newbie
>and you assitance.
>
>~Ryan
>
>
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