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Sound Card Woes (SiS card again)

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voidmain:
I would welcome your normal input if we were on the "Linux Eradication Society" site, but since we're not...

voidmain:
Calum, check this out:
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2050

Calum:

quote:Just curious Calum. What are the permissions on /dev/dsp?
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There is no /dev/dsp , there is a /dev/sound which is a directory with permissions 'rwxr-xr-x', and a /dev/snd with the same permissions. It contains eight character special files called "controlC0" to "controlC7". All have permissions of 'rw-------'. Is this bad? should i change those? i see they are not writable except by the owner, and as you say, the owner is root. Does this mean only root can currently listen to sounds?
 
quote:Also, what is the output from the commands "/sbin/lspci" and "cat /proc/devices"?
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That
threw me for a bit! lspci is actually in /usr/bin, to my confusement! Anyway, here's the output of lspci:

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And here's the output of cat /proc/devices:
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To me, this is Greek, hope you understand it, and thanks for taking the time...

i haven't got round to doing any fiddling yet, from any of the sites mentioned above, i can't while i'm on the internet, as my modem doesn't work yet! catch 22!

voidmain:
It appears that the kernel recognizes your sound card just fine.

If the sound daemon runs as root then anyone should be able to play sound, however if it does not then you will want to change those permissions (won't hurt to change them either way). Just do a "chmod a+rw /dev/snd" etc on each of the sound devices (su to root first). But I think you should have a dsp device unless something has changed recently. Also, if you are using KDE, did you check in the Control Center->Sound section to make sure the sound server is enabled? And that you have the volume turned up in the mixer (I'm sure you've done that part). On my KDE under Sound Server I have these checked:

- Start aRts soundserver on KDE startup
- Run soundserver with realtime priority
- Autosuspend if idle for 60 seconds


And I use "kmix" to adjust the volumes.

Last thing.  Did you look at the link from the Mandrake web site I sent you?  It looks like it is a similar problem that you have and a simple resolution.

And to create the /dev/dsp just to see if that is the problem type this as root:

mknod -m a=rw /dev/dsp c 14 3

[ May 08, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

creedon:
Yeah, VoidMain's right; ALWAYS check the volume settings on your mixer- a lot of them are set to the lowest level by default.
Don't feel bad about your sound problems; I'm using LibraNet 2.0 (based on Debian "Woody"), and sound works just fine in KDE 2.2.2, XFCE. IceWM,and BlackBox, but when I start Gnome 1.4, all I get is a 1 second burst of white noise, then silence, then the white noise again, over and over- it drives me NUTS; I'll figure it out eventually- it's really no big deal; I just don't use Gnome all that often.  Ain't Linux GREAT!?!?!?

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