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04-Dec-2007, 12:36 AM #1
Sound card not working in PCLinuxOS 2007
Hello,

As you probably read in my other, quite happy post about getting internet to work, I just installed PCLinuxOS and installed the Windows Driver using Ndiswrapper, but, the sound isn't working at all right now, and it would be pretty awesome if I could get that little problem fixed as well.

The problem is, see, I'm a big noobie in Linux, so I'm not real sure how to find out what kind of sound card I have. I'm sorry about this. Just tell me what commands to use....

Well, at least I can tell you what the error message is when I boot up:

Sound Server Informational Message
Error while initializing the sound driver:
Device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

Thanks for any and all help in advance!
Regards,
GNOME32
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04-Dec-2007, 08:57 AM #2
Try KDE control center > sound, multimedia > sound system - and look around in there. Make sure auto detect is on, see if your sound card is listed, maybe try another card...

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05-Dec-2007, 12:30 AM #3
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Try KDE control center > sound, multimedia > sound system - and look around in there. Make sure auto detect is on, see if your sound card is listed, maybe try another card...

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I'd first like to know what command(s) to run in the shell to find out what my sound card is.
Thanks!
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06-Dec-2007, 07:22 AM #4
The KDE Info centre, tells you all kinds of stuff about devices, unfortunately it's one of those stoopid windows with copy disabled, so I can't show you what it shows me.

Command Line

lsmod : tells you what kernel modules were loaded
dmesg > ~/boot.log : creates a log of kernel messages, do it just after power up

If there's nothing shown that looks like your Sound Card, then it needs configuring, there should be a tool to help you do that.

Normally, I have configure sound, in an Administration module (provided by Distro). The integrated sound chips seem to work fine, on my boxen, as does detection of Sound Blaster type PCI cards. I think the ALSA AC97 module is called snd_hda_intel but I'm not 100% sure.
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07-Dec-2007, 07:21 PM #5
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I'd first like to know what command(s) to run in the shell to find out what my sound card is.
Thanks!
There is an easier way.
Enter the control center via the wrench and screwdriver button on the task bar.

Click on the Hardware tab in the column on the left.

On the new screen to the right, at the very top left of it, "Look at and configure the hardware".

Click on that and it will open a new window with hardware on the left which you click on to see info about on the right.

Heres mine for example:

Identification
Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.

Description: IXP400 AC'97 Audio Controller

Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO

Connection
Bus: PCI

Bus PCI #: 0

PCI device #: 20

PCI function #: 5

Vendor ID: 0x1002

Device ID: 0x4370

Sub vendor ID: 0x103c

Sub device ID: 0x2a25

Driver
Module: snd-atiixp
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