Please help a newbie get sound...

slickben24 · n00b Joined: 08 May 2005 Posts: 38

Hello, this is my first experience with gentoo, and ive finally gotten kde up and running. yay! but now, whenever i boot, i get this message from kde:
error while initializing sound driver. device /dev/dsp can't be opened (no such device) the sound server will continue, using null output device.
what does this mean? how can i fix it? ive searched the forums and google, but im having difficulty understand what this means.
thanks!
ben

John-Boy · Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 5:09 am Post subject:

Is this any help ?

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=198478&highlight=sound+kde+server
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mobymac · Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 5:49 am Post subject:

try this too:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml

upalom00 · Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 5:54 am Post subject:

Also, make sure you are included in the audio group.

slickben24 · n00b Joined: 08 May 2005 Posts: 38

I thought I had Alsa configured correctly, but following that howto fixed it. Thanks guys.

mobymac · Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 2:39 am Post subject:

glad you got it working. don't forget to put [solved] in your original subject line.