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Re: Audio issue

Adam Shirey wrote:

I've just reinstalled Slackware (after several failed attempts with
Debian) and everything works great except for the audio. I did the same
install as before, and I'm getting the same error message as before, I
just can't for the life of me remember how I resloved the issue. When I
go to play something in XMMS or opening the Audio Mixer, I get the
message:
I was not able to open your audio device. Please check that you have permission to open /dev/mixer and make sure 
you have sound support compiled into your kernel.

Default permissions on /dev/(mixer|dsp|audio) are all 660; I've fixed
problems similar to this by just making it 661 or 664 (not sure which
actually worked). But I changed them all to 777 and I still can't get it
to play. I even went as far as to chown them, all without any luck.

Finally, I can't cat a file into /dev/(dsp|mixer|audio) as I usually
could, and logging in as root doesn't help.

Anyone have any ideas as to why I can't get any audio playback?
If the devices exist but you still have no sound, it might be a lack of kernel support. What does "grep SOUND /usr/src/linux/.config" show you, anything useful? I've got CONFIG_SOUND=m, CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m (I use Alsa, but have the OSS module compiled anyway just in case), and CONFIG_SOUND_YMFPCI=m (again, I use the Alsa driver for this card, but have the OSS one also), and the rest are N. If they're all N, then that's probably your problem. Recompile your kernel with sound support. 

Bryan