[ale] sound disappeared (debian)

[James Sumners]

Did you install 'udev'?

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:00:14 -0500
Jay Loden <jloden at toughguy.net> wrote:

> I have had repeated problems on my debian laptop.  I had no sound (wrong 
> permissions, which I corrected).  I got it working for about a month, only 
> for it to randomly disappear yesterday upon rebooting. 
> 
> When trying to configure the sound in Control Panel (KDE) I get the following 
> error: 
> 
> Sound server informational message:
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)
> The sound server will continue, using the null output device 
> 
> I checked and /dev/dsp does exist, it's a symlink to /dev/dsp0
> 
> I'm sorta stuck on this one, because I'm not sure what's wrong.   I ran 
> alsaconf again to try and get it to re-recognize the sound card, and it did, 
> and it said it was ready to play sound,etc.  But then I tried to open 
> alsamixer, and I get: 
> 
> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
> 
> Anyone have some suggestions I can try? 


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