Red Hat 9 Sound Blaster Live! 'no such device'

[edpatterson]

I have read the available threads on getting sound to work under Linux and either the instructions were over my head or the didn't apply to my system.

1st, I'm a newbie so be gentle.

After signing on I receive a message 'device dev/dsp can not be opened. No such device.

Needless to say I'd like to be able to use my sound card. I've tried the soundcard detector to no avail.

Thanks for any help.

Ed

[JamminJoeyB]

You may have to change the permissions on /dev/dsp

I know i had to do this under Evil Entity linux ot get sound going.

try $chmod 666 /dev/dsp

That got sound going for me.

You could also try adding your user name to the audio group.

Just throwing out ideas here. Maybe I will hit it the right answer that will get it going for you.

Also is your bios set to non PNP os? If you are running your bios as pnp os you could have problems with linux detecting your hardware correctly.

[edpatterson]

**newbie**

I can handle the chmod but audio group? Lost me on that one.

As for the pnp setting. I use a removable HDD system, slide in a drive boot to OS of the day. Will altering the pnp setting effect my XP/2000/98 configurations? Guess I could just flip it and see.


Ed

[Hayl]

windows will run fine without PnP turned on

the sound card under linux (and many pci devices) will not work with PnP turned on - guaranteed. it's your choice :)

[sploo22]

Do you know if you're using the appropriate driver? Run 'dmesg' and scan through it for any mention of your sound card.

[JamminJoeyB]

I run the same thing. I keep linux on one drive and win98 on the other.

Swap them out for the os of the day just like you. Haven't had a single problem.

If I can ever get sound working in Americas Army windows will be history.

I haven't done it becuase the chmod worked for me. Users are part of groups. usually users. So if audio is a group on your system adding you user name to that group will give you access to it.

try a google search. I'm sure it will give you the ins and outs of groups in linux.

[edpatterson]

The PnP setting did it. It was pretty wierd though. I rebooted, switched PnP OS to Off and received the same error 'no such device'. Just for grins I clicked the Play Test Sound and an alert box popped up stating the emu10k1 driver coulc not be loaded. I clicked Ok to close the alert the closed the original fails box and music came out of the speaker.

I was not able to play an MP3 but an audio CD played just fine.

Thanks for all the help.

Ed