have to run sndconfig after every boot...

[CiscoKid]

why do I have to do this. First of all I am running Mandrake 8.1. I have an isa soundblaster 16, that worked fine in 8.0.

I got it installed, but with no sound. I ran sndconfig, and got the an "error opening /dev/audio". Sure enough, there was no dev/audio....but i did have a /dev/sound/audio.

So I made a symbolic link to it, sndconfig worked fine, so I placed it in rc.local. But I have to run sndconfig after I boot up every time.

The weird thing is...xmms and some games have sound, but KDE system sounds and some other games won't have sound unless I run sndconfig.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[CiscoKid]

Oh yeah, the soundserver is up and running and I know it's linux so I really don't have to reboot anyway, but it still annoys me :p

[error27]

is /dev/sound/audio a symlink to /dev/dsp ?

click on xmms and type ctrl-p. What is the output pluggin? Is it esd?

I think kde uses arts. (artsd).

I don't think you can use esd and arts at the same time.

You can download arts output plugins for xmms if you want.

but that still doesn't answer your question... maybe start a kde sound program from a kterm and it will print out some sort of error message that can help us.

[CiscoKid]

Ok, thanks a lot!! I ran chromium in a terminal and got a /dev/dsp error. I made another sym link and it works fine now.

My only questions is....."Why do I have to do this?"

it just doesn't make sense. Maybe I have something configured wrong somewhere :eek:

got any suggestions?

linux can be a bear sometimes, but I LOVE IT!!