reinstalling xinetd mixer

[Matt77]

When I installed linux mandrake 8.2 the xietd mixer worked fine. now when I boot up it says mixer failed. How do I get it to work again? Do I have to totally reinstall my system?

[mdwatts]

Are we talking about xinetd or inetd?

That is not related to the sound mixer.

Could you please provide a few more details? Exact error message etc.

[Matt77]

It is the aumix that will not install.

[mdwatts]

I've never used aumix.

Does it create a logfile or can you see any error messages in /var/log/messages?

What is the exact error message you are getting?

[Matt77]

On booting the error I receive is "Loading mixer setting error opening mixer (failed).

Also when I place a cd in the dvd player I get the error message
"file:/mnt/cdrom you do not have access rights to this location"


A long time ago I had a similar error message to my floppy drive. i tried several things and eventually I reinstalled the whole system and it worked fine. Maybe this is what I need to do again....

[mdwatts]

Perhaps aumix is looking for the settings file.

Have a look at the aumix manpage (man aumix) as it explains the .aumixrc settings file you should have in your home directory.

Can you run aumix manually? /usr/bin/aumix

[Matt77]

I am a real novice so I need help knowing where to look for aumix manual. I can get to my home directory but not sure which folder or path will get me to the manual.
I found the icon in the /user/bin/aumix and it is an exacutable application. Again I do not know how to execute this application at this location.

Thanks for your patience with me(I am a real rookie and I have enough knowledge to be dangerous!!!) I can get myself into trouble without much effort on my part. Working through this is how I learn.

[mdwatts]

Do you have .aumixrc in your home directory?

cd ~
ls -al .aumixrc

To view the aumix manpage, just type

man aumix

in a console/terminal

spacebar or pg-down to forward through the manpage and 'q' to quit.

[Matt77]

Do you have .aumixrc in your home directory? no this is not in my home directory.

I went to my main menu and tried to load aumix.... it would not load. I then tried to load kde media player and got the error message :

"Error while initalizing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (no such file or directory) The sound server will continue using the null out put device."

Does this mean that I have lost the sound driver? If this the case then where on my installation cd's would I find the driver and how would down it and install it? I am sure that it is there since it worked after I installed the system.

Thanks

Matt77

[mdwatts]

Does /dev/dsp actually exist?

ls -al /dev/dsp

If it does, then you may just need to change the permissions (using root)

chmod 660 /dev/dsp

[Matt77]

I don't think /dev/dsp exits. I was in terminal and typed ls-al/dev/dsp and got the reply no such file or directory.

Other than reinstalling everything is there other options?

Matt77

[mdwatts]

ls -al /dev/dsp (with a space between al and /dev?).

I don't know why you wouldn't have /dev/dsp.

Try creating it using

mknod c /dev/dsp 14 3

chmod 660 /dev/dsp

[Matt77]

After trying what you suggested nothing seem to work. So I decided to reinstall my system. I am sure that this will work since aumix worked previously. I was backing up my data and a new problem developed. Maybe you would address this for me. I was copying files from my home directory to a floppy using cut and paste commands. When the window " Copying files in Progress" came up my machine froze up....nothing worked the cursor would not move. I was using the KDE desktop. Two questions.

When my machine freezes up is there anything I can do other than hit the power button and power down? When I reboot it tells me my machine was not shut down cleanly and it checks everything out and fixes the problems.

Is this a bug or problem with KDE?

Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks
Matt77

[mdwatts]

Try backing up the data using commandline.

mount /mnt/floppy

cp /home/<user>/<whatever files> /mnt/floppy

When done

umount /mnt/floppy

You can try searching through the bug reports forums at www.kde.org and/or submit a bug report yourself.

[Matt77]

I reinstalled my whole system and everything works fine again. Thanks for your help and input. It added more knowledge into my learning curve. I am still going to work on the copy/paste problem with KDE but that is another battle at another time.

Matt77