Re: Sound card stopped working after upgrading from Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4



On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:57:20 -0800, Jeff Silverman wrote:

> I upgraded my machine from Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4 and the sounds
> card has stopped working.
>
> When I start X-windows (I'm running KDE 3.4.2-0.fc3.2 Red Hat), I get an
> error message "Sound server informational message: Error while
> initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such
> file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output
> device."
>
> And sure enough there is no /dev/dsp there.

Try /sbin/modprobe snd-via82xx. Check if dmesg says anything after that.
Also consider www.google.com - much faster than me.
.



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