At 21:19 11/6/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> > From: Bolívar <bolivar.de@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 2004/06/11 Fri PM 08:00:31 EDT > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: ARTS sound message! > > This is driving me nuts! Upon starting KDE, this window appear... > > Sound Server informational message: > Error while initializing the sound driver. > device: default can´t be opened for playback(no such device) > The sound server will continue, using the null output device. > > My sound card is a via82xx, been googling around, found several possible > fixes, none works. > The only fix I found, is to start the sound card detection tool and click > "test", but sometimes it works, sometimes don´t. Help!
I was having the problem you describe. Today I upgraded to kde 3.2.3 (RPMs linked to from kde.org), and the 2.6.6-1.427smp kernel (using up2date), and the problem seems to have gone away. I'm not sure whether or not doing just one of those upgrades would have solved the problem.
Well, I´ve found a unstable "way" to get around this problem. Just start kde session logged as a user instead of root. There IS chances of this message pop-up and sound not starting, but they are very slim. Like 1 to 10, or greater. Strange, but works for me....wonder why...
