On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:27:01 -0400, Allen Winter wrote: > > I had the same problem with sound going away each time I rebooted. > > So, I removed the AUDIO section from /etc/sysconf/hwconf and then > > ran kudzu as suggested above. (kudzu didn't ask me any questions at all). > > Now when system-config-soundcard fails with: > > # system-config-soundcard > > Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 > > Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined > > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > > Limits: Playback 0 - 31 > > Front Left: Playback 23 [74%] [on] > > Front Right: Playback 23 [74%] [on] > > sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': No such device > > -9 > > > So I reboot and no sound. So I run system-config-soundcard again and this time it > finds dev/dsp and I have sound. Should I expect sound to work on reboot now? > Or what am I doing wrong? Depends on what you had cut out from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and whether kudzu detected your soundcard as NEW and what you have got in /etc/modprobe.conf currently.
