Do you have the alsa-utils package installed? I had a similar problem and installing the alsa-utils package cleared it right up.
Good Luck, James On Monday 23 February 2004 09:58 pm, Udo Hoerhold wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed KDE 3.2 on a Debian stable system (with a few packages from > testing and a 2.6.3 kernel), and sound isn't working. With the default > settings for "Sound System" in Control Center, I don't get any message at > all, just no sound. If I specify ALSA as the audio device, and /dev/dsp as > the device location, I get the message: > > device: /dev/dsp can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory) > > ALSA is compiled into the kernel. I have i8x0 audio, which I've tried > compiled in, and as a module. ls -al /dev/dsp gives me: > > crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp > > Does anyone know what this problem might be? > > Thanks, > > Udo Hoerhold
