On 1/27/06, Rafael Barrera Oro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone! I have Via on-board sound and i cant get the audio to work. > > At first the problem was that /dev/dsp did not exist, so i loaded a > couple of modules into the kernel (mostly following www.gentoo.org > alsa-guide) after that, the error message became "could not open > /dev/dsp permission denied" so i tryied chmod a+rw /dev/sound/dsp > (also from gentoo docs) nevertheless, i stillo have no sound. For > example when using XMMS if choose to use the Alsa driver, an error > pops up telling me "failed to open audio output: Alsa plugin", so i > choose Arts which doesnt trigger any errors but there is stillo no > sound!! > > i ran "lspci |grep audio" and this is what returned > > 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) > > i had all the necessary kernel options (according to the gentoo doc) > built-in in the kernel, including AC97 so i am out of ideas. > > If anyone has any clue of what i should do, it would be greatly apprecieated. > > Thanks in advance > > Rafael > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
Try putting your user in the audio group -- Andrés -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
