[lug] Wierd audio problems nforce 2 chip set, suse 9.1

[Hugh Brown]

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 03:07, Paul Nowosielski wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  I'm hoping someone can help with this audio dilemma.
> 
> I'm running Suse 9.1 on an Nvidia nforce chipset with on-board sound.
> I have never had a problem till about a week ago ~every thing~ worked
> perfect. I could record audio, listen etc etc. 
> 
> Now when I try to open any recording software I get this error 
> 
> "direct access to the sound device not possible, No soundcard available
> or sound support not configured yet....."
> 
>  Mplayer does not play any audio now also.
> 
> But xmms plays audio fine.
> 
> I added a second soundcard (sound blaster live)  and had the same
> problems( this card worked with machine in the past).
> 
> I haven't made any major changes to hardware/software on the system
> but I do have the automatic updates setup and there have been some
> kernel upgrades recently.
> 
> Also there is no /dev/dsp but there is 
> /dev/dsp0 /dev/dsp2 and /dev/dsp3
> 
> 
> Any ideas about this be be greatly appreciated. I had to break out an
> old windoze box yesterday to perform rudimentary audio tasks :(
> 
> 


I'd start looking through the various log files in /var/log for clues.

Hugh