[linux-help] Re: Sound on laptop

["Michael Osten" <mosten@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Bottorff" <prenzl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 4:28 AM
Subject: [linux-help] Re: Sound on laptop


>
>
> > > I've got RH8 on my Dell Latitude CP M233XT but I get an error
> > right as the
> > > desktop comes up:
> > >
> > > "Error while initializing sound driver. device /dev/dsp can't
> > be opened (no
> > > such device). The sound server will continue using the null
> > output device."
> > >
> > > Any ideas how to get sound working again?
> >
>
> > Have you loaded you sound modules?
> How would I do that? How would I know if they were loaded? I plead
> ignorance....
>
> Lb
>
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[mosten@speedy mosten]$ /sbin/lsmod | more

Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: PF
lp                      6944   0 (autoclean) (unused)
floppy                 50172   0 (autoclean)
vmnet                  23040   7
parport_pc             21864   1
parport                25344   1 [lp parport_pc]
vmmon                  21396   5
via82cxxx_audio        19288   0
uart401                 6596   0 [via82cxxx_audio]
ac97_codec             10056   0 [via82cxxx_audio]
sound                  58348   0 [via82cxxx_audio uart401]
soundcore               4100   4 [via82cxxx_audio sound]
nfsd                   67632   8 (autoclean)
lockd                  47504   1 (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc                 67964   1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
af_packet              14376   2 (autoclean)
8139too                15496   1 (autoclean)
mii                     2368   0 (autoclean) [8139too]
usb-uhci               22924   0 (unused)
usbcore                61120   1 [usb-uhci]
rtc                     7324   1 (autoclean)


modules are loaded by Redhat in the /etc/modules.conf file.  Do a google
search for you laptop model and "/etc/modules.conf", you should be able to
find the corrent lines.

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