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Also, in Slackware once you setup the alsaconf.  You need to do a 
alsactl store to save the settings.

Jay Loden wrote:

>I have had repeated problems on my debian laptop.  I had no sound (wrong 
>permissions, which I corrected).  I got it working for about a month, only 
>for it to randomly disappear yesterday upon rebooting. 
>
>When trying to configure the sound in Control Panel (KDE) I get the following 
>error: 
>
>Sound server informational message:
>Error while initializing the sound driver:
>device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)
>The sound server will continue, using the null output device 
>
>I checked and /dev/dsp does exist, it's a symlink to /dev/dsp0
>
>I'm sorta stuck on this one, because I'm not sure what's wrong.   I ran 
>alsaconf again to try and get it to re-recognize the sound card, and it did, 
>and it said it was ready to play sound,etc.  But then I tried to open 
>alsamixer, and I get: 
>
>alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
>
>Anyone have some suggestions I can try? 
>
>-Jay
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