Re: [gentoo-user] [Resolved] Absolutely no sound whatsoever after latest emerge update

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 09:47:27PM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote
>   
>> why do you guys make it more complicated as it is?!
>>
>> Just write in the shell:
>>
>> rc-update add alsasound default
>>     
>
>   I *DO* have alsasound in my default.  Since you obviously have not
> read the URL I pointed to, here is a partial quote...
>
>   
>> I stopped esound (esd) and alsasound systems (this is under Gentoo).
>> Upon restarting the alsasound system, the low level sound driver
>> modules (snd_intel8x0m, snd_intel8x0, snd_ac97_codec, ac97_bus),
>> perhaps others, got loaded and they were not loaded when the "unable
>> to open slave" message was being generated.  Subsequently mplayer
>> was able to load and play audio tracks.
>>
>> So this message may be associated with hardware level drivers being
>> unavailable for some reason.
>>     
>
>   The problem seems to be a dependancy on some resource that is not
> available early on in the boot process.  Re-starting the alsasound
> daemon later on works around that problem.
>
>   

This may be waaay off here, do you have that parallel start up thing 
turned on?  You know, where multiple services can be started at the same 
time without waiting for the startup to complete.  I read somewhere a 
while back where some were having various trouble but not lately.  If 
you do, may want to try it with it turned off and see if that helps.

Just something to think about just in case.

Dale

:-)  :-)